Digg used to be the place to go to get your fill on social news, but lately, in conjunction with the release of Digg v4, it’s been down more often than a $5 hooker.

In the rings of social news, in the previous version Digg was tolerable, old, but tolerable. Now Digg is supposed to be new and improved and have more appeal- it doesn’t.

There’s been reports of corruption and rigging at Digg for a long time. They said with the latest release all that was going to change…

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I don’t know that there’s anything more concerning to me than what Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz.

It’s not enough that people are out there in the world, on the Internet, sharing information and conversing with their Internet buddies, but do they need to know where you are, when your doing it?

But wait, all this information is going through a server somewhere; it’s being stored and tracked and used for digital profiling- it has to be… What corporation in their right mind would pass up the chance to reference that kind of data?

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I have a Motorola Droid and I can’t seem to squeeze out any more battery life from the phone. Similar arguments could be made with any other Smartphones that are available on the market, but the realization is that the Motorola Droid almost has to have a charging cable connected to it at all times.

I find myself in situations where I’m at work, charging my phone. I’m in my car, charging my phone. I met my home and my phone is on the charger.

I can’t seem to get any more battery life out of it.

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When someone tries to go around and be omnipresent with the Internet and all their buddies it’s kind of hard to do when all the different Instant Messaging protocols are different. This makes it so much better when you’ve a program/application like DISGBY around to bring it all together.

It’s more than an Instant Messaging client for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, MySpace, and Jabber; it also brings together other social services like Facebook and Twitter posts.

Here’s what you can expect…

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Twitter is a social enigma that is just uber-popular, but now everyone is getting in to the business of cloning Twitter.

The process is kind of confusing in its application, but everyone seems to like sharing their links and their activities.

My perspective on Twitter is it’s the best search engine in the world because it’s live, actual links, people are using are being submitted to Twitter and searches can be issued against it and most likely you can find what your looking for. And so, why wouldn’t Google be interested in this type of service?

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I posted an article about Twitter and the fact that they’re not filtering their content, or more to the fact don’t offer an option to filter information. But in the past few weeks they’ve been adding a few things, and I must have been on the cuff of a movement with those guys ‘cause they’re adding little snippets here and there and making the site a little cleaner.

I’ve to admit, that other sites are really establishing themselves as an one stop shop for handling social communications [hootsuite, seesmic], but the originating sites should have a fairly neat and organized site to begin with.

So here’s some things they’re changin’…

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Who knows where Twitter is going; I don’t, but it has lacked organization for a while now. No filtering, not easy block people, not easy to report abusers and now they’ve released a ‘LIST’.

Twitter Lists, it’s a good idea, but so far bad execution. I follow a bunch of people [a bunch for me] and there’s no way to weed the ‘important’ to the ‘not so important’.

Thinking about it a little bit more…

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It’s true the guys over an eMclient are making some serious progress. In my email exchanges they have indicated they’re ‘…seriously busy’ and kudos for all the efforts and their accomplishments.

I’m a big fan of eMclient; I really want to see it succeed and flourish, but one thing about it has in common with other free and open source projects, the programmers usually can’t produce documentation was well as they can write the code.

And you know these guys are using eMclient right now, they’re coding it and they know every inch of how it works, but releasing it in to the wild with average users…

You might as well have released a $50 special jigsaw puzzle, of rock garden, to a 3yr old…

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