Business Week reports:

"Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. 'Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,' says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have dug and 'buried'—the site's term for voting down a story."

Oh, you mean like this?

I've been thinking recently that it'd be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we?

archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD.

blog.netscape.com: the official blog of Netscape Communications Corporation.

calacanis.com: The blog of Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur.

digg.com: User-driven social content. A great place to stay current on (mostly) tech news.

chrisfinke.com: Duh.

fark.com: It's not news, it's one of the Internet's greatest time-wasters.

gmail.google.com: The best webmail application ever.

hyperculture.typepad.com: A fairly interesting blog that covers various tech news.

imdb.com: The Internet Movie Database. I probably used it last to see what other movies the actors from The Office have been in.

jacob.chrisfinke.com: My little brother's website.

kb.mozillazine.org: Documentation for Mozilla products.

lifeintheoffice.com: A blog that covers all things Office.

meatgasm.com: A blog focusing on the wonderful world of meat.

netscape.com: Social news with editorial oversight.

opera.com: The Opera Web browser.

php.net: Documentation for the PHP programming language.

q - None. Apparently, I haven't visited a domain starting with "q" in the last month.

reddit.com: Another social news website.

slashdot.org: The place to discuss the latest tech news.

techmeme.org: The place to find the latest tech news.

userstyles.org: A repository of styles for Mozilla applications. They have some great Firefox customizations.

videos.netscape.com: The Popular Videos channel of Netscape.com.

woot.com: An online store: One Day, One Deal.

xulplanet.com: Documentation for the XUL markup language.

youtube.com: Oh, you haven't heard of it? It's this obscure unknown website where people upload videos of themselves tubing down various rivers of the world.

zefrank.com: The funniest three minutes of my day.

I think this list sums me up pretty well. I'm not sadistic enough to try to turn this into a pyramid meme, but does anyone else want to reveal the A-Z of their browser history?

C.K. announced yesterday his departure from Netscape. It's really too bad; he's been an incredible boss and an exciting person to be around. I especially enjoyed the caffeine-fueled afternoon when we created the Netscape Digg Tracker. Good times, good times...

He'll be sorely missed, but I don't harbor any sore feeling towards him for leaving. If I could get multiple job offers by just announcing my availability on my blog, I'd probably weigh my options too. ;-)

I've just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first Wordpress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to that post. When it has at least one visit logged for a post, it displays a graph of visitors per hour, as well as a list of referrering sites and how many visitors each sent your way.

The full writeup and download are available over here; now all I have to do is write something in my blog that is interesting enough to get submitted to Digg or Netscape...

On November 9, Wired Blogs ran an article "quoting" Digg founder Kevin Rose as saying that 20 new features would be added to Digg over the next month. (I say "quoting" because the phrase was not actually in quotes, but it can be deduced that Kevin said or implied it at some point during the interview.) That was 32 days ago, so let's do an overview of the improvements we've seen to Digg since then:

Uh... hmm... er...

That's right - despite boasting of nearly two dozen new features to come, not a single one has been introduced. This brings a few questions to mind: where are they? What are they? Maybe the most important question of all is "Are they?" (as in "Do they actually exist?").

If Digg actually had 20 new features due to be released by December 10 and none of them made it, they need to take a serious look at their development cycle. Heck, even Netscape released more features for Digg in that timeframe than Digg did.