news.cnet.com — HP has published a highly detailed report (PDF warning) on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Digg.com and Google's YouTube, the two concocted not one, but three ways to predict how much traffic and overall user interaction a story or submitted video will receive.
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kragneracNov 14, 2008
A glitch in the Matrix? I knew it!
savocadoNov 14, 2008
It works Bitches!
mtheoryxNov 14, 2008
The bacon is a lie; however, the cake is very real...and delicious.
kthxbai85Nov 14, 2008
Thanks, arjie, I like you. There is a nice person on Digg after all.
digg4robNov 15, 2008
I thought Digg was supposed to be a bit more enjoyable than a scientific attempt to be a minor celebrity!
joefromwiNov 29, 2008
I admit, I know little about this industry. But when I sit down and digg stuff, I find that I am done digging after about 20 minutes. Which means I've reached the point where I'm reading headlines that I dugg up yesterday. It would be cool if there was about 5 hours worth of material to sort through at any given moment. I figure, with digg.com's user base, there must be at least 500 people submitting on a regular basis. So where is the content? I am a n00b to the site and I could be doing something wrong, but there is a mysterious lack of content. Where do you find the articles that have 10 or less diggs? I'm as interested in buried stories as un-buried stories. If something is buried it could possibly present a bias. I read through digg unbiasedly, as one shoudl of course. Overall, digg has gone from obscurity to my favorite website. In fact I've never appreciated the format of a website more than digg. I dugg over 1000 stories in about a week. I imagine I will be a longtime user. Thanks for your great service.