Digg released an official Firefox 3 extension that adds a digg toolbar to the Firefox browser, the tool will let you know if the page you are visiting is already submitted to digg, if it is submitted it will show digg count and the comment count. If the page is not submitted you will see [...]

Yahoo Buzz launched in February in beta with some high profile sites and later expanded to some other sites. But it never allowed small publishers in to the program. I myself applied to the program when it was launched, but never heard back from them. Today after more than 4 months since i applied i [...]

Mixx today expanded its groups feature to more customized niche communities. With this new feature any one can create a community of their niche topic.
The communities will reside on subdomains at mixx, limited customization can be done by changing the header, colors and logo. This feature is great if you want to create a [...]

In the last few days we have seen rumors about Ask.com working with Digg to create a white label Digg like site. The project is “BigNews” and is not a Digg clone but rather a Google News/Techmeme like news tracker.

Techcrunch is reporting that frustrated Digg contributors are heading over to Mixx, a new web 2.0 site for social news.
What is Mixx
Mixx has the same functionality as Digg, users can share stories, vote on favorites and comment on the stories. Mixx has categories lke Tech, News, Business, Sports, Science etc. Your Mixx section shows [...]

One of the worst things about Digg RSS feeds is that they doesn’t point directly to original articles with out going to Digg. If you are like me you don’t want to go to Digg (to read those funny comments). For my own use I have cloned an existing Yahoo Pipes Digg Feed and created [...]

Intel launched a digg clone called Cool Software that lets users rank the cool software applications.
The site is mainly focussed on software business ideas and help to keep track of the the next big idea.
According to Venturebeat the site cost around $40,000 to launch and tested internally before launching it to public.
If [...]

Digg is introducing new features this year and today night they are releasing the first of these, new digg user profiles. Digg claims to be revamped the profiles from the ground up- making it easy to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content by seeing what your friends are digging.
The other important [...]