Digg News & Articles

HootSuite users can extend the platform's functionality with three new apps available immediately in the App Directory: Digg, TrendSpottr and InboxQ. More apps are expected to roll out soon.

Digg popularized the social voting and bookmarking concept in the late 2000s, which brought in democratized curation of news and information. While Digg has arguably declined since its heyday, websites still feature social bookmarking, and many of these use the open-source Pligg CMS. Pligg has recently rolled out version 1.2.0, an update that introduces important security fixes and improved user management, among other features.

Web discovery site StumbleUpon (news, site) is generating more traffic for other websites than the mighty Facebook.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Don't Believe All Quotes You See Online
• Is Twitter a Traditional News Replacement?
• Facebook Serves 1/3 of All Online Ads
• Reddit Passes Digg Traffic

Lurking in Google (news, site) Labs is a new feature that could simplify how search and social concepts coincide.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Web Service StumbleUpon Hits 12 Million Users
• Flickr Embraces Google Logins
• Study: Social Networking Isn't Killing In Person Social Lives
• When Are Facebook Users Actively Engaged?

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Who 'Owns' A Twitter Account: Employer or Employee?
• The Top Engaged Brands in Social Media
• Digg Cuts Staff, Re-Focuses
• Foursquare Launches Badges To Encourage Voting

The overwhelming popularity of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare have overshadowed user-rated news aggregators and social bookmarking sites liked Reddit and Digg. As a result it has forced them back to the drawing board in an effort to revitalize and inspire users.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Foursquare Turning Cheaters Down
• Facebook Acquires Divvyshot..Better Albums Coming
• Digg CEO Shakeup: Immediate Actions Taken
• Community Pages Come To Facebook

One of the most important steps to take before speaking to your customers through your web content is learning what they want, and what opinions they have about you and your competition.

But what if you don’t have the budget to pay for expensive research data or conduct focus groups? Targeted market surveys can cost up to $10,000 to reach a sample of just 1,000 people.

Helping Microsoft put a little bit of social search goodness in its Internet Explorer 8 must have helped OneRiot (news, site) garner a little more attention.

The real time web search startup has just picked up some Series C financing to the tune of US$ 7 million. The funding was led by OneRiot's current venture capital firms: Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Spark Capital.

The plans for this new funding involve continual enhancement of the OneRiot core product, in addition to efforts to support partners like Microsoft and Yahoo who use the OneRiot API.

The OneRiot Hot Web Topics Internet Explorer 8 add-on is an IE8 web slice offering real time web search results on the most discussed topics on the social web.

With over 3 millions users opted in to share their information with OneRiot, they are able to provide the hottest topics currently being discussed via sites like Twitter and Digg. It does this using their PulseRank algorithm which determines the current social buzz on web content mentioned within these social services -- based on their community.

OneRiot real time web search

Obviously OneRiot must be doing something right to get their venture capital firms to cough up more money for development. As they say on their blog, "Yes, we're really happy about this."

• TwitterWorth US$250m, Gets US$20m Injection
• Digg Restructures to Find Profits: Poaches Yahoo! Exec.
• Facebook Rolls Out Ad-Driven Polls
• Ad Network Social Media Bags US$6m
• Superbowl Advertising, Web 2.0-Style
• The Greatest Superbowl Snack Stadium Ever 

Twitter Worth US$250m, Gets US$20m Injection

Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Windows Live Becomes Social Media Hub
• Mince Your Facebook Friends for a Free Whopper
• New Twitter Services to chew on: Tweetbacks and TwtApps
• Digg Persists in Making No Money
• MySpace and Yahoo on your TV
• Twitter still can't handle MacWorld 

Windows Live Becomes Social Media Hub

The walls between the social platforms continue to fall away. Steve Ballmer has just announced a new Windows Live feature which will give you status reports and allow you to interact with your various Social accounts through your Live email. ElectricPig reports on the new Microsoft initiative:

"The announcement... means that you’ll be able to log in to the new Windows Live Essential suite with one password and have all your updates from everything from Twitter to Flickr, and more than 50 other social networks now including Facebook amalgamated on one page. Think of it as an RSS feed to see what your friends are up to."

There are a number of services out there to let people know where you are, what you are doing and what you like. TripSay, a new travel service still in beta, is a mesh of personal mapping applications and review applications and services. If you are looking for a social network to share your travel stories and opinions, TripSay may be the community for you.

• Facebook Connect General Launch
• Digg 'Not for Sale'
• FileRide: a Social Network for ... Files(?)
• Six Apart Buys Pownce, Shuts it Down
• Disastrous Timewaster of the Week: FireNES