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Experimenting with Digg Trends
blog.digg.com - 17 days ago
Experimenting with Digg Trends
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Hi there, Because there’s so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we’ve been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we’re launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active ...
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Digg Trends: Experimenting with Users Choosing Homepage Stories
Search Engine Watch Blog — ... Ok, so technically Digg users do choose homepage stories by voting up submitted links. But Digg Trends is an experiment in being a little more explicit. ...

Digg Trending: Does This Belong on the Homepage?
Brent Csutoras — ... of the new Digg Trend feature they had acquired. diggupcoming 460x381 Digg Trending: Does This Belong on the Homepage? picture Digg Trending ‘identifies and highlights upcoming stories that have a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). When we detect a new trending story, it will appear on the homepage for ten minutes. Based on the Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes the story will either become popular or not.’ Today they ran the first live test of the system on the Digg homepage, asking Digg users to help decide if the suggested ...

Online Media Daily: Ranking Redundancy: Digg Launches Trending Stories
MediaPost | Online Media News — ... that time frame, it will remain on the home page. Otherwise, a message will appear showing the trend failed and the story will get buried. Trending stories are selected based on a high volume of Diggs, comments, favorites, shares and other activities on the site. "The goal of Digg Trends is to put high activity stories in front of the community quickly and to present a fun new way for people to express whether they like the story or not," wrote software engineer Kurt Wilms on the Digg company blog . "We only show the most basic information for each story so as to ensure that ...

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/05/09
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing — Online Media: Murdoch: Plan to charge for online content delayed. News Corp reports steep drop at digital unit. Search: Google Analytics for mobile apps rolls out . New Google Commerce Search introduced for retailers. Google addresses privacy concerns with Dashboard. How-to: preview search results in Google, Bing Social Media: Digg ranks upcoming stories with new Digg Trends feature. Flickr plants an app garden. Twitter tests tweet notifications. ABC site adds 'social' tool for online video. ...

New Digg Feature: Trending Topics
Search Engine Journal — Digg.com has always been known as “Reddit.com’s news from yesterday”. It appears now they’re trying to combat this issue…at least on a micro level. A recent post from Digg explains: …we’re launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage so people can vote on whether or not they feel the story actually belongs there. How Does it Work? Digg Trends ...

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