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If Websites Were Nations, Digg and Reddit Would Go to War

What if the websites we choose to frequent weren’t merely websites, but nations that reflect our homes and ideals? The comic War imagines a world where website membership equals citizenship, and the reddit aliens “liberate” Diggers from their oligarchy. The first installment of War, created by ncomment, appeared online this past April. It imagined the…

Boxee Beta Finally Coming to Windows, and Brings MLB, Digg, and Tumblr Support

Boxee held a big developer’s meeting today in San Francisco, and boy did they pack in the announcements. Aside from Windows support, the platform as a whole now supports Digg, Tumblr, and MLB. Most importantly, it’s finally leaving alpha soon. At the event, Boxee announced that they’ll finally be moving out of alpha to beta…

Kevin Rose Nails Today’s Apple News, All Known Associates Permanently Buried by Apple

So Digg’s Kevin Rose polished off his crystal ball prior to today’s Apple event, as he is wont to do. We posted on his rumors, with the necessary skepticism. And now as the dust settles on our live coverage, we doff our hat to everyone’s favorite iSight Carnac: just about every single detail Kevin hit,…

Crowd-Source Design Site Kluster Launches Digg Competitor Called Knewsroom

What the hell does a product-design site like Kluster have in common with a community-filtered news service like Digg? They both use vibrant communities of enthusiastic—and perhaps overly opinionated—people to make decisions. Kluster, only in its infancy, decided to put its main design service on hold, and use its crowd power to publish a daily…

Kevin Rose Sets Up Lame Home Theater System (Verdict: BURIED!)

As any good tech aficionado, Kevin Rose has put together his new home theater system all by himself. Unlike a good rich tech aficionado, however, Kevin Rose has set up quite a humble setup, spending just around $9,040 on it. Honestly, given his worth, I was expecting a Sony Death Star projector and a full…

Kevin Rose Eats Funny Red Pills Again, Predicts iPhone 3G

After being absolutely wrong wrong wrong (WRONG) about the first iPhone, Digg’s Kevin Rose has now settled down for the obvious: he says that the 3G version of the JesusPhone will have a camera on the front for video-conferencing with other 3G iPhone and Macintosh iChat users. Most probably, he is right about this, but…

Study Shows Digg Freezes Innovation Among Its Users

Transparently-shared ideas, like those that circulate on popular social networks such as Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon, may be destroying people’s creativity. According to a new study published today by two cognitive scientists, people who share ideas in large groups tend to stagnate rather than innovate. They “glom onto” popular ideas and then don’t pursue new…

Google Takes a Lesson From Digg?

Taking a lesson from Digg and similar sites, Google Labs is testing out a new reader response interface for search results (with only a select few users for a limited time). Essentially, your normal search results are enhanced with “like it” and “don’t like it” buttons that would tweak the order of said results on…

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Video Proof of Geek Squad Stealing Porn

Click to viewThe Geek Squad, Best Buy’s tie-wearing, Beetle-driving, and now porn-stealing tech group, was caught transferring pornographic images from a customer’s machine. The sting was orchestrated by The Consumerist, who give a play-by-play of how they set it up. Check it out, it’s work safe. Be sure to give it a Digg while you’re…

Digg Case Mod Hates Blog Spam

This Digg PC will show your true allegiance to your favorite social news site. It’s shaped like the Digg logo, and I can only presume it comes pre-loaded with AWESOME PICS, Apple rumors, baby pictures of Kevin Rose, and Ubuntu Linux. Product Page [via Red Ferret]

Low End Theory: Talk is Cheap

By Brendan I. Koerner I can definitely see the wisdom in having excised negotiation from most of our daily commerce. Imagine if every time you had to buy a roll of toilet paper from CVS, the cashier tried to highball you: “That’ll be $3.99, sir…What? You don’t want to pay that much? Okay, gimme two…

HD DVD “The Code” Shirt

The folks at Nerdy Shirts have taken the spectacle that is HD DVD on Digg and turned it into a shirt. Yes, you too can be reminded day after day (if you never change your shirts) of the code that launched a thousand stories. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-digg-riot-in-full-effect-over-pulled-hd-dvd-k-256982 Have your fun now, because in a few months you’ll…

Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story

The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect over at Digg, where users are revolting over Digg’s decision to pull a story (that netted over 15,000 diggs) and reportedly boot a user for posting the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number, which would allow someone to crack the copy protection on an HD-DVD. The front…

“Mad Dog” Murdoch to Teach a Generation How To Read The News

Tickled with the fact that there are over 100 million users of his MySpace networking site, but irked that members of the Ritalin generation only spend like two seconds on their pages each day, Rupert Murdoch (or at least, his company News Corp.) is planning to launch MySpace News. According to Reuters, the service will…

Digg T-Shirt Says ‘Bury Me’

Click to viewCan’t get enough of digg.com? Put your plea for diggs front and center with this T-shirt from NerdyShirts. Check out this toolish dude wearing the shirt with his strategically placed laptop and strained expression. WTF is he doing, anyway? One thing’s for sure, he’s begging to be buried. Not exactly the shirt to…

MySpace News to Take On Digg

MySpace is planning on launching MySpace News in the second quarter of this year, a new service that will combine the news aggregation of Google News with the community rating system of Digg. Will this be a strong competitor to Digg, or will MySpace News provide content for a sperate demographic? After all, I’m sure…

Helio Turns Up the Heat with Digg-Touting Samsung Slider

Today Helio’s rolling out a new Samsung touchpad slider dubbed the Heat, which, as you can see, is available in “Onyx Black” or “Gold.” Suspiciously familiar, it packs the usual Helio stuff, like Google Maps with that ever popular GPS Buddy Stalker Beacon feature, plus some new goodies on the Helio WAP deck. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-sgh-e900-slider-phone-183113 Coming…

Dell Wants You to Make It Suck Less with Digg Clone

A week ago, Dell launched its customer-centered “Dell 2.0” push with its Diggish customer suggestion site, IdeaStorm, where users can post ideas and thoughts on how to improve Dell products. Other users vote on the ideas so that the most popular ones hit the front page, ensuring that a set of eyeballs at Dell scopes…

Diggnation: Kevin Rose and Alex Transplant Drunken Livingroom Antics to Macworld

Instead of on a livingroom couch, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht filmed Diggnation #80 live at Macworld, in front of nearly hundreds and hundreds of fans. When they film at home, Kevin and Alex drink. True to form, they proceeded to pound beers, while Moscone security guards look on in question. And at one point,…