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Adobe AIR platform was finally taken out of beta. I have been playing around with AIR for some time now, with AIR beta 2, and then beta 3. When AIR 1 was released, I was very excited and downloaded it.

Pownce is a great social networking site, but as with many other things, going to the site for each update is cumbersome, not to mention that it is inefficient and reduces productivity (especially the blogging side of productivity).

Did you know? An incredible 60 stories are promoted to the front page of Digg everyday. Each of those stories receive several thousand hits in a day.

With such power, Digg is the most popular social media site on the internet (though not always the most favourite among webmasters/bloggers), and it commands respect and authority of great magnitudes. Entire sites can be made/broken by Digg because of the flood of visitors, and making the front page of Digg, staying there and getting dugg massively is the wet dream of every webmaster.

It was a good Christmas eve for me, with one of my posts hitting the front page and getting 700+ diggs. This is an expression of my thoughts about the digg and related issues. This site is hosted on Dreamhost, which ’supposedly’ buckles under the pressure of a Digg and the site goes offline. I have more to say on this, read on.

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Warning: Bragging ahead

Web spam is on the rise, and how! Ask any person who owns a comment-enabled blog, and they’ll tell you a career of spam fighting. On a smaller scale, just check your email inbox, and you would find thousands of spam mails every week.

With spamming at such an alarming rate, it is only natural and inevitable that there will be some preventive measures. The solutions to spam are many: from word and phrase filtering (emails) to user IP detection and user ID cross-checking (blogs) to the the ever-evading CAPTCHA images (online forms).

Digg is arguably the most powerful social networking site. Thousands flock to it every day in search of sensational news and information. Sites which get to the front page of Digg get several thousand page views in a matter of hours. This has resulted in the popularity of the “Digg effect”, which means that poorly optimized sites and those on poor hosts go down, unable to handle the flood of visitors.