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New Digg-Themed Social News and Media Website Thuhm

January 8, 2010 By 12 Comments
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Digg has become the popular site for internet marketers and bloggers to aspire to. Digg used to be a popular tech website, where tech enthusiasts and internet lovers could gather to share links. Whichever links got the most "diggs" would hit the front page, generally to recieve a surge of traffic. Now Digg has been limited recently on what it can do, and it's popularity has started to drop as community members are finding better places to hang out such as Reddit. Unlike any other social … [Read more...]

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Interview with a Digg.com Software Engineer Kurt Wilms

November 2, 2009 By 28 Comments
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As a web designer myself, I have found that other web designers I talk to always have favorite websites they go to for inspiration. Not saying they want to copy a specific website, but there are just some site's that "stick" and really inspire you to create web designs. For me, this was Digg.com when I first found the site in 2007. It has gone through many design changes since then, but it's still one of the most successful startups for websites in the CA area, and it's fame is very … [Read more...]

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Interview with Digg-Clone for Designers DesignBump

July 17, 2009 By 16 Comments
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Digg was the first social news site to really skyrocket into popularity, gaining millions of pageviews a day to the site. No doubt, there would be similar sites in separate niches on the web. The first of these niche sites in the web design category was Design Float, which has had many issues with databases and keeping the site up and running properly. Therefore, a new competitor has stepped up to the plate: DesignBump. DesignBump promotes the most popular articles about web, graphic, and … [Read more...]

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