Digg

Today marks the next stage in Digg's future.

We’re proud to share that the Digg engineering team will be joining SocialCode, a leading provider of social media advertising and intelligence, and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

I’ve been at Digg for six and a half years and to say I’ve seen it all, is putting it mildly.

Mobile. Social. Those words seem to follow each other in most conversations.

Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute) and Tad Hogg (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)

Social media sites such as Digg use crowd-sourcing and social ("follow") links to help people find interesting stories. Crowd-sourcing relies on the reactions of the first people to see a new story to indicate whether others will find it interesting. Social links allow fine-tuning the selection by emphasizing reactions by a person's friends. These techniques are especially useful filters for the flood of online content whose quality is hard, if not impossible, to determine automatically.

Starting this week, a revised and simpler Newsbar began rolling out to all users.

Gamification, does anyone really know what it means? A quick search of dictionary.com yields no results.