net@night 105

Hosts: Amber MacArthur, Sarah Lane, and Leo Laporte

Guest: Andy Baio of Waxy.org.

Facebook’s URL land rush, Twitter launches verified accounts, Andy Baio of Waxy.org, and more.

Sarah’s site of the night: Hunch.com

For Leo’s audiobook recommendations, and a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

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Digg Needs a Twitter

Digg.com, Has been an internet Leviathan for a couple of three years. It has been mimicked and cloned .but those who  try and use some of that idea, miss the one big selling point of digg.com. You get news out before anyone. (If Kevin read this far, the gears would be cranking in his already and he probably would be off building this). Everyone gets to see your post become the most popular and you get to claim some forgotten pride of producing this piece of information to the world of the less informed.

Twitter does that also. In tiny little squirts. You can become a known source of information and become dependable, at a faster pace than what digg allows you now. Digg has (for good reason) locked out all easily detectable spam methods, by slowing down the process in which you submit and verify your news. Understandable, because it was getting bad.

What twitter has that digg needs, is a phone texting measure, and a way to submit images. You can be on scene and send pictures, videos, audio instantly as news happens. You can get this to the public faster than if you sent it to some news station where “Brad” the smiley plastic head gets the credit for your work and find.. What would be the motive for doing this??

Well Chris Pirillo and his http://www.lockergnome.com/ Allows you (as I do here on my site also) to embed your adsense code into your main page of the site, allowing you to generate  well deserved income from your works. Letting you establish  an income from your credible reports. Believe me if you post junk, people stop taking you serious.

That’s what Digg can do with a Simi Twitter idea.

Let’s say it’s a twitter motivated idea.

net@night 104

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Hosts: Amber MacArthur, Sarah Lane, and Leo Laporte

Guest: David Cann of almost.at.

Facebook’s vanity URLs, tweet reading cat burglars, Keyboard Cat, Jauntsetter, and more.

Site of the week: Sarah Lane shows us Jauntsetter

Audible.com pick of the week: Raise Your Social I.Q.: How to Do the Right Thing in Any Situation , unabridged by Michael Levine, Narrated by Mary Woods. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

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