Regarding Digg social bookmarking service there are many articles written in the Internet Press. Most of them shows tips to promote a website link on the front page due to a high ratings or diggs “gained” from the Digg community. Beyond this approach, there are still important features of Digg service that are not extensively discussed in press, like the main mechanism of articles promotion, official Digg tools (Firefox add-ons, Google Coop Module, Google Gadget,MySpace widget, Digg API and other). (more…)

Del.icio.us social bookmarking service owned by Yahoo was renamed as Delicious. It has a new website and the entire range of services is powered by an improved platform that is faster and easier to use and understand.

The page loading speed and back-end response time is optimized for a server load of approximately five millions users. The website search engine was reconstructed and allows users to perform smart searches by using tags. (more…)

The popular social networking website Facebook will be powered by thousands of servers based on Intel Xeon processors over the next year. Facebook and Intel Corporation will collaborate in order to build the datacenter infrastructure and improve the hardware and software performances. (more…)