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Digg popularity rankings exposed by Qliktech

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QlikTech announced the availability of “Dugg Analyzer,” a free tool that analyzes traffic and postings on Digg, providing new transparency in determining how web content is popularized and what sources feed the site.

Based on QlikTech’s award-winning analysis solution, QlikView’s Dugg Analyzer provides instant visual insight by category, subject, source, reporter and any other dimension. The QlikView
application can be viewed at

Analysis using Digg Dugg shows that YouTube was the most linked to site on Digg, having had more than 10 times as many front-page stories as the next most popular video site until August 2007. Since then, however, there has been a sudden drop in the number of YouTube stories reaching the front page. YouTube news is now similar in popularity to other video sites.

QlikView was able to easily look at Digg data and determine that a small minority of people – 100 – is responsible for 40% of content that thousands see and read. This is down from a previously reported 56% of most popular content in 2006.

Originally posted on January 24, 2008 @ 11:47 am

Digg algorithm update makes the community go loco

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digg revoltHey Mixx get this! The Digg community is up in arms over the recent algorithm tweaking implemented by the social bookmarking giant. The bone of contention is that users need to get a lot more votes before they can get on the front page.

Digg founder Kevin Rose confirmed the algo changes to “give each person a fair chance of getting their submission promoted to the home page”. Unfortunately, the social mob did not see it his way. Some of the users formed a special site named Revoltnation to encourage other Digg users to join the cause. The following are the list of the main charges against Digg:

  1. Lack of communication and disregard for the Digg community
  2. Unexplained and unacknowledged banning of top users
  3. Lack of transparency – Digg only shows you the stories that people have dugg, but not the ones that are buried.
  4. The auto-bury list – For months, dozens of sites have been on an auto-bury list, often with no explanation whatsoever.
  5. Repeated and flagrant disrespect of its top users

Though I’m not a heavy Digg user, these things can be settled easily if only the people behind this popular site shared their plans to the Digg community. Since it is powered by user-generated contents, they owe their success to the community. It is but proper to hear the voices of the people before implementing some major changes.

More details at search engine land

Originally posted on January 24, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

The Digg Reel compiles the most dugg videos weekly

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The Digg Reel is a new weekly Internet TV show that compiles the most popular videos submitted to the ultra-popular social bookmarking site Digg.com. It is a real time saver for many video fanatics for there is no need to watch every popular video and read hundreds of comments.

Created by Revision3, it shows 10 to 15 minutes of the most dugg video clips for the week, the best comments from the Digg community and behind the scenes about the creator of the videos.

“There is so much user-generated and other video on the Web and so much of it is not very good. It’s great to have the community select it. In 15 minutes, you’re going to be able to be completely updated on all the top videos each week that the Internet is buzzing about,” said Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 Corp.

Via Computerworld

Originally posted on January 17, 2008 @ 8:02 am

Digg dogged by controversies

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digg.gifContent-sharing site Digg is plagued with controversies and denials these days. Despite its recent discussions with investment bank Allen & Co, Digg CEO Jay Adelson has insisted the company is not for sale anytime soon. Moreover, he turned down the speculations that the company will go public next year.

Adelson also downplayed its rumored acquisition plans for Spanish-language content-sharing site Menéame and another social voting platform coRank, saying they do not have “large cash pool to ‘go and make crazy acquisitions’ with.”

Well, this is not really a denial game for Adelson. He has revealed to BusinessWeek the general direction of Digg in 2008 – international expansion and more new features designed for better customization and personalization.

Some of these new features include alerts for new stories preferred by users, rating system similar to eBay’s, and “story suggest” function which recommends articles similar to what a user has recently read or rated.

Originally posted on December 28, 2007 @ 9:08 am

Digg adds 50 new features

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digg.jpgDigg, a popular social networking Website, has added 50 new features, including a revamp of user profiles from the ground up – making it easy for you to share your favorite Digg stories with friends.

In line with this, Digg users are encourage to revisit the revised Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Highlights include:

  • Digg will notify you via email when certain activities happen, such as when someone adds you as a friend or a story you submit becomes popular. You can control what emails you want to receive in the Email Settings section of your Digg User Profile.
  • You can easily find your friends’ Profiles on Digg by searching for them by their email address. If you don’t want to enable others to search for your Digg Profile by your email address, or if you want to manage what personal information to display in your Digg Profile, you can reflect this in your Privacy Settings.

For complete details, visit Digg the Blog.

Originally posted on September 20, 2007 @ 9:53 am