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Posts Tagged ‘ Digg ’

Digg’s intelligent take on social media ads

For all the hype around brands’ use of social media we’re yet to see many examples that seem to truly understand and reflect the space in which they operate. While perusing Digg today though we’ve come across just such a thing. Director Spike Jonze’s latest film, Where The Wild Things Are, has been advertised via video banners for the past month or so on Digg. Now though, they’ve taken advantage of one of the site’s latest ad offerings and collated stories related to the film in a sponsored area complete with banner ad.

Posted October 16, 2009 10:58 am by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Google does a Digg

The founder of Wikipedia talked about doing something similar a while back but the latest addition to Google Labs is a Digg-style rating system for search results. Think the 4th result down is actually the most relevant? Click on the little up arrow next to it and push it up where it belongs (and give it a little orange star in the process). Irrelevant result? Click the cross to banish it from view. Great idea but we’re left wondering how they’ll protect this from viral companies who’ve become so adept at exploiting Digg and other rating systems such as that found on YouTube.

Posted December 3, 2007 6:11 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Digging Digg

I’m going to go out on a limb and state that Digg is the most forward-thinking site on the web. Let’s start with the basics. You submit a story to the site which other users can then ‘Digg’/vote for. The more Diggs a story receives, the more prominence it is given on the site. If you don’t like the story you can ‘Bury’ it.

Posted March 19, 2007 3:53 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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YouTube: The CessPit of the internet?

I’d urge any bored readers of this blog to sit and read through some YouTube comments if they’re in need of a good chuckle. You see, there’s just something about the site which seems to bring out the absolute worst members of society and spurs them to write utter drivel. Racism, sexism, homophobia, bitching and general foul-mouthed abuse are all extremely common. Now while these are clearly not humorous bases for general conversation, the sheer lunacy and ignorance demonstrated is in itself amusing.

Posted March 12, 2007 11:27 am by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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