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The codes are a-changin

Digg will be undergoing some significant updates, but upon first glance, it may seem that nothing has changed. That�??s because the changes included in the coming release are 100% under the hood. For the last few months, Digg�??s developers have been heads down scrubbing, cleaning, porting and improving the core code of Digg. Before I get into the details, I want to give a big thanks to everyone on Digg�??s development team. They�??ve done a great job with what, technically, is one of the largest pushes Digg�??s released.

The Elgg Way

It has been a busy few weeks. Those of you who have been following the cut and thrust of development and tracking SVN will have noticed a fair few extra features and functionality and a lot of core code changes - extra tools, new activity viewing code, many speed improvements, a central entity icon API, bug fixes etc.

Yahoo Launches Social Media Profiles From New Angle

Last month, Yahoo Mash was shut down before ever leaving beta form. They have not completely abandoned social media. And now, Yahoo has renewed its attempt to making its site more social, with the rolling out a beta of its recently updated �??universal profile�?? system, Thursday.

Drupal Views 2.0 module officially released!

Three and a half months ago, Views, along with CCK and OG were made available as a release candidates. Today, I've finally come to the conclusion that the remaining bugs are minor enough to go ahead with an official, formal release of Views 2, and we can finally say that this module is now out and available. Yes, it actually beat Panels 2 to final release!

Japan’s Sense of Privacy Squashes Social Networking

Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's.It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs in her spare time, along with her name, plus personal details and ramblings in slightly awkward English about her love life.

FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

Twitter appears to have an unassailable lead in users and their resultant Follow clouds. Though Track is dead and IM is postponed indefinitely, the service has added a political track page with a company-selected keyword cluster around the political race. The result: a rapid flow of unmoderated comments with no social graph or conversational elements.

PollDaddy Goes Automattic

For a year or two now, I�??ve been minorly obsessed with polls and surveys as a method of lightweight interaction that engages casual users of your website and also can get you some really fun data to play with. I�??ve also mentioned at a few WordCamps that a polling plugin is one of the top 10 WordPress plugins in the world. Polls are really popular with WordPress users.

The Social Media Classroom: A New Web 2.0 Platform For Education

The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom.

What Happens to Our Social Profiles After We Die?

Social networking sites may in time change ownership. They and the data stored on them will almost certainly exist longer than their creators. All too often, these profiles serve as online memorials, obituaries, and a last place for loved ones and the general public to honor the dead.

Gauge Your Social Media IQ in Real Time With HubPages

HubPages is one of the "newer" social media content sites �?? and in my opinion, one of the most exciting. The most fascinating aspect of HubPages is the algorithm that determines an author's and an article�??s "HubScore."