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Digg 365 surfaces the top ten stories on any given day, month and year. You can also see the top ten stories by category per year. Roll over the colored arcs to show display the months; clicking on it brings an outside arc to choose a specific day.

"what's this?
Labs provide a broader and deeper view of Digg. Tens of thousands of URLs get submitted to Digg every day, so sometimes good things can fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities to expose content you may have otherwise missed.
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Labs projects are the results of collaboration. Pics, Big Spy, Arc, Stack and Swarm are a collaboration with stamen design and digg365 is a collaboration with the barbarian group. We've also released a public API for Digg so that anyone can turn Digg data into their own visualizations." source:  labs.digg.com

Crowdrise: Edward Norton Presents DIY Fundraising Site at Mashable Media Summit

Actor Edward Norton (Fight Club and American History X) spoke today at the Mashable Media Summit to present Crowdrise, a social good website that gives individuals and organizations the tools to organize grassroots activism campaigns and raise funds for their causes.

Visit the site and you’ll be greeted with an invitation to “start your own fundraiser.” You can also contribute to existing campaigns or visit user profiles (including those of celebrities like Norton, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Paul Rudd, Kristen Bell and Will Ferrell) to see which causes they’re supporting or running.

Norton worked with the team behind the website for his Maasai Marathon fundraising run (which raised $1.2 million in two weeks) to create a broader initiative that doesn’t focus on one cause, but instead gives people the tools to work together on any social good campaign.

Crowdrise distinguishes itself from other social good websites like Change.org by employing irony and irreverent humor (not a surprise, given some of the celebs involved) but it also has points and prizes to give people an incentive to participate and give.

Nonprofits that have already signed up on the site include Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, The Art of Elysium, Oceana, City Year, the Conservation Lands Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association, Partners in Health and Malaria No More.

At the Mashable Media Summit, Norton said that social networking sites are about “personal narrative” in the sense that individuals want to create a narrative that represents their lives and values on the web. Crowdrise helps them do that with their passions for specific causes, then share the results.

Norton says that an average intern should be able to set up a fundraising campaign in just 15 minutes.

Edward Norton (yes Edward Norton) launches social fundraising site: Crowdrise

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CROWDRISE

It's revolutionary. Really. Crowdrise is an innovative, crowd-sourcing community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service, raising money for charity, and having the most fun in the world while doing it. Charities can use Crowdrise to raise money in new ways by turning their grassroots supporters into grassroots fundraisers.

Google Merges Street View with User Photos

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Google is now allowing you to overlay photos from other users into Street View, giving you a new way to experience places near and far.

With this new feature, you can view any available user-contributed photographs within the panorama of a Street View location. User photos first came to Street View more than a year ago, but this is the first time we’re seeing image and object recognition used to place this trove of content placed in a real-world context.

To try out the overlay, click “Photos” in the top right corner of a Street View screen. Street View will then show thumbnails of related photos placed over Google’s own Street View imagery. When you mouse over the thumbnail, you’ll see a preview of the corresponding photograph without navigating away from Street View. When you click on the photo, you’ll be directed to Google’s photo browser, where you can explore other user-generated images from that location.

This is a stunning, inspiring way to see different people, perspectives, seasons, events and even times of day at a given spot.

Check out this feature when used to view the Eiffel Tower (below), and then try it at a popular tourist attraction or someplace you’ve always wanted to visit. Let us know what you think in the comments.