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Digg has launched a new algorithm to try and prevent groups of users from gaming the system. The new update effectively punishes users who vote in groups in an effort to promote certain stories. The result is that stories that reach the homepage have to be dugg by a diverse group of users. In a blog post, Digg’s Kevin Rose explains that, “Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page. Our goal is to give each person a fair chance of getting their submission promoted to the home page.” He goes on to say that as a result of the new algorithm, it will not be uncommon to see stories with over 100 diggs still in the “upcoming” section.

Quite how this will work in practice I am not sure. Any move to stop the powerful few who efectively control digg’s front page is welcomed but at the end of the day Digg is used as a promotion tool by individuals, including me! The only real way to stop that happening and to be true to the original concept, that of promoting interesting stories, is to eliminate the ’social’ element of the site - i.e. user names and friends.

To the shelters everyone cos’ this is going to blow!

The Digg Reel, the first television program showcasing highly rated user-submitted videos on Digg.com, has launched on Revision3. Heres what they promise ..

From crazy stunts and biting satire to politics and world events, each week host Jessica Corbin will showcase some of the hottest videos submitted to the most popular social content site on the Internet and explain why these clips deserve their 15 minutes of Internet fame.

And here’s what episode 1 delivered .. [Read more]

Compete metrics have released a chart of the fastest moving websites for 2007, positive and negative, and it makes interesting reading. Supporting the belief that the internet is largely the haunt of sexually frustrated saddos,  high on the list are the adult sites YouPorn and RedTube.

A few interesting trends are revealed:

• The web has yet to reach its “Social Peak”: Among the fastest growing sites, eighteen of the twenty offer a prominent peer-to-peer communication platform. Even in the adult video category, sites that function almost identically to YouTube (redtube.com and youporn.com) represent the fastest growing niche. [Read more]

  

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