Splurb shows the most popular links on the web at any given time
Splurb has now joined the long list of web services that does little but showcases popular stories on the web.
Competition includes TechMeme, TweetMeme, Digg, Mixx, and others.
Splurb gather links from a variety of services and ranks them as per the popularity [...]
Digg Trends announced
Digg has announced a new feature launch on their social bookmarking service.
This new feature is named Digg Trends.
This feature would pick up an emerging hot story and put it on the homepage.
Users would get the ability to check out the story for a time period. If it becomes popular, it [...]
Digg acquires WeFollow
Kevin Rose is connected to both Digg and WeFollow.
While Digg is a social bookmarking service, WeFollow is more of a directory of Twitter users.
Twitter users are able to add themselves to the directory and the service sorts them on several parameters.
The latest rumor in town is that Digg [...]
Digg to get its own Apple iPhone app finally
Digg remains one of the most popular social networks to not have its own official iPhone App.
Kevin Rose has now confirmed that they have been working on one and it would arrive in the near future.
Rose further said that the service is working on [...]
Mark Trammell leaves Digg to join Twitter!
Twitter has managed to hire Mark Trammell who has been working for Digg as their user experience expert.
He is officially going to join Twitter on October 5.
Even at Twitter he is expected to play an adviser role for the designers at Digg.com.
He said [...]
Reddit is in a state of mess due to some JavaScript attack!
Reddit is in a state of mess at the moment due to some attack which has managed to affect almost all the registered users of the service.
The attack seems to be related to some JavaScript related vulnerability which remains unfixed in the [...]
AIM 7 with social features to arrive next week
AOL would launch a brand new edition of their AIM instant messenger next week.
AIM 7 would come loaded with tons of new functionalities like support for social networks.
The company said that this new version would enable the users to stay connected with their friends and [...]
Daniel Burka moving from Digg to Tiny Speck
Daniel Burka has been the man behind the visual elements of the popular social bookmarking service Digg.
Burka announced on the Digg Blog that he is leaving the company to join his friends at Tiny Speck. Tiny Speck is currently managed by Cal Henderson and Stewart Butterfield.
Digg [...]
Mixx team launches TweetMixx
The team behind Digg rival Mixx have launched a new web service named TweetMixx.
TweetMixx is designed around Twitter with the aim of finding new content related to your interests.
The service aims to provide the best of the content available on Twitter at any given time.
Here are some of [...]
Digg implements NOFOLLOW for spammy external links
Digg has become the latest social network to apply NOFOLLOW attribute to external links which are not from trusted sources.
The aim is to make it futile for spammers to put their content on the Digg network as NOFOLLOW does not pass on the benefit from getting linked from [...]
