Posts Tagged ‘digg’
September 25th, 2009
Google Sidewiki has been launched. As per most things Google it is simple and painless to install and is free to use. All you need to do is download and install Google Toolbar with Sidewiki and then it is simple to add and read comments on every Web Page.
What is Sidewiki
Sidewiki shows comments by others about the Web Page you are viewing. It is also very quick and simple to add a comment yourself. Say for example I am reading a page about ‘Management by Objectives’, I can add a quick comment of my own or can read what others have said about that particular page. Google ranks comments in Sidewiki according to their own mystical algorithm as to where they appear in the hierarchy of comments. Sidewiki effectively adds Web 2.0 very simply to every Web Page.
The Good of Sidewiki
If I were Digg, Propeller or one of the many other sharing sites I’d be very worried about Sidewiki. Sidewiki makes commenting on Pages much more simple in that the commenter no longer has to go to a third party site (such as Digg) to comment. The comments are also shown in a relevance order by Google in Sidewiki which beats the time-sorted comments of the social media sites. Google has always been good at making the Web faster and Sidewiki makes commenting much quicker.
The Bad of Sidewiki
No voting. Sometimes, instead of commenting, one wants to vote (either for or against) a Web Page (yes, I’m aware that voting is generally manipulated and is not representative). Sidewiki doesn’t have a voting mechanism but hopefully this is not too far off. Also, it would be nice to be able to search within the comments for a particular page.
Sidewiki Possibilities
The possibilities are absolutely huge. First and foremost Google is attaining vast additional information about each Web Page through comments. No longer is a Web Page just the information provided by the author but now the Page is about the static content and the comments combined (blogs are good for comments however comments are often moderated as opposed to Sitewiki which are not moderated). Google will be far more able to understand what a Page is really about which will enhance their search capabilities.
Google Twitter (microblog): Sidewiki, once searchable, and advanced could very easily become a Google version of Twitter. Google has been moving towards real time indexing for a long time and Sidewiki provides a giant leap towards this possibility. Add in the ability for commenters to interact in a Twitter like fashion then Google has a real Twitter competitor.
Sidewiki is a winner and deserves to do very well.
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June 2nd, 2009
I’m an avid consumer of all sorts of material out there in Surfers Paradise (not the beautiful destination in Queensland, Australia but rather the Web). I’m also a frequent publisher and contributor of material. I therefore offer a list of five ethics that will take Web surfers very little time however will help content providers immensely.
You see, there is so much great material out there on the web whether text, video, podcasts, images etc. that so many billions of us view each day and some sort of feedback to the content providers assists them to understand if anyone is finding the information useful or interesting. So here is the ‘Web Surfers Ethics List’; if you view pages on Read the rest of this entry »
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March 24th, 2009
A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so popular that the originating website cannot handle the traffic sent from digg.
Certainly one of the criticisms of the rise of sharing sites such as digg has been that posts (articles) from blogs which are controversial or sensationalist tend to gain more votes (and visits) than sites which are objective. Some sharing sites such as Mixx have managed to avoid encouraging sensationalism to some degree by making posting more demanding by encouraging tagging and multiple category selection (it is very quick, for example, to submit a link to digg as opposed to Mixx).
Blogs rely on visits. fushnchups.co.nz seem to have received their fair share!
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March 24th, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled ‘Spread the News’, it which several of the social bookmarking and sharing sites were named and discussed. Overall the article is a good introduction to a few of the bookmarking and sharing services however I have this to add;
- None of the sites mentioned are particularly good for Australian (or New Zealand) content. There is certainly an opportunity for an Australian/New Zealand specific site.
- The sentence ‘they [digg etc.] return the favor by driving large amounts of traffic back to the content provider’s site’ is ambitious. Certainly digg, reddit and the others may drive significant traffic to the content site but this is rare and is dependent on users of digg etc. clicking on the link to the content provider’s site within digg etc.
- The author of the article, Kaufman, is correct in that the prime differentiating factors are the ‘people who use them and their sources’; Digg, for example is very simple to use however there is a lot of duplicate and often self promoting content because it is so simple to submit links. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: addthis, digg, mixx, reddit, sharethis, Social Media, social networking, web, web 2.0 | 
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February 21st, 2009
In the past week ShareThis has released data showing their most popular Sharing Services during January 2009. The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis is extremely popular:
- Email is by far most popular sharing service getting 57%.
- Facebook is the second most popular sharing service at 21%
- Digg has dropped significantly in popularity to 2%
AddThis used to provide similar data but unfortunately has ceased to provide this information. Thanks to Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: addthis, digg, email, facebook, mixx, myspace, sharethis, stumbleupon, technorati |
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