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Recently, we've seen a couple of our favorite web apps go open source. The code for FF To Go, the popular mobile client for FriendFeed developed by RSSMeme creator Benjamin

Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites - the other

Lately, we have seen a number of interesting attempts to combine various social networks and other social media services into one application. EventBox is a good example of this. It's

In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an

This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Economic_Idiocy_of_Blocking_Social_Media_Traffic'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin =

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. This post looks at the main players in the Social News space, to try and identify their characteristics and understand the

Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and

With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole

Backtype, known for its fast-growing comment-aggregation service, announced the availability of a new BackType Connect plugin for standalone WordPress blogs today. The plugin uses the newly-updated Connect API to integrate

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