Social Media

Betaworks Plans to Turn Digg Back Into a Startup
Digg, once considered a top social media site, was sold last week to Betaworks for $500,000. (July 18, 2012)

British Government Won't Seek Additional Powers to Shut Down Social Media
During the recent riots in London there was talk of the British government attempting to shut down social media. (August 25, 2011)

New Print Magazine Covers Social Media
The Social Media Monthly is a new print magazine that covers the online world of social media. (August 19, 2011)

No Twitter in Zac Efron's Future
Actor and singer Zac Efron may be the future according to Interview magazine but so far he isn't embracing social media. (April 6, 2009)

Social Network Users Concerned Media is Watching Them
The BBC reports that a Press Complaints Commission survey found that 80% of those polled said they would be more cautious about what they posted on social media websites if they knew they were being watched by the media. (June 5, 2008)

Social Media in Plain English
Common Craft has provided a great video for explaining Social Media using Scoopville, a provider of social ice cream. (May 29, 2008)

You've Never Seen Anything Like Newspond Before?
A new Digg-like news website called Newspond has debuted. (February 20, 2008)

Thoof Compares Itself to Digg
Thoof, a social media website, has created a clever viral video modeled on the popular Mac-PC ads. (January 23, 2008)

Politweets Helps Keep Track of Political Tweets
Politics are a big topic on Twitter just like they are on social networks, forums and chat rooms. (January 10, 2008)

Digg on the Block?
Digg is putting itself up for sale. (December 18, 2007)

Digg's Kevin Rose Launches Pownce to Challenge Twitter
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, has launched a new community and file sharing service called Pownce that challenges Twitter, Jaiku and other microblogging services. (July 1, 2007)

Digg Unbans Domains and Improves Spam Fighting Technology
Pronet Advertising has a list of domains that have been unbanned from Digg. (February 24, 2007)

Digg Adds New Video and Podcasting Tools
Digg has a post that announces "features o' plenty" on Digg. (December 18, 2006)

Stupid User Generated Content Aggregators
Are some of the most successful websites really just aggregators of massive amounts of stupid content and hideous templates? Aaron Swartz included a theory called "The Stupidity of Crowds" in his post on his Raw Thought blog about the habits of the most successful websites. (December 12, 2006)

Sploggers and Marketers Targeting Digg
The bigger the social media websites or memediggers like Digg and Reddit get the more spam and cheat tools they attract. (December 4, 2006)

Will Social Media Destroy Western Civilization?
The title of this post sounds like a strange question to ask but Andy Rutledge has a post about how social media can be boring, mediocre and possibly even civilization ending. (December 1, 2006)