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Digg Friends — Over the last (almost) two years we have learned a lot about the user base and how to defend digg from spam, artificial diggs, and digg fraud. It's a battle we will continue to fight and one that we don't take lightly. — That said, today we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories.
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Digg the rigged? A closer look at Digg's democratic model — Earlier this evening (Sept. 5) I decied to take a glance at Digg's frontpage. I do this fairly regularly, as do many other thousands of people. — Upon checking the frontpage, I immediately noticed a common element in several stories …
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Digg's Top User Says Goodbye — Mark this day on your calendar, folks. This is the day when the division between Digg's top 100 users and the other 499,900 users was pushed far enough for Kevin Rose to actually weigh in on the issue. The result? User p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 has said goodbye to Digg.
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Mathew Ingram
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PS3 cut in half, delay in Europe: Our take — Covering PS3 news is anathema to some of our readers, but we must comment on Sony's surprise announcements today. In case you haven't heard, Sony set us up the bomb today that they will ship a worldwide total of 500,000 PS3s at launch, and only in the US and Japan at that.
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Playstation 3 launch misfire: Europe delayed to March '07, 500k total for Japan & US — If you were planning on buying the Playstation 3 for gaming or as a "cheap" Blu-ray player you may want to get in line now for the November 17th launch — not so fast Europe.
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Facebook's Feeds — The other morning my oldest daughter Jessica, a Facebook fan, said to me, "Dad one of the great things about Facebook is that they are constantly adding cool new things". That's one of the things I believe is critical to do with web apps/services - always add new stuff, surprise your user base.
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Facebook Signs Deal With Microsoft to Use Ads From MSN Adcenter & Facebook.com Users Riot Over New Features — There is a thread on WMW talking about an advertising deal between Facebook and Myspace that will allow those using MSN Adcenter in the future to reach the audience on Facebook.
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Six Apart acquires Rojo Networks — I'm very happy to announce that Six Apart has acquired Rojo Networks. As many of you know, Rojo runs the popular Rojo and Nooz services. — Not only are we excited to be affiliated with Rojo and Nooz, we are thrilled about the people and technologies that join Six Apart through this acquisition.
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The Ultimate Blog Post — While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks. — "Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for …
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Wireless zone goes live in downtown Toronto — The City of Toronto launched its own Wi-Fi network in the downtown financial district Wednesday, allowing users to tap into the largest such network in Canada and possibly one of the cheapest. — "This is an historic day for Toronto …
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YouTube's Potential Revenue — I heard last week from a pretty good source that YouTube is serving 100 million videos per day. Say what you will about YouTube's content (unlicensed, kids falling of skateboards, etc), that's a huge number. And it got me thinking about how much revenue could be extracted from such an audience.
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Leak, Inquiry and Resignation Rock a Boardroom — As corporate intrigue goes, it is hard to beat this: an uproar over news leaks from the boardroom, a cloak-and-dagger investigation, allegations of spying and double-dealing, and a clash involving some of Silicon Valley's best-known names …
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Microsoft executive heads to Amazon.com — A veteran Microsoft Corp. executive who led the development of Windows Vista, the delayed update to the company's biggest product, is leaving to join Amazon.com. — Brian Valentine, senior vice president in Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division …
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Playing Nintendo v24 - Korea Needs a Reggie-lution — Go to any video game store in Korea and you're bound to hear the name 'Mario' within a matter of minutes. Mothers come in looking for gifts for their kids, and they usually don't ask for Final Fantasy, Tekken, or even Everybody's Golf …
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Really Free Software — Mark Shuttleworth is rich enough to cause some havoc in the feel-good Linux community. In January 2000, at the peak of the dot-com bubble, Shuttleworth sold his South African security software firm, Thawte, to VeriSign for $700 million in stock.
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FTC Closes Door on Spyware Operation — An operation that placed spyware on consumers' computers in violation of federal laws will give up more than $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. — Under a stipulated final judgment and order, the defendants are permanently prohibited …
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Pantech's feature-packed IM-U410 multimedia phone — If for some reason we lived in a world without highly-configurable, QWERTY-fied smartphones, our next choice on the cellphone tip would be a feature-packed multimedia handset, and Pantech has delivered just that with its new IM-U140.
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Watching Katie Couric Live Online — Finally; CBSNews.com Traffic Doubled For Debut — It took a couple of tries including an odd warning screen but I finally saw the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in live simulcast tonight. Nothing earth shattering but good video quality …
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Frank Barnako
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ChangeEverything makes goal sharing a quiet advertisement — ChangeEverything.ca is a Canadian 43Things clone that will launch this month and is provided by the largest credit union in the country. Sixty year old Vancity credit union won't be monetizing ChangeEverything …
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Social Signal blogs
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Is Gartner stooping to new lows to boost event attendance? — Ever since attending my first Gartner Symposium (a little less than a month after 9/11/01.... my flights were empty), I've been subject to a barrage of emails and snail-mails from Gartner's marketing department inviting me to attend …