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POPSSkype Outage Highlights Mahalo's Faults? No offense Allen but you're just plain wrong here. Yes Mahalo doesn't pick up "new" news as quickly as automated bots, again just like Alexa as long as you understand how the data is collected this shouldn't be a surprise. The important question here is; Will the Skype outage of Thursday August 16th 2007 really go down as a "newsworthy" topic? One that would warrant a complete page on Mahalo? The answer is No, of course not, the story barely belongs in Google's index as I'm sure it's already been resolved and 99.99998% of the population didn't even notice. As far as Mahalo using social news site to promote original articles I don't really take issue with that, Jason will just need to be careful not to focus too much on that sort of social baiting. As you can see from Digg, most social communities tend to boil down the the least common denominator as the audience exands.
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POPSGoogle Not Going After Digg & Netscape ... Yet Mashable had the hot steaming news about Google's new commenting system for it's News service. Before you start getting all giddy it's only open to companies and organizations "related" to the news story. Beyond the editorial nightmare what surprised me was the restraint here by Google. They could have started the process of Digg/Netscape annihilation by bringing Social news to the "true" masses. Oh well, I'll give them 6 months.
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POPSThe Biggest Digg Whores Not exactly whores, but very popular on the front page of Digg. This little run down by Glen Allsopp shows the top 5 most Dugg blogs ever. I'd be interested in seeing the long tail on this, who makes up the stars in the minor leagues?
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POPSAGLOCO Payout Rates a Disaster! If the math done by John Chow is correct and any indication of real payout rates for the AGLOCO network, the concept and company is doomed for failure. With over 21 thousands referrals John (and the network) is making almost nothing for their efforts.