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Betaworks’ News.me Shuts Down Its Apps, Team Heads Over To Digg

News.me, the social news service incubated at betaworks, announced today that it’s officially shutting down its iOS apps and removing them from the App Store. The company is also claiming that it’s yet another victim of Twitter’s latest API guidelines, and states that Twitter may have even viewed its service as a competitor. We might not go that far, but it makes for a good story.

 

By far, StumbleUpon has been the most effective sharing button

I'm finding that StumbleUpon has been the most effective social button on the site. I've been consistently sharing my blog entires on StumbleUpon and other content sharing sites like Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Linkedin, +1, Facebook, and maybe a couple other ones. It's mostly a waste of time except for StumbleUpon.

 

Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?

Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?

A redesign is part of the Web site’s plan to regain momentum as it has lost ground in a crowded field that includes Facebook and Twitter.

Senh: In terms of analysis, the article is similar to what I wrote. Mainly, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo Buzz got into link sharing and pretty much pushed Digg aside. Digg execs attributed the lost in traffic to Google's new algorithm which resulted in less referral traffic to Digg. The article also has an in-depth write-up of its history.

 

Digg Has Been Ransacked and Sprayed with Graffiti

Digg Has Been Ransacked and Sprayed with Graffiti

The latest version of Digg - aka Digg v4 - is getting a lot of negative feedback from its users, especially the power users. They’ve lead a Digg Revolt by pushing articles from their rival, Reddit, to Digg’s homepage. Now, they’ve defaced the site’s comment system by littering it with anti-Digg comments.

 

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