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NEWS ABOUT: Digg

Digg stories: 9 news summaries

(Newser) - Silicon Valley’s tastemakers are trading coffee for the soothing sensation of fine tea, reports Wired. The same tech giants who helped fuel the Starbucks craze are flocking to expensive teas, and tea lounges are popping up in the Bay Area to meet the demand. “It’s the new... More »

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Silicon Valley • Starbucks • coffee • Digg • tea • Kevin Rose • Peet's Coffee • trend

Plane Crash Tweets Help Twitter Overtake Digg 

Microblogging site gets the edge in market share for first time since launch

Jan 21, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Twitter traffic has overtaken Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch, Hitwise reports. The newcomer edged up to #84 last week—one spot above Digg—after the US Airways crash spawned a huge number of updates. A photo of the scene taken by a Twitter user on... More »

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Internet • Digg • website • web traffic • Twitter • Hudson crash

Investors
Fund Big Digg Expansion

Social news site raises $28M, plans to double staff, go global

Sep 24, 08 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million to fund an aggressive expansion and fend off rumors it will be sold, IDG News Service reports. The 4-year-old site, which allows readers to rank stories, plans to double its staff to 150, revamp its features, and expand internationally. The move... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Digg • Reddit • StumbleUpon

Politics Battles Tech for Soul
of Digg

Election pulls big traffic —and big discontent among nerderati

May 13, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - With election season in full swing, the political junkies have come for Digg.com, making Hillary, Barack, et. al. fixtures on the social news site. That’s been great for traffic, but it’s also angered the tech nerd early adopters who made Digg a success, CNET reports. At a... More »

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social networking • politics • Web 2.0 • Digg • news

Quiet on Microsoft, Yahoo Teases Debut of Digg Rival

Social news aggregator is Yahoo's latest product launch

Feb 25, 08 3:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo’s top execs were tight-lipped on the Microsoft buyout bid in addresses to an online ad conference today, but hinted at a new service set to debut this week which may be Yahoo Buzz, the company’s reported social news aggregator, writes cNet. Jerry Yang said he had been... More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • Digg • Jerry Yang • Sue Decker

Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

Tech blog founder says social news sites too easily manipulated

Jan 30, 08 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times. “What that is really demonstrating is that you are... More »

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Web 2.0 • Digg • online news • Ron Paul • Slashdot

Best Rock Movies of All Time

Blender comes up with its list of the top 100, starting with Spinal Tap.

Jan 13, 08 2:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Grab a blanket and some popcorn and settle in with Blender's best rock and roll movies of all time:
  1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  2. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  3. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
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music • Digg • list • rock and roll • South Park • This Is Spinal Tap • Saturday Night Fever • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster • Purple Rain • Almost Famous • The Blues Brothers • 24 Hour Party People • The Last Waltz • movies

25 Essential Websites

Email? Shopping? News? Time picks the destinations you just can't live without 

Aug 20, 07 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - You find a restaurant on Citysearch, buy movie tickets on Fandango, and then go home and Google the guy you shared a cab with. Was there a time before the Internet? Here are the first 10 of Time's 25 can't-live-without websites:
  1. Amazon.com
  2. BBC.co.uk
  3. Citysearch.com
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Google • Internet • ESPN • eBay • BBC • Digg • Facebook • list • Craigslist • website • Citysearch.com • Del.icio.us • Amazon.com

Users Revolt After Digg
Censors DVD Hackers

User-generated site pulls code,
loses cred, reverses course

May 2, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web 2.0 blogs are rushing to declare Digg dead, after a night in which the site's main page was saturated with its own obituaries. The web's most popular user-generated news site prompted a mutiny by removing posts revealing how to crack encrypted DVDs and HDs. Digg said the illegal... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • Digg • news • online news • Kevin Rose • blog

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