We’ve known about it for weeks (despite Netscape’s claims that our post was innacurate), but now it’s confirmed: AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a social news portal.

Every year thousands visit the garages where Hewlett-Packard and Apple were hatched. But the hottest tech companies out there weren't all started in a car lot.

"Summing it up, only one new script had to be written and some minor changes to existing scripts had to be made to generate the new website." Sweet! A neat feed page until Digg implements their official version!

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Plime is a pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone.

The Digg Comment Stalker shows you comments left by a particular Digg user. Just enter the person's Digg username, and click "Show Comments".

With the release of their API's, sites like Digg, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube are taking the web by storm. Here's a look at their plans for web domination.

Pligg put itself up for sale last week. Now VideoSift, the largest user of Pligg ’s software, says they are leaving Pligg and have developed their own software. VideoSift says their new platform is built exclusively for video aggregation and will serve

Duels is a new online role playing game that I’ve wasted most of the evening on. It’s both a social network and role playing game - create a World of Warcraft type character, buy him or her armor, weapons, etc., and then challenge other players to due

Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.

The Web wunderkind dreamed up Pownce in his off-hours from his other hot ventures, Digg and Revision3. Investors are ready to, well, pounce

Why is it that the Digg Podcast section's comment system looks way nicer? It implements the ability to reply to nested comments (more than one level), but yet still keeps the look that we have been familiar with and have grown to use. Is it just me, or is

Loading one set of replies sometimes loads as slowly as loading the page with all comments expanded. Dear Digg: we are not going to be force fed this POS. Get over yourselves and realize that this new system is not working out.

For those of you who have been actively using Digg and requesting updates to comments, the wait is over - much faster page load times, better threading, and in-line replies. Also, check out the viewing options to change how comments are displayed. If you