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[PIC] Paris Hilton Top Digger – NSFW

digibuilder — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:25:27 +0000

I had no idea Paris Hilton was one of the Top Diggers :p

Leave Britney Alone (Or Why Chris Crocker Desperately Needs Me)

digibuilder — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:10:27 +0000

What to do with a successful viral campaign? Does Buzz equals Profits? What about potential side effects of popularity such as negative criticism? What to do about Reputation? Chris Crocker spontaneous online popularity raises many questions. This post is not an attempt to solve all of them, but an analysis of the problem (ending with a little sham

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Facebook: Despite Concerns, The Buzz Goes On

digibuilder — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:44:35 +0000

Despite privacy concerns and complaints about sexual predators (about which Facebook has decided not to do anything and is now being investigated), the Facebook buzz machine is going strong, valuating the company at $10 billion.

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New Digg Spamming Technique: Shout = Spam

digibuilder — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:53:55 +0000

With the new Digg Interface they obviously tried to make it easier to interact with friends and to send messages, ahem, shouts, I mean SPAM messages to other users.Or is it just me that has been receiving tons of Shouts like the following:

Hi, what do you think of think?

http://digg.com/story_some_spammer_wants_me_to_digg

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Been there, done that: Goosen ready to do it again

digibuilder — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:41:44 +0000

Two television cameramen, five photographers and a quartet of sportswriters laid in wait outside the ropes that framed the ninth green at The Royal Montreal Golf Club, though. The solitude of this sunny, breezy, autumn afternoon was over.

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Ahmadinejad speaks; outrage and controversy follow

digibuilder — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:38:00 +0000

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday challenged a university audience to look into “who was truly involved” in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, defended his right to question established Holocaust history and denied there were gay Iranians.

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Monks relaunch protests in Myanmar

digibuilder — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:37:07 +0000

Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics, relaunching mass protests Tuesday in the country’s two biggest cities.

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30 Reasons to Quit Smoking

digibuilder — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:02:24 +0000

The funniest ones include:
“Your non smoker friends, wife/husbands, business associates will stop complaining about you being a chimney”, “You will make it to old with all your teeth”, “You will make it to old”, “Your skin won’t look like Freddy Kruegers”

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Extract silver from ore, win $10,000,000

digibuilder — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:05 +0000

Barrick Gold has a problem. It’s got a whop of silver in Argentina, but it’s tapped in silica-encapsulated ore. If you can “unlock the value” — ie figure out a way to economically boost their current 6.7 per cent recovery rate — they’ll give you a cool $10 mil. Kinda like the X Prize, only underground.

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