Digg has an algorithm?
Yes, just as PageRank and other algorithms are used to rank web pages by search engines, some social sites use algorithms to determine which stories become popular. Call it DiggRank, if you will. Let’s take a deeper look at what the Digg algorithm is and venture a few guesses about how it works.
TOP STORIES: Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies: It was designed for college kids. But it took legions o.. http://tinyurl.com/d2crsq (via @TIME) [from http://twitter.com/jomiralb/statuses/1212522067]
Several products have emerged in an effort to help users better manage and display all of their profiles in one place. This article will showcase these web profile aggregators more closely as we look to unify our online identities & stay updated
Here are the top 20 largest social bookmarking sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. For each site, we show unique U.S. monthly visitor data as well as respective rank.
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