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I love the way that our culture and technology shape social media, encouraging self-expression and transparency. But it's easy to forget that there are pretty good reasons why we don't,

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

This morning Dell unveiled a couple of community-focused sites, essentially jumping into the web 2.0 waters with a splash. They've released a digg-like community site called IdeaStorm and a video

Israeli digital crafts social network eSnips launched a new feature tonight that could change the social networking game. Called Social DNA, it's essentially a collection of personality quizzes that can

Google Latitude is out, giving your friends the ability to tell where you are (or at least where your mobile phone is) 24/7. You can, of course, opt out in

Digg made a post to the company's blog this morning announcing that they are officially joining the DataPortability.org Working Group. Digg follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many other companies in

This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Digg.com recently had a survey pinned to the

AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be

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Mixx, the social news site that competes directly with Digg, just celebrated its first birthday by announcing that digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Mixx_Turns_One_Happy_Birthday';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';traffic to its site has grown