Digg is getting into the breaking news business with a new layer of editorial control.
And what about the communities at digg, reddit, StumbleUpon and other social media sites?
You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company.
By the end of 2010, Digg's audience had fallen by more than half, according to ComScore.
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Digg's a great site, and it claims to have 20 million unique monthly viewers.
So far 27 Web sites have joined the drop-down column, including Facebook and Digg.
But whether Digg will go down, or even face a legal fight, is far from clear.
"In order for Digg to survive, it must abide by the law, " he wrote.
That letter was what prompted Digg's initial take-down of the links to begin with.
But even if posting the code is illegal, is that Digg's problem or its users?
But no launch comes without its hiccups and Digg has not been an exception.
In fact, he seems to have relatively few regrets on his time spent at Digg.
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Some are worried that if it can happen to Digg, it can happen to anyone.
Moreover, Twitter and Digg are different media that call for different forms of engagement.
However, his comments were not enough to prevent Digg's once-loyal users from hijacking the site.
At one point, six out of the seven top stories on Digg pointed to Reddit.
Digg said Friday it will host a "Dialogg" with Toyota USA President Jim Lentz.
The company says Dialogg leverages Digg's strength in "curating" information and opinion across millions of users.
"You don't have to interpret what people are saying, " says Mike Maser, Digg's chief strategist.
Digg also hopes its Dialogg events can set it apart from Twitter and Facebook.
Blatant self-promotion, in particular, has to be well hidden from Digg's cynical users, according to Neil Patel.
Eventually, Digg founder Kevin Rose conceded and gave users the go-ahead to post the code after all.
Rutchik says Digg will have to think carefully about whether it wants to use the same argument.
Among social media sites, it tracks the top seven: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Myspace and Digg.
Never happened, says, Greylock partner David Sze, who has led investments in Facebook, Digg and Pandora, among others.
Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon showed how users could generate content themselves and make the overall community more valuable.
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That stunt cost a tiny sum in marketing terms, but earned the company huge traffic from Digg's record-industry-hating users.
Digg.com, whose executives couldn't be reached for comment, isn't the first site to face legal problems from user-generated content.
All of that, says Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, means Digg is in uncharted legal territory.
But as the Digg revolt shows, damage control can be difficult even when Web sites respond to legal threats.
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