web 2.0 links

Guy Kawasaki's site where people can collectively share rumors and discuss
Keywords: rumors, digg, news, gossip, buzz, guy kawasaki

Funny set of cartoons illustrating the vibe of Reddit, Slashdot, Delicious and Digg.
Keywords: article, funny, cartoon, parody, digg, slashdot, reddit, delicious, social media

Getting listed in social sites or “folksonomies” like digg, Netscape, Reddit and Fanpop, may help generate links and improve your search engine ranking.
Keywords: article, web 2.0, digg, reddit, fanpop

When it comes to digg.com a lot of folks think that the system is rigged in favor of the top 30 users on the site. To that end a new site, Spike the Vote, has popped up that they say will level the playing field.
Keywords: article, digg, social bookmarking

Interesting post-mortem on one blogger's firsthand experience with the digg effect (he also includes a nice mention of fanpop too!).
Keywords: article, digg effect, traffic, social media

WEB2.0
Keywords: blog, web 2.0, analysis, companies, social networks, news, reviews, digg, articles, youtube, list

Plentyoffish founder Markus Frind analyzes Digg's server setup and concludes that their low pageview per server count is both ineffieicent and costly for the company and could turn into its achilles heel.
Keywords: article, digg, infrastructure

Critique about the wisdom-of-crowds theory as applied on Digg. Asserts taht the decisions of a few individuals carries a disproportionally strong effect on the overall group behavior on Digg.com. So rather than a crow, you have herd behavior.
Keywords: article, digg, social media, wisdom of crowds, analysis, commentary

SEOmoz comments on the strategy at Netscape to pay the top 1% of their users to participate. What are the impacts of this new model? Is it a long term help or hindrance to community?
Keywords: article, analysis, social medial, digg, netscape

Digg inspired a lot of competition. But are any of these sites successful? Here's a list of the most successful people-powered news sites (as well as a list of the failures).
Keywords: article, digg, news filtering