Digg has been criticized recently for having a small group of extremely active users who exert a significant amount of influence over which submissions get onto the digg homepage. I was skimming through each of Digg’s categories today to see which articles were making the homepage, and I noticed a disturbing pattern. [...]

Ajay, who’s site I discovered via MyBlogLog community has written up a brief guide to StumbleUpon. If you haven’t come across StumbleUpon, it’s a site that displays a random site to its users based upon what other viewers liked or rated.
I’m not quite sure how StumbleUpon calculates what sites to display, but Ajay has [...]

Harrison Tang has just emailed me about Spokeo, a new Web 2.0 project he’s put together with some of his roommates from Stanford. Spokeo is a social network aggregator that combines MySpace, LiveJournal, Flickr, Youtube, and 20 other social networks together:
It allows members to track friends’ blogs, photos, and videos in a constantly updated [...]

The Guardian newspaper started an experiment today that is just asking for trouble in my view.  They’ve setup a shared del.icio.us account that will allow users to post links directly to the Guardian website.
This is definitely going to be abused by spammers, as the only way they can remove a link is after it has [...]

The Internet can be a fickle beast. One day you can be the latest up and coming site, and the next a site that nobody uses. Seeking Alpha have put together a list of the worst internet acquistions ever, and it’s amazing how many names are on there who were once the darlings [...]