Digg

Welcome to the wild world of DIGG!

[|Digg]  is part of the family of Web 2.0 websites. First of all what is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is a type of website that allows users to share and exchange information on any topic of interest; may it be astronomy, cheese or the latest celebrity gossip, its all there! What’s great about Web 2.0 is that not only can you exchange textual information you can also exchange videos and even chat to other members of the site-community. The intention of Web 2.0 is to create an online community in which all the users can have control of the information that it uploaded and download from the site. For more information on Web 2.0 just click on à  [|Web 2.0?]  __Besides being a Web 2.0 site, what is Digg?__ Digg is a place for people to discover and share content found on the web. From the biggest online destination to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people collectively determine the value of content. In doing so, we’re changing the way people consume information online (Digg, 2010)

__How did Digg begin?__ Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by [|Kevin Rose], Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and [|Jay Adelson]. All except Byrne currently play an active role in the management of the site. "We started working on developing the site back in October 2004. (Wikipedia, 2010)

** “We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of Digg” –Kevin Rose ** __Whats in a name??__ Originally they wanted to call the site "Diggnation", but Rose sought after a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", for the reason that users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was named "Digg" instead of "Dig" because the domain name "dig.com" had been previously registered by the Walt Disney Internet Group. [|Diggnation] would eventually be used as the title of Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly [|podcast] discussing popular stories from Digg. If you want a quick tour of Digg click on [|“Take Tour of Digg”]



**Cool features of Digg** · You can connect to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. · You can fix your homepage to show certain categories that are fixed to your own personal favorites · You can have more than one account · You can make friends and create a profile, where you can leave comments · You can submit stories and information called Diggs and Burying · As a member of Digg you have access to the Diggtv, a mobile version of Digg and you have access to the Diggstore.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digg provides inter and intra web related connections with a multitude of current and popular websites, so it guarantees maximum exposure to global circumstances and situations. Digg is not only a social Web 2.0 website it is also features educational and scholarly articles which can be of some use and significance in the academic world.
 * __Why is Digg relevant??__**

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Banyaka Moyo