If you’d come up to me just a couple days ago and asked if Digg were going to survive for the long haul, I’d have sadly opined, “No.&#. By way of background, here’s the 50-cent version of my Digg story: Account since 2007, active user since early 2008. 130,847 diggs, 18,960 comments, 3,466 submissions and 1,054 popular stories. won’t belabor the story about how Digg totally screwed up the site with Version 4. And numbers don’t lie: Whether traffic to or on Digg itself is up or down isn’t really the important thing. MORE >>

Introducing Users to the Concept of Meeting Workspaces in MOSS 2007. Read more about: MOSS 2007. She is co-author of Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration. Friday, June 27, 2008. Research Centers. Security. Anti-Virus / Spyware / Spam. Compliance & Regulation. Firewalls / VPN / Intrusion. Services. Cisco Security Watch. Microsoft Security Watch. LANs & WANs. Broadband Services. Ethernet Switches. Metro Ethernet. Routers. WAN Optimization. VoIP & Convergence. IP PBX. Unified Communications. VoIP Services. Network Management. Security. MORE >>

If you were a top Digg user, you had clout (not klout, that’s for newbies, stick with me here) in the newly emerging Web 2.0 Digg, the once frontrunner of the pack, started mindlessly catering to the publishers only. And now Digg’s been sold. Digg has been sold to BetaWorks for 500k (ok maybe more like 16million if you count the IP rights with LinkedIn and Washington Post ). Don’t forget one of the biggest potential moments for Digg with a whopping $200 million Google  acquisition that was rumored to be on the table. Early Times. world. MORE >>

TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy practically writes an epitaph today for Digg following news that the company's cofounder Kevin Rose, the face of the company since its inception, had resigned to pursue a new and unannounced startup. The backdrop of her story is a detailed article she wrote on Rose and the Digg phenomenon back in 2006, when she, then writing for BusinessWeek, placed Kevin on the cover with a youthful grin and headline blaring how he was worth $60 million. That Kevin had shifted priorities away from Digg some time ago was no secret to those who watched. Same people. MORE >>

What if the infamous Digg algorithm just one day up and went open source?! It is the intangible looming force that keeps every Digg users from burying all submissions above and below their own. The verb gaming (meaning to cheat) would replace digging in this world of social media if we knew how Digg ticked. Digg this! Tags: Digg This is a guest post by MikeonTV , an intrepid and prolific social media user. His tech opinion blog Fashionably Great launches Jan 1st 2008. Here’s a what if for you. Questions like, what exactly is my karma at? Oh well. MORE >>