I’m a big fan of Digg, although I think it’s becoming a victim of its own size. For those of you who haven’t used Digg yet, it is a news site that allows users to control which articles make it onto the homepage by ‘digging’ them.
Digg has grown tremendously fast and is proving extremely [...]

Yahoo! yesterday acquired Del.icio.us, continuing its acquisition spree in the Web 2.0 business, which included the acquisition of Flickr. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Yahoo! make a few more acquisitions. I wondered who would pick up Del.icio.us as it has had a big ‘For Sale’ written all over it for months. [...]

Diggdot.us is a new site that combines the top stories from Digg, slashdot and del.icio.us/popular all in one website. It also removes the dupes.At first I thought what a good idea. I visit so many sites, that even with RSS feeds, it is hard to keep track of each one. But then, [...]

I’ve just discovered a new social bookmarking service where users have editorial control similar to Digg, called Reddit.
Although Reddit currently has nowhere near the levels of usage that Digg does, it does introduce some new ideas to the genre.
Reddit decides which articles are displayed on the homepage based on their popularity. Popularity is calculated [...]

As I mentioned earlier, I was ‘dugg’ for the first time yesterday and the effect on my site traffic of being dugg has been nothing but impressive. I don’t have a full days worth of stats yet but yesterday my traffic and visitors doubled even though I was only on the digg homepage for [...]