Digg.com was a pioneer in social news curation. Its innovation was letting readers Digg (vote for) a news story to bring it up higher in the news list or to bury it to push it down. Digg recently released a major update for its iPhone app that brings a number of enhancements.


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Two years ago (2009), I noticed that Microsoft Reader was once again being promoted on Microsoft.com after a four year absence.


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