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Facebook Embarrassment For Rudy Giuliani

Another social networking embarrassment for a presidential candidate: Rudy Giuliani’s 17-year-old daughter Caroline supports Barack Obama for president over her father. Until this morning she was a member of the One Million Strong For Obama Facebook group, and lists her political views as “liberal.” Caroline removed herself from the group after Slate emailed her [...]

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reddit

reddit is a social news
website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users
may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more
or less prominently on the reddit home page.

The site has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted
links, and vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough
votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default,
although a reader can display it through a link or preference. Users
who submit articles which other users like and subsequently "vote up"
receive "karma", points which a user receives as a reward for
submitting interesting articles.

reddit also includes several topical sections called subreddits, which focus on specific topics, including programming and science.

Taking an idea from Google, the reddit logo changes for various holidays and often for no reason at all, paying homage to Star Wars, classic video games, and geek culture in general. There is an archive of the logos at redditalien.com.

Source - Wikipedia

Digg

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted
to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs
from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites
employ.

Source - Wikipedia