Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting'

Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by danso on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:34AM (#9375003)

Since its demise and revival by Betaworks, Digg has actually been one of my favorite front pages...somewhere between HN/NYT, and Reddit. They have a few clickbait things but mostly a pretty interesting variety of aggregated stories. This was the first time I've seen them publish their own articles (though I think they've been doing videos for some time)

Also, to give credit where it's due: Digg was one of the few places to follow through on the "let's make something better" after Google Reader closed shop...I hadn't used Google Reader in awhile so I've forgotten what features it excelled on, but Digg's reader is the only feed reader I use currently: http://digg.com/reader

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Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by bane on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:09PM (#9375711)

I was not aware of either of these things, having written off digg a long time ago. I'm going to definitely check both out.

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Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by kindlez on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @02:06PM (#9376161)

You should give Snapzu (http://snapzu.com) a try. We're trying to keep improving on it, so any feedback is welcome!

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Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by nols on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @02:39PM (#9376371)

I used to use Snapzu but forcing users to click a link twice (once to take you to the Snapzu comment page and then again to "Continue Reading") to navigate to the article is awful and probably a large reason people give up on it.

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Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by nodata on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @07:26AM (#9380171)

Digg does the same with videos. Very frustrating.

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Re:Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting' by presty on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @10:50AM (#9381313)

also one of my frontpages. digg reader replaced google reader for me and now I end up checking their top stories once a while

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