Tag archive: Digg

According to StatCounter, StumbleUpon has overtaken Facebook over the last two months and makes up over 50 percent of all social traffic in the United States as of August 2011. Two years ago, StumbleUpon was the main driver for social media traffic, but lost market share to Facebook  over the last 18 months. As of August, Facebook has fallen to about 38% of all U.S. traffic while sites like Twitter, Myspace, Digg, Reddit, YouTube and others are… Read More

Mobile advertising start-up Kiip is attempting to change mobile advertising for games with a new type of ad: Offer users real-life incentives for accomplishing in-game tasks. According to TechCrunch, the new advertising model would do away with pop-ups and banner ads that have long polluted the valuable screen space on our mobile devices. The new breed of advertisers at Kiip believe the traditional type of ads deployed by networks like… Read More

There’s been mounting concern for Digg after massive staff cuts and the exit of some top-level execs. Digg has never been able to recover from the major site redesign it underwent last year, and users have been slow to return to the once-beloved site, instead defecting to competitors like Reddit. Now, the straw that may break the proverbial camel’s back is the exit of formerly impassioned founder Kevin Rose. TechCrunch noticed yesterday that… Read More

Reddit.com has hit a new high: More than 1 billion pageviews per month, served to nearly 14 million unique visitors in January, according to their Google analytics report. “Never has a single punctuation mark brought us so much joy,” writes Reddit's Mike [raldi] in a post on the official Reddit blog that appeared on the site yesterday. “There are only about 100 sites on the entire Internet that get a billion pageviews in… Read More

A trend analysis from AddThis was reported by Mashable this morning, and it reveals that a whopping 44 percent of online sharing happens on Facebook. Last year, the social networking site was the platform for 33 percent of online sharing, and its growth has only made it more dominant. And there is no clear second – following Facebook are over 300 alternative services out there (think Twitter and Digg) that are competing for a piece of the share… Read More

Digg appears to be hanging on a thread. After a year of staffing adjustments, user mutiny, and diminishing market worth, the company can't take much more. But today it did. This morning, the company announced multiple staffing changes, most notably that it will be cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff. The struggling social media site also lost its publisher and chief revenue officer, Chas Edwards, who decided to resign from the position,… Read More

You win some, you lose some. And Digg has most definitely lost some lately. After the much anticipated “new Digg” left users complaining, rioting,  and leaving in droves for Reddit back in August, the site’s recently installed new CEO has stepped up, spoken his piece, and apparently, quelled the masses. Former Amazon exec Matt Williams took the reigns in September but made his most daring move Tuesday, when he announced to the Digg community… Read More

It has been a busy month for Digg. After implementing the new Digg platform to a less than stellar response that led to several user protests (accompanied by a 33-percent drop in traffic), Digg founder and current CEO, Kevin Rose, has announced that he will be stepping down. While Rose will still remain involved with the company, Amazon executive, Matt Williams, will take over as CEO. Rose’s recent stint as CEO began just five months ago… Read More

Not everyone is happy with the newly redesigned Digg website. Unless, of course, you work at Mashable, but that is another story. In protest to what many see as at best a flaw in the new algorithm that helps select what goes on the front page, and at worst is blatant pandering to particular companies, Digg users have united to flood the site with links from rival website Reddit. The campaign has been so successful that according to the… Read More

The new Digg design launched earlier this week, and as an avid Digg fan, I was excited to see the new changes. The old Digg worked fine and had a nice mix of content from various genres such as business, offbeat, sports, politics and my favorite, technology. There were a lot of features the site had that I didn't really care for either such as following “friends”, and I didn't like the darn pop-up window that asked me to… Read More

An undercover investigation by the website AlterNet claims to have uncovered a conservative group’s organized campaign to censor Digg, the world’s largest social media organization. The coordinated censorship is responsible for “burying” several thousand articles within three to four hours of being posted. Digg.com exists as a social site, where users can submit media stories to share with other users. Many have claimed that it is a form of… Read More

DMB (DigitalMediaBuzz.com) recently checked back in with Digg, the user-driven social content brand. Things are buzzing at Digg as they prepare a new website, now in private beta, which will go public in a few weeks. Six months into Digg Ads, the company has just switched CEOs as founder Kevin Rose takes over the reins from acting CEO Jay Adelson. Rose’s first official act – killing off the DiggBar. A bold move in itself, Rose added to the… Read More

One size does not fit all for Digg, anymore. After rising to prominence as a billboard to see what had caught the eye of the masses on any given day, Digg will now undergo a radical overhaul to make it more personalized, and tied in with other social networking sites. Digg CEO Jay Adelson took the stage at Austin’s SXSW Festival on Sunday to announce the new changes, which he said were five years in the making. “Every single thing has changed,”… Read More

Traditional media outlets aren’t the only ones feeling the sting of recession. Digg, that beacon of new media, announced Thursday that it would lay off a portion of its creative team, and hire a new direct-sales team to achieve profitability. Fortunately for the San Francisco company’s small staff, CEO Jay Adelson said that Digg would only need to lay off about 10 percent of its workforce to slow the burning of its capital.… Read More

Last week it was going to happen – Google was set to purchase social news site Digg.com for $200 million. Now, according to blog TechCrunch, which broke the original story, the marriage is off again, as Google has decided not to go through with the purchase. No definitive reason was evidently given, but speculation has ranged from a clash of personalities to technological incompatabilities. There’s been talking of… Read More