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Digg Changes May've Increased Quality, But The Community Is In Turmoil
Written by Richard MacManus / September 8, 2006 7:43 AM / 9 Comments
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This week there's been turmoil in the Digg world, as the Digg developers strive to reduce the influence of the top users - in other words make the system fairer.


Times Reader - Exclusive Screenshots Of As Yet Unreleased Microsoft App
Written by Richard MacManus / August 31, 2006 5:24 AM / 27 Comments
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Times Reader is an upcoming new application from The New York Times and Microsoft, which lets users read the NY Times electronically using advanced screen reading technology from Microsoft. The Continue reading »


Status And The Social Bookmarker
Written by Richard MacManus / August 2, 2006 4:22 PM / 3 Comments
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Tom Wolfe could write a novel about this...or at least a short story. Cartoon by Oliver Widder, via Nick Carr's comments. Jason Calacanis also notes: "I think we have three


Digg stats after Jason Calacanis offer
Written by Richard MacManus / August 2, 2006 5:33 AM / 5 Comments
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The Diggtrends website has just done some stats relating to the Netscape owner's offer to buy out digg's top users. They found that the top 10 users contributed 1792 of


Reddit 'white labels' its software to Slate
Written by Richard MacManus / July 27, 2006 1:00 AM / 1 Comments
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Community news site Reddit is integrating its software into Slate.com, the venerable Webzine currently owned by Washington Post. The goal is to give Slate readers "a new way to find


Calacanis offers to buy out digg users
Written by Richard MacManus / July 18, 2006 9:54 PM / 20 Comments
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Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: "We will pay you $1,000 a


NY Times Headbutts New Media
Written by Richard MacManus / July 10, 2006 7:56 PM
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The NY Times reports that old media won out over new media when it came to World Cup coverage. The Times notes that television and newspapers benefited from the


New Netscape = New Coke?
Written by Richard MacManus / July 10, 2006 4:02 PM / 19 Comments
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Over the past couple of days I've gotten 170 comments (and still going!) on a post I wrote last week entitled Netscape Community Backlash. I've actually gotten more comments than Continue reading »


News Corp: portals are out, mini-portals in
Written by Richard MacManus / July 8, 2006 4:38 AM / 2 Comments
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The latest issue of Wired magazine has a useful profile of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which Wired has elevated to number 9 in its latest Wired 40 list (it didn't Continue reading »


Netscape Community Backlash
Written by Richard MacManus / July 1, 2006 4:30 PM / 201 Comments
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I've been tracking the release of the new Digg-style community news site Netscape.com, because there is a lot of backlash within the Netscape community about it. A story called Netscape's


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