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"Our readers show us a lot of love on Digg, so we thought it might be fun to take a look back through the 50 Mashable stories that received the most votes in our history. Here you'll find everything from enormous toolbox resources to bizarre Google Street View sightings, YouTube news, and more.\n5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online - A collection of our toolbox lists up through early September 2007, covering tools from job hunting to social bookmarking and photography.\nOPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications - Who doesn't love open source and what it does for the software community? Did you have any idea there were hundreds of projects? With a list of this size, there is sure to be something for everyone.\n\nTop 15 Google Street View Sightings - Apparently people really enjoy looking at wacky stuff captured by the Google Street View cars. Most of them are just amusing, but this guy apparently breaking into an apartment probably didn't laugh much.\n\nBreaking: UTube Sues YouTube - I know I always get confused when I want some industrial tubing, and I always end up accidentally going to a site filled with millions of video clips.  So was the claim by Universal Tubing versus YouTube.\nTed Stevens Returns, Wants to Ban Kids from MySpace - Senator Ted Stevens Part II: The Revenge would have also been an apt title as the United States Senator once again attempted to go after social networks and keep them away from the kids.  It's always about protecting \"the children.\"\nNegligent Parents Blamed for MySpace Assault, Tom is a Free Man - After a 12-year-old girl lied about her age on MySpace, leading to her having sex with a 19-year-old in a parking lot, her parents attempted to sue MySpace for $30 million dollars for negligence.  The judge in the case told them that MySpace could not be responsible for their users actions and called her parents the negligent ones.\nYouTubers Sue Viacom Over Stephen Colbert Clip - While parody is protected under fair use, it seems Viacom didn't get the memo.  They used a DMCA notice to remove a parody of The Colbert Report from YouTube, and in turn, the creators went after Viacom for DMCA abuse.\nTom\u2019s Hardware Sold for $15-$20 Million - News that Tom's Hardware got purchased by BestofMedia.\nYouTube Obeys Fake Takedown Request From 15 Year Old - Oh those wacky teenagers in Australia what with their fake letter of copyright violations.  Course, you have to wonder about YouTube's vetting of the sources of letters.\n7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API - Seven very cool cools built on the Digg API that makes the service even more useful.\nMySpace: No Gays for a Day - What appears to have just been a technical glitch back in May 2007 set off a firestorm of conspiracies that MySpace was getting rid of the choice to set your orientation to \"Gay\".  It was later fixed and is still there.\nDownload YouTube Videos - The speed at which YouTube videos can be taken down is head spinning at times.  If you see something you really enjoy, and fear the loss of it, this list of tools will help you save the video to your hard drive.\nBreaking: Photobucket Acquired By MySpace - The long rumored purchase of Photobucket by MySpace finally happens.\nFace Off: Windows Live Hotmail vs. Gmail - Windows Live Hotmal vs. Gmail, which is the superior service?  Take a look to find out.\nGmail Users are Younger, Richer, Good in Bed - A study was released in May 2007 of the average demographics of Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail users, and the big G users tended to be younger, wealthier and... well, Pete added the comment about better in bed.\nSuperMoviesDownload: The YouTube Virus - Bossman Pete Cashmore explains how SuperMovieDownload.com gamed the YouTube system to get their videos consistently in the Most Views chart on YouTube.\nThe 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos - You can find just about anything on the Internet now, and instructional videos are no different.  From videos for teachers to different exercises routines, there is something all of us could learn.\nLOOK OUT Kevin Rose! 19 IM Startups You Need to Beat - Back when no one knew what Kevin Rose was working on (it turned out to be Pownce), it was believed it was some sort of IMing service.  Stan put together a list of his would be competition if the rumors proved to be true.\nDeath By Lawyer: 10 Cool Sites We Miss - So many great ideas for websites never take into consideration what the legal ramifications are before they launch, and then the lawyers inform them of those problems.\nFlickr Has an \u201Ce\u201D in it\u2026Web 2.0 Spelling CORRECTED - A fun list by Stan Schroeder that shows what happened when you go to Flicker.com as opposed to Flickr.com and so on.\nKevin Rose: Digg Expanding to Images, Restaurant and Product Reviews - Seeing as it has been over a year since Kevin Rose mentioned this, it probably isn't happening, or just been put on a back burner for the time being, but it sure caught the attention of Digg users.\nBest MySpace Layouts That Don\u2019t Look Like MySpace At All -  This collection of MySpace layouts shows off some of the unique things you can do with MySpace that makes them look completely unlike any of the normal MySpace layouts.  As Stan pointed out, some of them may violate the MySpace Terms of Service, but they are still fun to look at, and may inspire you to do something different with your own page.\nFacebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features - Not long after the launch of Facebook apps, we put them head-to-head to see which was the stronger network.  From the title of the article it should be easy to see which one we chose as the winner.