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The idea isn't new: "Social networking" has been around forever. It's the simple act of expanding the number of people you know by meeting your friends' friends, their friends' friends and their friends' friends' friends. And MySpace isn't the first (or the last) Web site to take the concept online. So why does MySpace have more than twice the traffic of Google within four years of its 2003

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In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought Intermix Media, the company that had controlling interest in MySpace, for $580 million. Most analysts think that what Murdoch was really interested in buying was MySpace. With more than 15 billion page views per month (in January 2006 by Alexa's count) and millions of digital-media-gobbling young people in rapt attention, MySpace is a potential-consumer

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Ellie doesn't have any money, but that's OK -- MySpace is entirely free. Here's what we see when we arrive at the site:MySpace homepageSigning up for MySpace takes about two minutes. To register and create our basic profile, all we need to do is enter a few details on a form: name, e-mail address, password, country where we live, postal code (for United States, Canada and United Kingdom residents

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del.icio.us Digg.com Fark.com Mad Penguin: Digging Distributed Journalism: Digg.com - Dec. 16, 2005 Slashdot.com "About Digg: Frequently Asked Questions." Digg.com.http://digg.com/faq Andrews, Robert. "Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot." WiredNews. Nov. 17, 2005.http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,69568-0.html "Could Digg be used for Sun stock manipulation?" Silicon Valley Sleuth. Mar.

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It started small and quiet. Macgyver, a frequent submitter to ForeverGeek and to Digg, discovered a strange thing on Digg -- two stories submitted by the same user with nearly identical Diggers in nearly identical Digging order got promoted to the front page, and one of the Diggers for each story happened to be Kevin Rose. While Macgyver drew no conclusions, the obvious one to draw was that Digg

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To quote the tech blog ForeverGeek's Macgyver in April 2006, "Digg is 99% fantastic." Although the blogger would later change his opinion of the site following a drawn-out battle with Digg founder Kevin Rose, most people will tell you that the original rating holds true. People race to be the first to post a great news story on Digg; Digg routinely features "diamond in the rough" stories that

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For a Web site that receives more than 200 million page views a month (April 2006), Digg's technology framework is pretty streamlined. As with any proprietary system, Digg's technical department doesn't just put it all out there for everyone to copycat. But there are bits and pieces to be gleaned. The entire setup is based on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), a programming model that

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We've covered most of the basics, but there's more you can do with Digg.com. It's kind of an all-in-one news site, blog feeder and "social bookmarking" hub. Some of the additional features you can use at Digg include:Digg Spy: Digg Spy offers a real-time view of Digg.com activity. You can watch as stories are submitted, promoted, Dugg and reported.Social bookmarks - Add friends and keep track of

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If you want to go beyond reading the homepage stories, here's a breakdown of the primary actions you'll take at Digg.com:RegisterIt takes about five seconds to create an account with Digg. Once youhave an account, you can access all of the Web site's features and takean active role in submitting and Digging stories.Browse and DiggBrowse for stories within the Digg "UpcomingStories" queue, and let

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Courtesy Digg.comThe Internet hosts a wealth of information that no single person could possibly tackle in a lifetime. It would take an army to dig through the mounds of news reports and whittle the field to a manageable size, and then another army to pick and chose from that field the bits of information the average Web-savvy Joe might find interesting. And then another army to report back on

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One thing about blogs that is so fascinating is the interlinking. There are millions of people keeping active blogs, and bloggers often tend to look at other people's blogs. When they see something they like in their favorite blogs, bloggers will often link to and comment on it.All of this tight interlinking has created a phenomenon known as the blogosphere. The blogosphere consists of all the

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A typical blog has a main page and nothing else. On the main page, there is a set of entries. Each entry is a little text blurb that may contain embedded links out to other sites, news stories, etc. When the author adds a new entry, it goes at the top, pushing all the older entries down. This blog also has a right sidebar that contains additional permanent links to other sites and stories. The

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Blogs appear on the news pretty often these days. For example, a reporter is tipped to a story by a blog, or a blog reports another angle on a story. Blogs show up in magazines a lot, too.But there is a good chance you have never seen a blog (also known as aweblog) or experienced the blogosphere. What are blogs? There are now millions of them -- where did they all come from?In this article, you

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