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Digg goes to Microsoft for advertising deal

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digg.jpgMicrosoft announced that it has inked a deal today with Digg.com. The deal makes Microsoft the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com.

“This move gives us an advertising partner with a larger organization and a more scalable technology platform to keep pace with Digg’s growth,” Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, said.

With this, Microsoft replaces Google’s advertising system within the site. Digg is still expected to work with Federated Media.

Originally posted on July 25, 2007 @ 5:42 pm

Mobio adds Twitter, other new widgets

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mobio.jpgMobio, a developer of mobile applications and widgets, announced today several new widgets tied into popular social media network sites. These widgets join over 50 other Web service mash-ups.

Twitter on Mobio will let others find out what users are thinking and doing in their own lives – via both text and images. Fans of Digg, a popular user-driven media and news websites, will let them view the most popular stories on the go using Digg on Mobio. With Kaboodle on Mobio, one can discover and recommend new things from fellow users with similar tastes and styles through the creation of customized shopping and wish lists.

Mobio has also released a free new widget designed to let users search for, organize and read their favorite blogs and news sites through a customizable mobile interface called My RSS.

Originally posted on July 2, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

Digg’s Kevin Rose launches Pownce

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Digg’s founder, Kevin Rose, has created a new web based sharing network called Pownce. Users can share files, messages, events, and links “really fast”. All basic features are free.

Pownce is a great way to send stuff to people you know. Add friends, then send them big files, invite them to upcoming events, share great links, and whip off a note to anyone, everyone, or just a few people.

At least to start, we’re keeping some control over registration so that we can scale the system under control. Scaling? It basically means that if a ton of people joined all at once at the beginning our site might slow down to a crawl. That would suck for everyone. So, as we get confident with the performance of the site, we’ll begin letting more and more people in.

As early as now, there are so many negative comments from readers of TechCrunch, citing it is no different from Facebook, Twitter, or from any regular email features.

I guess the big question is: Will Pownce reach the stardom enjoyed by Digg?

Originally posted on June 28, 2007 @ 1:37 pm

Digg, Facebook, reach 20M unique visitors

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Compete, an online traffic metrics provider, reports that Digg and Facebook reach the 20 million unique visitors mark for the month of May.

Digg has managed to grow their volume of visitors to about 1400 percent in a span of a year, while Facebook’s site traffic has been steadily increasing since early May since new application development platforms were launched.

Compete’s Jay Meattle noted in the company blog that about four days after YouTube hit the 20M mark, Google made a move to acquire them for 1.65B worth of Google stock. “There is certainly something magical about reaching 20 million,” he added. This means that Digg and Facebook become prime acquisition targets in the web today.

Here are Digg and Facebook’s metrics for the month of May, compared with the top social networking site, MySpace, and the largest video sharing site in the web, YouTube.

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Let’s see which company acquires what within the next few months.

Originally posted on June 21, 2007 @ 3:32 pm