Royal HeHe2-ness!

Despite all it’s faults and slip-ups, I absolutely love Digg. It has provided me great content, some inspiring, some funny, and others downright outrageous! But as any one would tell you, any social network is only as good as it’s users, and Digg doesn’t seem to be lacking on those. However, any great digger [...]

I recently wrote a blog post about Mixx’s new breaking news feature, which basically gives Mixx super users (SuperMixxers) the ability to flag a certain submission as “breaking”, two flag takes the story to the more prominent Breaking section on the site, giving it more exposure. On paper that sounds just perfect, but since I [...]

I mean it casts doubt in your heart, there is a tiny possibility that anything you read or hear is a total bullocks! The whole intertubes just turns into one big circus! I don’t know what this is, either Digg went apeshit or another Fools Day joke :S. Hell even this might be “shopped” [...]

Social news websites are all the rave these days on web land, the basic idea is that users submit their news stories and then the community votes up or down. While such sites provide you with new and fresh content daily, but when it comes to breaking news it royally fails. For example, this year’s [...]

I have written a guest post over at Polishlinux on howto get the most out of social media on your Ubuntu box. That’s my first guest blog! W00T!
Sometimes I get the feeling that Web 2.0 is just too fancy for Linux, loads of tools, websites, and apps are being developed without taking Linux users into [...]

Digg went down today! But that’s not what really intrigued me. Digg had a “We’ll Be Back Shortly” page with a recommended website from each staff member, but if you look closer, you will also see the Digg logo on the top and what seemingly is a server and a pixelated Debian logo!! This [...]

While stumbling today, I stumbled upon a blog touting a new “blog and get paid” website called Snapbomb which apparently has been creating some buzz. While the idea is definitely not novel, there are a lot of blog marketing websites out there. But hey it’s my first crack at something like this! And so [...]

Problogger is currently running a poll asking “What is your favorite social bookmarking site”. I took a quick glance at the list and thought, yeah Digg is gonna win this. I clicked on Mixx and submitted my vote. But to my amazement I found that StumbleUpon is ahead of Digg by a whopping 150 votes! [...]

Just hours after Kevin Rose’s blog post today, announcing that the Digg algorithm has been changed in a way that would impact how stories were promoted. Kevin’s post, like most things on the Internet, was closely scrutinized and different blogs critical of Digg popped up everywhere. Blogs such as Brent, Bablin55, and Soshable created a [...]

Ahh Digg!! The epitome of social news! the embodiment of a community working together for a common and shared goal; wrestling content from the grips of big media and putting it in the people’s hands! Power to the people! Revolution is in the air! If Karl Marx was alive today he would’ve been proud, especially [...]