Digg

Digg is a rapidly growing website that emphasizes technology news, and combines social bookmarking, blogging, syndication, with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ (such as Slashdot).

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Readers can view all of the stories which have been submitted by fellow users in the "digg all" section of the site. Once a story has received enough "diggs", roughly 25 or more within a certain time period, it is automatically promoted to the top of the main page. Should the story not receive enough diggs, or if enough users make use of the problem report feature to point out issues with the submission, the story eventually falls out of the queue.

Website: A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of Web pages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible generally via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. The pages of a website will be accessed from a common r...

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Social bookmarking: Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to ...