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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: A.nnotate, AddThis, AddToAny, Areapal, BibSonomy, BookmarkSync, Broowaha, CiteULike, COLOURlovers, Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms, Connotea, Delicious (website), Digg, Diigo, Faves.com, Flattr, Folkd, Folksonomy, Furl, GiveALink.org, Gnolia, Google Bookmarks, Hacker News, Licorize, Linkwad, List of social bookmarking websites, MemeStreams, Meneame, Mister Wong, Models of collaborative tagging, NewsTrust, Newsvine, Oneview, Pearltrees, Pinboard (website), PopUrls, Propeller.com, Reddit, Regator, Scuttle (software), ShareThis, Simpy, SiteBar, Social bookmark link generator, StumbleUpon, Sturvs, Taringa!, Twine (website), Wink Technologies, Yahoo! Buzz, Yardbarker. Excerpt: Digg is a social news website. It allows people to vote web content up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. News and publisher streams were added with Digg v4 in August 2010. Quantcast estimates Digg's monthly U.S. unique visits at 3.8 million. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems; one of those competitors, Reddit, was ranked 500 places higher than Digg by website traffic analysts Alexa.com on December 19, 2012. In July 2008, the company took part in advanced acquisition talks with Google for a reported $200 million price tag, but the deal ultimately fell through. Four years later, on July 12, 2012, Digg was sold in three parts: the Digg brand, website and technology were sold to Betaworks for an estimated $500,000; 15 staff were transferred to the Washington Post's SocialCode for a reported $12 million; and a suite of patents were sold to LinkedIn for about $4 million. Digg, Version 1.6Digg started as an experiment in November 2004 by collaborators Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. The original design by Dan Ries was free of advertisements. The company added Google AdSense early in the project but switched to MSN adCenter in 2007. The site's main function is to let users discover, share and recommend web content. Members of the community can submit a webpage for general consideration. Other members can vote that page up ("digg") or down ("bury"). Although voting takes place on digg.com, many websites add "digg" buttons to their pages, allowing users to vote as they browse the web. The end product is a series of wide-ranging, constantly updated lists of popular and trending content from around the Internet, aggregated by a social network. Additions and improvements were made throughout the website's first years. Digg v2 was released in July 2005, with a new interface by web design company silverorange. New features included a friends list, and the abil
