No More Flooded Voting At Digg
January 24, 2008
Social networks have become a target for marketers and spammers shortly after they gained enourmous popularity. This negative trend hit even Digg, a social network that pay attention on good quality. The way many acted there was to stimulate group voting on their submissions and this way to get traffic to their sites.
More diversity in Digging activity
Digg has announced major change to the their Algorithm. It would prevent group voting up stories. According to Kevin Rose, the changes aim to ensure that “the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page.”
Take a look at what did he say:
“As we point out in our FAQ, occasionally you will see stories in the upcoming section with 100+ Diggs - this is evidence of our promotion algorithm hard at work. One of the keys to getting a story promoted is diversity in Digging activity. When the algorithm gets the diversity it needs, it will promote a story from the Upcoming section to the home page. This way, the system knows a large variety of people will be into the story.”
A Little Help To My Hosting Friends
January 23, 2008
This article features a particular hosting company, something I’m usually reluctant to do. It is however about a web host that I created with another guy in 2000 - Host Color. This company experienced significant growth since I left the position CEO, responsible for Marketing there. I was sure that having me out of the company they did better job 
Just kidding! Anyway I spoke to Alexander from Host Color and he told me that his company have launched a big promotional campaign on Managed Dedicated Hosting through their HostColorSerers.com subsidiary. They now offer Dedicated and Managed servers with Waived set-up fee, Doubled RAM and added 1 Free servie month to all customers. I’ve seen that Managed Intel Xeon 2.4GHZ Managed server with 2 x 160GB SATA HDD and 2 GB RAM now costs $249 per month, and customer get first one at no charge.
I can only add that Host Color is quality web host and I don’t remember any unhappy customers there. Since I promised my blog readers to be objective I’ll say that there were some tech issues in 2003 but at the time the company hosted its servers with former Rackshack, a company that had very bureaucratic tech support. But since then, Host Color moved to higher class facility in South Bend Indiana and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. That helped them to be more independent in process of building quality hosting infrastructure.
A Little Help to My Friends
You know the Beatles song “With a little help from my friends” I started my web hosting consultancy business with a little help from my friends and now I’m happy to do a small favour to them.
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