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Digg growth flat for 2007? Is their a place for social curation outside of geekdom?

Anyone else notice that Compete shows digg essentially flat in (three quarters of) ‘07? And, that’s with a lot of feature launches too - topical areas, pictures, video, etc. Say what you will about the validity of Compete stats, but evidently digg is struggling to grow beyond its core 20something-geek demographic.

The continued bleeding of Netscape/Propeller in fact suggests that concept of socially moderated news may not resonate with demographic segments other than digg’s core audience:

So - here’s the question: do Jane and Joe Sixpack want to participate in their news and content? Or just consume?

bleeding, digg, netscape, propeller traffic

Akamai Real-time Web Traffic Monitor

This is pretty cool - check out Akamai’s realtime web monitor. It surfaces traffic, speed, and “attack” volume - showing you the pulse of the Internet, if you will. The FASTForward Blog covers this in more detail.

The CBC covers some interesting findings (found via Flying Hamster) that have popped out of the tool already. StreamingMedia.com covers more tools to be released by Akamai.