WSJ.com:
The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped sharply Friday, finishing February on a gloomy note, after Dell reported a decline in quarterly profit and said it saw corporate customers spending less.
Why should the whole tech sector bleed, because Dell can’t innovate? Now Dell pisses me even more!
Dell on innovation: let’s do a digg clone and let [...]
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Dell to the tech sector: “My bad!”
Lesson Learned for “Digg Revolt”
That same night after the open letter was posted, Jay Adelson and Kevin rose stood up and talked about the changes. The dissuaded the “rebels” to stop the revolt.
Jay Adelson’s comments on what happened:
“Let’s be realistic about what happened yesterday,” Adelson says. “It wasn’t a revolt. To me, a revolt is when [...]
Web 2.0 Social Media Revolt: An open letter to Digg from Top Digg Users
Valleywag is reporting on an open letter from top Digg users and their intents to defect to another social media site, due to Digg’s secrecy and lack of transparency.
The letter points out 5 mayor Digg faults:
1) Lack of communication and disregard for the Digg community
2) Unexplained and unacknowledged banning of top users
3) Lack of transparency [...]
Digg part of hosting marketing
When people use your companies’ products to market theirs, you know you’re in business. Digg has become a huge phenomenon to the point that hosting companies actually state in their marketing material that you won’t get burned if you get a “Digg Effect” while hosting with them.
MediaTemple on their Grid Service (MySQL Burst Container):
the [...]
Untraceable: Don’t Digg that Site
If you though a full blown Digg effect only killed servers(and the hamsters inside), think again. This movie Untraceable looks pretty cool. They also have a live site for the one in the trailer killwithme.com (no, no one is getting hurt there….i hope).
Being Open Pays: NYTimes Traffic Spikes
comScore is reporting that NYTimes.com has gained 7.5 million reader since August. Just more proof that being open pays. Subscriptions are a thing of the past thanks to really good advertising networks. Now once again I plead the WSJ.com to open their walls and do a facelift for their sites (so last bubble). Sending email [...]
Wall Street Journal opens the Door to Digg (keeps the Walls up)
So after the purchase of the Wall Street Journal by Murdoch and Company, we’ve seen some interesting changes happen in the company. First off, the started expanding and plan to offer content like the Reuturs/Ap does. Now they are allowing traffic from Digg to enter for free!
Although surprising, it’s actually kind of interesting. Digg has [...]