http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/social+news used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/digg_bring_its_own_special_variety_democracy_advertising <!--paging_filter--><p>Social news website Digg announced plans to take its news ranking system and apply the same concept to a new advertising platform. Called Digg Ads, you, the reader, will have greater control over which ads are displayed and which ones gets buried, the site says. </p> <p>&quot;The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay,&quot; <a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=808">Digg wrote</a> in a blog. &quot;Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system.&quot;</p> <p>Digg says the new ad platform will initially debut as a pilot program later this summer. The ads will appear next to stories in the river, with sponsored content taking on a similar look and feel to regular stories. However, the site says advertisements will be &quot;clearly marked as sponsored.&quot; </p> <p>According to Digg, this system represents a win-win proposition for both readers and advertisers, giving the former a way to control what content appears, and the latter real-time input on whether or not their products are relevant to the readership. </p> <p align="center"><img src="/files/u69/Digg.png" width="415" height="308" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small">Image Credit: Digg </span></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/digg_bring_its_own_special_variety_democracy_advertising#comments News ads advertising bury digg dugg social news Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:30:00 -0500 Paul Lilly 6534 at http://www.maximumpc.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/usercontrolled_digg_minisites_ease_fierce_battle_diggs_front_page <!--paging_filter--><div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/u46168/digg.jpg" width="415" height="311" /></div> <p>In the midst of rumors regarding Google being close on the heels of a $200 million takeover of Digg, there is news of a major addition to the populist news aggregator. Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced at a party - attended by 300 fans of the website – that in the next 6 months <a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/news/wrigleyville/2008/07/24/diggcom-chicago-town-hall-wrap-up-developing-sub-diggs-partnering-with-">users will be able to create their own sub-Diggs</a>, whereby they will be fully in control of the mini-websites. </p> <p>They will get to decide the number of stories that are flashed on the front page of their website. This obviously means that the cutthroat scuffle for a place on the main website’s front page will relax a touch in coming times as some of the traffic will be diverted to the user-controlled sub-Diggs. Some of you might be aware that such sub-sites are already available on Reddit and Mixx. However, the addition of this feature on Digg should have a far-reaching impact and might even make life even more difficult for Digg-clones.</p> <p><em>Image Credit: ValleyWag </em></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/usercontrolled_digg_minisites_ease_fierce_battle_diggs_front_page#comments News digg Internet maxx reddit social news Software sub-diggs sub-sites Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:35:06 -0500 Pulkit Chandna 2935 at http://www.maximumpc.com