Ever since Digg launched it’s Recommendation Engine, it has been looking for ways to use the data it is collecting.
Yesterday morning, after some complaints and issues with a few minor ‘token invalid’ errors, a new feature was added to the Digg article/comment pages.
Before the change, Digg would show other content that was ‘related by keyword‘ under the current submission and above the comments.
Digg now shows content that was dugg by people who also dugg the current submission.
Since the ‘related by keyword’ suggestions are typically outdated, anywhere from 3 months to 2 years old, this is a welcomed change and much more useful to Diggers.
1) Please add a politics section similar to usatodays.
2) make sure you get peoples demographics (age, race, gender, zip code) – this allows you to analyze what people are viewing and where to expand (e.g. males 18-29 like sports – football so have a more defined section there)
3) Consider expansion to other ideas/thoughts. e.g. ‘Dream It Do It’ community (didico.com) where people enter their ideas and thoughts perhaps through diggs facebook link and from that you can analyze what they want in life and hence bring in relevant info (e.g, top schools for vets, people who teach you about writing books) – you then get teh advertising revenue and opportunity to buy the best ideas for yourself and develop – revenue stream !!!
thanks for the 411 dawg
Actually I kinda prefer the keyword one, it makes more sense as it shows content you’re more likely to be interested on by topic – rather then articles that a few diggers liked.
I notice you get a lot of “Political Stories” and then related to it is some really obscure outlandish comic that isn’t really all that interesting.
i like this but i still think digg is pretty gamed by its power users. I’d like to see digg get around that.