codyg1985’s Think Tank

I love to visit social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit. Those sites comprise about 75% of my news gathering on a typical day.  It is a great way of keeping up with not only news events, but funny, informative, and even sometimes blasphemous material. However, these sites are a two-way street: your reputation […]

As the former administrator of an online community, I learned a few things about what it takes to run a forum.  As I look back I also realized a few things that should have been done differently.  Often I wonder what it would take to start a community to begin with. What does it take […]

Tired of squinting at small text on a webpage? Tired of trying to determine where one paragraph ends and another begins? Well, so are the Information Architects.  I can’t agree more with what they have to say about text on webpages.  The readability of a webpage is one of the first things I […]

Courtesy Reddit: Normally it’s okay to post a picture of your desktop on an internet forum, right? Well, you’d better be careful about exactly what’s on your desktop before you post it. In this case, this person didn’t really pay close enough attention to what was on his desktop before posting.
Look carefully for […]

Courtesy Digg: Some unlucky seller on eBay accidentally set the buy-it-now price for a Sony PlayStation 3 for $0.99 instead of the starting bid. Bye-bye profit, and so much for those forty hours spent waiting to buy it.
The package comes with extra controller, games, and a two-year warranty.

So I go to login to MySpace to see what’s going on there.  I notice that a lot of my friends are posting bulletins about free PlayStation 3 consoles, animated smileys, profile trackers, and Lord knows what else from the bowels of the internet.  But these things don’t appear just once.  Oh, far from it. […]

Recently, Netscape decided to launch a competing website aimed squarely at Digg, one of many “social bookmarking” websites that rely solely on user-submitted items to deliver content. This blog post by ZDNet takes a look into just how much each user of these social networking sites is worth.
While traffic and usage numbers have grown […]

eBay is set to unveil AdContext, a keyword-based advertising engine that will compete with Google and Yahoo. The ads will contain links to auctions that are related by keyword to whatever page that ad appears on.
Examples cited of how the new system would work included a sports website that would carry links to eBay […]

Digg, the technology-oriented social bookmarking website, is about to expand its horizons to include more general subject matters, such as world news, entertainment news, and financial news. The changes will occur in about a month.
Personally, I think this move was inevitable with the increasing popularity of the website. Digg is already a forefront […]

You wonder why I am not surprised by this? The National Security Agency (NSA), who was revealed to have been purchasing phone records of innocent Americans, is now funding research for a new front on the ever-increasing reach of the U.S. government. That new front is the many social networking websites such as […]