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Digg Social Reader is introduced. March 6, 2012: Digg Mobile is now in a relationship with Digg Social Reader. July 12, 2012: Digg announced its sale to Betaworks for $500,000. [75] July 20, 2012: Digg announces new site redesign in progress, "rebooting" the site back to v1 as a "startup", slated for release on August 1, 2012. [31] [33] [32 ...
a Delicious-like social bookmarking service, bought by Clipboard in 2012. [2] Connotea: discontinued service on March 12, 2013. Delicious: The site was bought by Avos Systems on April 27, 2011, though was operated by Yahoo! until July 2011. [3] On June 1, 2017, Delicious was acquired by Pinboard, and the service will be discontinued. As of ...
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious , founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and " tagging ".
Unlike other social networking sites, Buzz allowed the publisher to modify the submission. [2] Yahoo! announced on April 19, 2011, that it was killing off Buzz as of April 21, 2011. "This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations", the company wrote in a brief statement. [3] [4] [5]
Social networking sites (ex: Digg, Reddit, Propeller, etc.) run on a virtuous cycle of content (stories, pictures, videos) attracting users who interact with the content (voting, commenting) and who are then inspired to provide new content (original or culled from outside sources), thereby attracting more readers, etc., etc. (see Web 2.0)
On the Slashdot and Fark websites, administrators decide which articles are selected for the front page. On Reddit and Digg, the articles that get the most votes from the community of users will make it to the front page. Many social news websites also feature an online comment system, where users discuss the issues raised in an article.
Delicious [1] (stylized del.icio.us) was a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.
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