Proper Criminals » Digg http://propercriminals.com Isn't it great to work with Proper Criminals again? Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Digg catching up with the Trend(ing)…? http://propercriminals.com/2009/11/digg-catching-up-with-the-trending/ http://propercriminals.com/2009/11/digg-catching-up-with-the-trending/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:31:01 +0000 austin http://propercriminals.com/?p=169 Digg is testing a new feature to “compete” with Twitter’s real time trending topics. Digg Trending Stories is a spot on the Digg.com homepage where trending stories, selected based on an algorithm of among other things Diggs, shares, comments, are surfaced to allow users to either Digg it or let it fade back into the internets…

Digg Trending stories

Digg Trending stories

This seems very redundant. Isn’t the notion of Digg already all about top stories that users have pushed to the top? Especially on the homepage? Perhaps a Digg Trending story more like an article still in the “minor leagues” waiting to get called up? Ironically Digg has also set up a Twitter account when a new Trending Story is posted.

Read the Media Post article here

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