There is more activity at Digg lately. I was browsing the frontpage of digg and tried for fun to create a new account. My IP and all my accounts were banned because of submitting to much of my own stories to digg. I filled in the form and to my own surprise I was able to create a new account. I checked immediately if my banned urls were unbanned to, but they are not, too bad. At least I can vote for the good stories again and I can submit my new sites to it 
Digg also fired Google for showing the ads on the digg site. Jacob mentioned this few days ago. This is an interesting move from Digg and really positive for Microsoft’s adcenter! This is what Digg says about it:
- “We at Digg couldn’t think of a better partner to get to where we need to go,” said Jay Adelson, the company’s chief executive officer. “They’re a young ad service, they’re innovative, they’re willing to work with us on the cutting edge.”
Digg got more than 9,500,000 visitors in June, this is a massive amount and I am sure the revenue from textual ads is huge. This contract is a step in the right direction for Microsoft. They will serve the ads for 3 years.
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August 2nd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I read at shoemoney that Adcenter is a nice team to work with. it seems they are willing to work on their shortfalls and listen to publishers and advertisers too. . .it is definitly a good move.
Also, I have stopped using digg since they are not a democracy, but a bunch of power users who control everything.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
True anand, it is a shame digg is not more like Stumble Upon.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I used to really take part in the community at digg but now its rediculous
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:49 pm
my username and blog was banned, however i was able to create a new username pretty fast
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I rarely use digg. I have not yet been banned, but I just never got a front page digg before. I wouldn’t mind one, just so I can get a rush of traffic. But, this should really prove interesting for the PPC market. If people start leaving adsense and start going over to MSN, it may slap Google around a bit.
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Adcenter seems to be picking up. It will still take a lot more to reach Adsense, but its a start.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
well at least you can vote on stories now. adcenter isn’t as good as adsense but who knows it’s still in development and I think digg will help adcenter out a lot.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:20 am
Sucks for Google…Good job to Microsoft!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:10 am
A lot of webmasters at Digital Point Forums post about getting their account banned on Digg for suspicious activity and then re-creating a new one after a few days. My account got banned once, and I never tried to open another one
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am
I’m not evolved heavily in digg yet, but it’s not gonna be very late. Nice info.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:55 pm
It is indeed a step in the right direction for adcenter but adsense have a firm footing in the internet ad industry and it would be hard to dislodge them that easily.
And also, microsoft must work harder to live up to standards either better than or equal to google’s
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I don’t see the loss of digg as being a negative for Google. From what I have learned the CTR on digg is extremely low. If anything Google just got rid of one of the biggest “empty traffic” sites from their list of publishers!
August 10th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I’ve always been into Digg, more just reading and looking at stories that actually interacting, but I have found that even for stories that get 10-15 Diggs, you can generate a few hundred visitors. Then again, I only try with articles that I could see making the front page.
DevDad
August 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I’m confused here. Everyone says that Digg stoped using google, however on Digg.com I still get “Ads by Google”. I don’t understand!
August 13th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
At first, I thought it was foolish for Digg to sign a three year contract with MS. Then I thought about how I hate that half the stories on Digg these days are “HILARIOUS: STUPID PHOTO!” or something that’s already been on the front page of Digg twenty times since the site launched. I don’t think Digg is in danger of falling apart any time soon, but I do think they might be close to their peak point in terms of users and whatnot.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:40 am
I honestly would have guessed quite the opposite. I found digg, became a junkie, showed it to everyone I knew. . . We read, we laughed we dugg.. we got bored, it rarely comes up in coversation anymore, I rarely visit.
I’d have assume it’d died down considerably.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:04 am
with this deal, digg will loose alot of love from google! it’s like the case of squidoo, when ebay retired the adwords account, and squidoo was responsible for 35% of ebay traffic. Google slaped squidoo hard!