Digg.com delivers the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet right now. The Internet is full of great stories, and Digg helps users find, read, and share the very best ones. It is a typical web2.0 website and it combines social media with social networking very well.
We have gained a clear concept of both social media and social networking, but not web2.0. So I will introduce this first.
Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a platform for information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the Internet or World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.
Users on digg.com participate in social interaction.
They generate content by submit a link to Digg, to share a new story for other users on Digg.
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They give stories a digg to show their preference, and share stories for friends on facebook or tweet.
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By generating stories, digging stories, sharing stories, users change their traditional way to discover news, read news and share news. Meanwhile, the information is disseminated by these social interaction.
As we can see, digg.com will select the most popular stories and show them on the home page of digg.com., so users can always read those most interesting and talked about stories. However, there is no relationship between users of digg, they are just like strangers and contribute to digg index as a whole. To another words, users can not build a relationship on digg.com, they can just see what majority interested in and can't find those who have the same interest, what they focus on is the content rather than connection. From this aspect, digg.com shows obvious features of social media and web2.0.
To make this social media more sociable, digg.com cooperates with facebook and tweet. To facilitate the share of information on digg.com, it puts a share button below every story. Instead of building new relationship, it introduce the users' existent connection from other social network(FB and TW).Users can easily click the button and share it on their facebook or tweet.
In terms of social networking, like facebook and tweet(focus on connection), users share stories from digg to facebook or tweet, discover those who have the same interest, build and enhance their relationship.
In conclusion, information from social media helps people to discover the possibility of connection and social networking builds and enhances that connection. Stories from digg help people to find like-minded friends, facebook helps people keep relationship with these friends, new stories from digg make people find more common character, interaction on facebook deepen the relationship...The process forms a positive circle, so I think social media like digg and social networking like facebook and tweet facilitate the development of each other.
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Hi! Thanks for your blog that made me known more about digg.com as I haven't used it before.
回复删除From your introduction, I know digg.com is a very good platform for people to share their stories with either strangers or friends. However, in contrast to traditional news media, I think the reliability and truth of the "news" on digg.com may hardly be guaranteed. So do you think the certainty and reliability of information on social networks is a quite important factor of social network's development?
I agree with you that certainty and reliability of information on social networks is a quite important factor of social network's development, but you may misunderstand here what I mean stories.Stories here are news from different website which have certain infuluence (e.g. Dailymail.co.uk, you can see what it is on wikipedia via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dailymail.co.uk). What users of Digg.com do is just sharing news from above similar online media, so I think the certainty and reliability is guaranteed, except when the officail online media makes mistakes.
删除I have never used digg.com or heard about it before.
回复删除But I can see the digg have some connection with facebook and twitter
I think it's like another kinds of facebook because you add people because you shall same interests.
Hmm..Yes, you can regard Digg.com as a facebook or something like it. But there's something to be added to your understanding. I think facebook is a comprehensive on which you can share everything you want to, while Digg is a vertical and segmented online social network for only news sharing.
删除So you are talking about the website of Digg.com. After reading their website, I can't agree more with your opinion. This website truly delivers the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet.
回复删除And I thought if there is any possible that combined this website with Facebook or other social website. It must be interesting! All in all, your conclusion is exactly the same like I have considered "information from social media helps people to discover the possibility of connection and social networking builds and enhances that connection". Good!
From this blog, I learn a lot about Digg.com, the platform which I never heard or use. Thank you for sharing with us!
回复删除After reading your statement, I know Digg.com is a excellent social network for us to find like-minded friends. it's so special cause it's really a problem for me that in social webs such as Facebook or RenRen, people add each other even though though they are not familiar with each other. if there is a social web, where people can meet some 'similar guy', it would be attractive to me~
Thank you for sharing this interesting website. As you mentioned, digg.com allows people to share stories and discover news. Though digg.com may gathered lots of people share common interest, users can not actually build up a relationship by it. But it makes an excellent decision I think, cooperate with facebook and tweet. Instead of build up another platform itself, cooperation seems much more effective and efficient. This kind of cooperation reminds me of a concept called mobilize resources I learned in other course. Interesting!
回复删除Thank you for sharing this article about Digg. I wonder if you have ever visited delicious, reddit and stumbleupon which are all similar sites as Digg. Basically all of these sites provide the function of sharing and discussion (usually URLs, but some supports images as well), and of course there are still differences and each site has its own features. One interesting thing I noticed is that all these sites had similar traffic 2 years ago however digg and delicious's traffic dropped significantly during the past 6 months while stumbleupon and reddit are not affected. Considering all the these sites provide similar functions, I have no idea why digg is not as popular as it was before. (Traffic data got from Alexa)
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