\n33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online - Everyone loves free, and what could be better than free television for all?  Check out these free sources for TV shows on your computer.\nFacebook in 40 Years - A highly amusing look at what Facebook may look like in the future as the users age.\nPownce Invites - Back when everyone was looking for Pownce invites, this was a system of inviting an endless stream of people.\n10 Richest People in Tech - Bill Gates finally falls from the #1 slot of the richest people, but only because he started donating so much to charities around the world.\n10 Most Beautiful Social Networks - Stan Schroeder takes a look at the 10 most visually appealing social networks.\nMySpace Blocks the Letter \u201Ci\u201D - It has since been fixed, but for some odd reason the letter \"i\" started showing up as \"..\" all over the popular social network.  Pete Cashmore's conclusion was that it was some form of iPhone bias.\nONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites - Over 80 services to backup your computer, send files and store online.\nWeb Development Toolbox: 120+ Web Development Resources - A lengthy list of useful applications for the web developers amongst us, covering everything from code snippets to mashup builders.\nDOWNLOAD EVERYTHING: 30+ Firefox Add-ons For Downloading Images, Videos &amp; Files - Firefox has extensions for just about every use conceivable, and this list collected together an assortment of tools that allow you to download just about anything you come across during your Web browsing.\nGmail Going Huge: 9000MB+ - This story from August 9, 2007 turned out to be inaccurate, but it didn't stop it from taking off on Digg.\nSTUNNING: Facebook on the iPhone - Facebook comes to the iPhone and shows off just how well a site can be optimized for the gadget.\n30+ Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers &amp; Designers - Once again showing that Firefox is capable of so much more than just Web browsing, this collection of tools helps developers &amp; designers do their work without even having to change windows.\nViacom: It\u2019s Not Copyright Infringement When We Do it to You - An interesting tale of how VH1 used a man's YouTube video during a segment on Best.Week.Ever., but when he put up a clip of VH1 using his video to show friends, he got told to take it down for copyright infringement.\nGmail Wish List: 10 Things I\u2019d Like to See in the New Gmail - Adam Ostrow has a wishlist of 10 things he wish Gmail would change, and the list is still relevant today.\nHowStuffWorks Acquired by Discovery for $250M - News that the popular HowStuffWorks site was purchased by Discovery Communications for $250 million.\nNew Law Spells Death For Social Porn? - Stan speculated that the changes to US law 18 U.S.C. 2257 would mean the end to social porn, but seeing as how XTube is still running, it would seem that some way to skirt the issue was found.\nComcast Isn\u2019t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too? - The unfolding Comcast Net Neutrality case takes a hit as more evidence mounts to their shaping of packets to throttle BitTorrent traffic.\nMicrosoft Sued; Christmas Comes Early for Z4 Technologies - Patent trolls can be amusing in the things they go after, and in this case Z4 went after Microsoft for asking users to input two passwords to activate their software.  While Z4 does hold this patent, they've never used it.\n\nThe Pirate Bay Goes Web 2.0 - News that the Pirate Bay, infamous torrent tracker site, had added Last.fm integration so you could hear musical tracks, see info on the artist as well as suggestions of similar artists.\nOpen Web Awards - Vote for Your Favorite Social News Site - An early round in the voting for the Open Web Awards inspired Digg fans to vote this one up so every one could come over and vote for Digg as the best social news site.\nFacebook Controversy: Virginia Tech Halloween Costumes [Video] - Some students at Penn State thought it would be amusing to dress up as Virginia Tech shooting victims and post videos of themselves.  The backlash was not surprising.\nApple Tops $200 Per Share - A small Christmas present for Apple came on December 26th, 2007 as the company experienced hitting $200 a share for the first time ever.\nAT&amp;T: We May Not Stay Net Neutral - Net Neutrality is always a hot button issue, and when a major ISP says they may just start ignoring it, it is always sure to raise the ire of Internet readers.\nJanuary 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day - On January 21st, 2008, Mark Hopkins brought to our attention that one guy was turning his personal disgust with MySpace into a \"movement\" to have every one delete their MySpace accounts.  Since MySpace is still with us, I'm going to guess the idea wasn't overly successful.\nAnalysis: Number of Tech Stories on Digg Is Dropping Rapidly - It seems that users of Digg love stories about the site itself.  On February 5th, 2008, Stan Schroeder wrote up a piece about how the number of technology stories on Digg seemed to be dropping, it was \"Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate\".\nWhen an Interview with Zuckerberg turns into a Revolt - Kristen Nicole recounts her experiences at the infamous Sarah Lacey interview of Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW that... well... didn't go so well.\nRevision3 CEO: No Suit Against MediaDefender In The Works - Despite the fact that MediaDefender used their servers, and later caused a DOS attack on them, Revision3 opted not to file a lawsuit against them for damages."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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