#8
/ March 10, 2010 / 2:24 min.
Finding your friends on Digg
Online friends are great and all, but you'll want to connect to your real-life friends who are already using Digg. This way, you can find out what they're Digging, learn about Diggs they share and perhaps even find out what the next topic of conversation will be when next you meet up for a pint after work.
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show notes
- Adding friends on Digg helps you see what the people you care about are reading and Digging.
- Click on "add friends."
- You can have Digg look for friends who may already be using Digg from your email address books or search for friends by their email address, name, or location.
- When you find someone you want to add as a friend, click on "friend."
- If you search with a location, you'll see people who live in that area who are members of Digg.
- You can invite people to join you on Digg by entering in their email address and sending them an invite. They'll automatically be added as your friend if they join.
- Once you've added some friends, you'll see them in your profile under the friends section.
- You can click on their name and view their profile and see what they've been Digging on Digg.
- To remove someone as a friend, just click on "remove friend" from their profile page.
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#1
/ March 1, 2010 / 2:31 min.
Digg is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to social news aggregation. Perhaps you've checked it out but want to understand
how to use Digg
before diving in head-long. Perhaps you're looking for how to
get dugg
or just for a deeper
understanding of Digg
. This
video tutorial series
delivers the goods on Digg.
#2
/ March 2, 2010 / 2:40 min.
To truly
understand Digg
, you need to log in often to keep abreast of what's trending today. Web sites clamour to
get dugg
and the front page of Digg changes fast and changes often.
#3
/ March 3, 2010 / 2:23 min.
To connect to the
Digg community, share a little about yourself.
Understanding Digg
is simple; the more you use the site, the more info will accumulate in your profile - which stories you've dugg or buried, pages you've submitted and so on. You can also choose to
share personal information on Digg
.
#4
/ March 4, 2010 / 2:15 min.
The
Digg homepage is full of content the "diggnation" feels is interesting. You can customize Digg to your liking though by setting your personal media and topic preferences. See more of the Diggs you dig and less of the Diggs you don't.
#5
/ March 5, 2010 / 3:08 min.
Digg works because the community shares stories it finds funny, interesting, outlandish, controversial and any number of other descriptors. Add your voice to Digg by sharing the stuff you find. You never know, you might even
crack the Digg homepage
.
#6
/ March 8, 2010 / 2:26 min.
Comments are too often the great morass of the web. The
Digg does a little better than most sites though as the good comments tend to get "dugg" and float to the top and there's less of the "OMG EPIC!!!1!" type comments, thankfully. Add your voice to the mix and
get dugg
by commenting on Digg postings.
#7
/ March 9, 2010 / 2:38 min.
As with anything online, it's important to
understand privacy settings in Digg
. You can
set your Digg profile to private
or opt to only share information with friends and more.
#8
/ March 10, 2010 / 2:24 min.
Online friends are great and all, but you'll want to connect to your real-life friends who are already using
Digg. This way, you can find out what they're Digging, learn about Diggs they share and perhaps even find out what the next topic of conversation will be when next you meet up for a pint after work.
#9
/ March 11, 2010 / 2:13 min.
Part of the joy of
Digg comes in finding a cool URL before anyone else gets a chance to post it to the site. If it then catches fire and finds its way to the top of the homepage, you'll have experienced Digg nirvana. Using simple tools provided by Digg, you can easily check the Digg status of any site or page you visit.
#10
/ March 12, 2010 / 2:21 min.
If you have your own site, it pays to get as many eyeballs to glance upon your homepage as possible.
Digg makes it easy to leverage the power of its user community by offering Digg This buttons and applets that you can easily drop onto your site. This is the easiest way to
get your site to appear on Digg
... provided you have something Digg-worthy to offer.
about Digg 101
Digg came out of nowhere to demonstrate the massive power of user communities online. Digg can make or break a web site. Molly McDonald explains
how to use Digg
, gives solid pointers to help us
understand Digg
and even
how to get "dugg"
. From
privacy settings in Digg
to
finding your friends on Digg
and even
how to add a Digg This button to your site or blog
.