One of my favourite sites for technology news is Digg.com. It was
this site that inspired me to create the more narrowly focused (and much less
used) kick sites such as DotNetKicks.com, GoogleKicks.com, MacKicks.com and
SharePointKicks.com.
Here are three features that I would like to see on Digg:
- Tagging
Tagging would give us more powerful ways to organise and find stories on Digg.
A nice result of this is that Digg could offer us many different levels of tag
cloud views. Each user would have their own, we could also view the tag cloud
of stories that our friends are digging.
Example : http://www.dotnetkicks.com/users/gavinjoyce/tags
- Ad Revenue Sharing
It would be a great for users and us submitters of stories to get a
small taste of Digg's Google advertising revenue. This would provide further
incentive for users to post quality links, and would in turn result in an even
higher quality homepage feed. Digg.com is currently ranked 116 on Alexa. They are generating a large
amount of traffic resulting a nice stream of advertising revenue. Submitters
whose stories make the homepage could expect a nice pay day even if their
Google ads were shown only 25% of the time. We might even start hearing of Digg
millionaires ;)
Example : http://www.dotnetkicks.com/docs/earnmoney
- Dynamic Digg it! Image for Blogs
Many blogs have added the 'digg it' link to the footer of their
blog, providing dynamic image with the digg count would take this one step
further.
Example 1 : http://weblogs.asp.net/gavinjoyce/
(the 'kick it' images display the number of kicks a story has received.)
Example 2 : http://www.dotnetkicks.com/feeds/rss
(each story in the RSS feed includes a dynamic kick count image)
