This week The Drill Down crew discuss Facebook Deals, Facebook buys Drop.io and gains a CEO, FARK’s Drew Curtis defends Reddit from Stewart/Colbert, the dawn of promoted tweets, a very public (and seemingly personal) feud between Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, Reddit Chief Chris Slowe leaves for Hipmunk, the real reason the white iPhone 4 [...]
This week, the Drill Down Crew welcome Bracken MacLeod, moderator of Reddit’s Zombies subreddit, as we discuss– what else, zombies, including Sears’ ghoulish zombie-themed site. Later we welcome Digg user Lt. Gen. Panda, as he discusses research into Digg’s API that uncovered an army of Digg-created accounts used to test (and allegedly inflate story counts). [...]
This week, Tom and Andy discuss Digg’s BP ad and its new CEO, the debut of Windows Phone 7, the effectiveness of twitter on social activism. Driverless Google cars, cracking glass on the iPhone 4, the popularity of smartphone apps, and Facebook loves Bing.
UPDATED: 10/8/2010 – 2:07 p.m. CST Digg removed a BP America sponsored submission from their front page after determining it “crossed the acceptable threshold” of negative community feedback, the company stated on its official Twitter account. The submission — Offshore world looks good after Gulf oil spill, scientists say (with video) – attempted to downplay [...]
This week we’re joined by Brian Howard, editor for The Daily Green as we discuss Digg’s decline, Blockbuster files for bankruptcy, Facebook founder’s new fortune, AOL acquires TechCrunch, and Google Voice is finally coming to the iPhone.
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