AOL to Drop Digg-Like News From Netscape

AOL is once again revamping its Netscape.com Web portal, dropping a year-old "social news" component in which visitors submitted and voted on news stories and blog entries to determine how they're ranked on the site.

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Announcement: Official Newsvine Coverage at CES 2010

The forms have been filled out and the hurdles have been cleared: As of today, I am officially registered to cover the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas as an MSNBC.com / Newsvine correspondent, live-blogging from the NBC Universal Blogger Lounge and elsewhere arou …

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Fire at the night club "Khromaya Loshad" (Lame Horse) [RUS] in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. According to an official version, the fire was caused by fireworks inside the club.

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Just a little more than a year ago, I went into the office of the Austin American-Statesman's Internet managing editor and asked whether I could start using Twitter to engage the social media community.

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The Fox Nation writers have obviously abandoned any pretense towards non bias and are engaged in full tilt partisanship that is aimed at further dividing the Fox Nation from the United States of America. (Secession is popular in Fox Nation).

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The social web trend is more or less complete. Oprah's gone Twitter, your co-worker has a MySpace problem, and if your parents aren't bugging you with Facebook movie quiz invites, they probably will be by the time you're done reading this.

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The Fox Nation was created for people who believe in the United States of America and its ideals, as expressed in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Like other Web start-ups, Digg is trying to survive the economic meltdown by making a dash for profitability.

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Layoffs Ripple thru Online Social Media, Electronic and Print Publishing

January started off with a continuing drumbeat of bad economic news, with even hot internet-based information and social media not immune to layoffs. On January 15, the Press Democrat announced that OReilly Media would lay off 14 percent of its workforce or about 30 people.

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Right now, the Indian city of Mumbai is reeling under coordinated terrorist attacks.

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Social media sites have gone mainstream over the past few years, and it's affected web developers everywhere.

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Bernardo Huberman, Hewlett-Packard's director of the HP Social Computing lab, and fellow researcher Gabor Szabo have published a highly detailed report (PDF) on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Di …

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Do you allow users to post material on your site? If you are the community manager of a Web site that does, ask for a raise. If you're the community manager's boss, give that person a raise … now.

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Digg has become synonymous with "social news", but there are a number of other sites with similar concepts out there, many of them with their sights set on trying to remove Digg from the throne.

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Convention and Community: What Do You Want Covered From the DNC?

T-Minus three days and counting until the kick-off of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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The Huffington Post has had some notable successes with its citizen journalism spin-off, Off The Bus -- but it could soon have some competition from a new website with a big built-in advantage.

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This past weekend, Michael Arrington reported, Thoof, an Austin-based social news site took a dirt nap. It shouldn't come as a surprise to our readers.

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Digg is seen as the "Grand Daddy" or the "Big Kahuna" of Social Media Networks. It has the ability to send an enormous amount of traffic in a given direction.

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In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently). However it seems like Reddit is not getting the attention it deserves.

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Everyone's got a Top Ten list, an 8 step guide, or some other how-to post to succeeding in social media. This isn't one of those posts. Not exactly. Not really. OK, maybe a little bit.

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Last night I wrote an article about Reddit's big announcement party and the Tagging feature I discovered a little early. It turns out the feature "was the result of a prank, but we suspect tags will be one of the first features developed…"

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Reddit, the social news site that publishing giant Conde Nast acquired in 2006, has made a big announcement: The site's code, as of Wednesday, is open source. It's been released under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL).

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Mixx.com is a social news site that seems to have everything going for it.

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The way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. The end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process.

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Based on some of the comments to this story about Digg's officially-not-happening (but happening nonetheless) acquisition, Digg users are getting all riled up for another fight. Particularly if the buyer ends up being Microsoft.

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What do we all (lurkers too) want in a social news site?

It seems like this is as good a time as any to think about and discuss what we want in a social news site, and how we find it (or don't) at Newsvine. Has what you want in a social news site changed over time?

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