New Digg-Themed Social News and Media Website Thuhm

Digg has become the popular site for internet marketers and bloggers to aspire to. Digg used to be a popular tech website, where tech enthusiasts and internet lovers could gather to share links. Whichever links got the most “diggs” would hit the front page, generally to recieve a surge of traffic. ...

January 8, 2010 · 3 min · 584 words · Jake

Configuring TortoiseSVN to Manage Updates on Pligg Sites

I am extremely fond of the new social news script Pligg CMS. I have been following it since early release, and updating Pligg sites used to be very difficult. However from instructions from this wiki, you can use TortoiseSVN to control the version and upgrades of your Pligg site with ease. ...

November 14, 2009 · 1 min · 91 words · Jake

Interview with a Digg.com Software Engineer Kurt Wilms

As a web designer myself, I have found that other web designers I talk to always have favorite websites they go to for inspiration. Not saying they want to copy a specific website, but there are just some site’s that “stick” and really inspire you to create web designs. ...

November 2, 2009 · 6 min · 1084 words · Jake

Founder of Omegle.com Answers Questions From Redditors

Omegle.com has spread across many social networking hubs, forums, and internet chatrooms rapidly over the past few months. It’s a new site with a very simple concept: you log in anonymously and talk to someone else. Someone random, someone you’ve *probably* never even met before, just talking about whatever. It seems like a breeding ground for spam and pranks, but it ultimately seen very positive results in traffic and user response. ...

October 20, 2009 · 4 min · 712 words · Jake

Collection of Photos from Digg's Office in San Francisco

Digg is undoubtedly the most popular social news website on the internet. Hell, it sort of invented the social news genre itself! Digg has been a huge inspiration to me as a designer and developer, and I have learned so much through Digg’s progression over the years. ...

July 28, 2009 · 1 min · 93 words · Jake

Interview with Digg-Clone for Designers DesignBump

Digg was the first social news site to really skyrocket into popularity, gaining millions of pageviews a day to the site. No doubt, there would be similar sites in separate niches on the web. The first of these niche sites in the web design category was Design Float, which has had many issues with databases and keeping the site up and running properly. Therefore, a new competitor has stepped up to the plate: DesignBump. ...

July 18, 2009 · 5 min · 981 words · Jake

Interview with the Genius Behind Fark, Drew Curtis

Article bookmarking and submission sites have become a commodity on the web today. There have been only a few veterans that have been around long before it was “cool” to have a site in the social news niche, and Drew Curtis’ Fark.com is one of them. Fark is social news with a twist: comedy. ...

June 29, 2009 · 5 min · 986 words · Jake