Digg – founder Kevin Rose talks about digg’s recommendation engine and how to improve the user’s engagement in digg and other social media sites like reddit. Some interesting insights. The recommendation engine is written in Python and not PHP. Maybe they were inspired by this book: Programming Collective Intelligence? 
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After the excellent YSlow! Firebug plugin and the High Performance Web Sites presentation by Steve Souders, Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance Team added 20 new recommendations to their list of Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site. They also posted a video of their presentation.
