Sturvs Collects the Latest Nigerian News From All Over The Web
Sturvs is a source for Nigerian news which, at first glance, looks like your average blog. Some have also referred to the site as the Nigerian version of Digg. It definitely has a snazzier color scheme, though. The site, still under development, features a home page with an overview of the categories available, currently: Election [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-29-2010
Rapleaf, Where Everybody Knows Your Name Earlier this month, we found out that some of the most popular apps on Facebook were sharing user data they shouldn’t have been. While many of the apps involved did not share this information intentionally, it still violated Facebook policy. To explain the gravity of the issue: The main [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-3-2010
The New Digg Is Alive and Kicking The majority of the Digg community has been actively revolting against the new Digg now that it has opened up. While there have been reports of instability, it seems the primary concern is with certain missing features. What’s interesting about that is that these are the very same [...]
Read MoreMaximize Your Time Online with SwiftRiver
If you look at the end of any internet article, the site will provide its readers with TONS of ways to share information (Twitter, Facebook, email, Digg, Reddit, Buzz, yada, etcetera, and so on). Now imagine attempting to create profiles on all of those sites just to gather all of that information. A daunting task for any social media expert, let alone someone who just wants to research information found online. A task nonetheless that SwiftRiver wants to help you make a whole lot easier.
Read More‘Digg Patriots’ Illustrate The Problem with Social Bookmarking
Alternet reports that a group of influential Digg users have been caught using their powers for evil. The group consists primarily of conservatives and their goal has been to bury any stories they consider “too liberal” to promote their own conservative ideals. The group has been active for more than a year, operating multiple accounts, [...]
Read MoreDigg CEO Steps Down and Kevin Rose Takes the Wheel
Yesterday, Digg CEO Jay Adelson stepped down. After “five years, forty million users, and an amazing ride,” he felt that Digg was in a good and stable place, having ramped up hiring and left the startup phase. Because of this and the impending launch of the new dig site, he felt it was a good time [...]
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