Digg Rates High on Social Architecture
Digg posting: “Here’s an idea: The genius of Digg is that it packs a simple user action with the maximum social intent. A Digg is a single click–about as simple as it gets–and yet it’s the central component of the community.”
Gene Smith’s article provides a great graph for rating social network sites. The graph’s Y-axis rates how social the social network is by rating how much people participate together or is it just a place to do personal stuff. The X-axis rates how the social network engages people to participate in the network. A person just providing a rating by clicking a button is not very engaged, but a person leaving a comment is engaged in the social network. For Digg, a social news site, they get good marks as a social network for both social intent and engagement.