Digg the Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Hi everyone – Time again for another Digg Dialogg, and we’re really excited for this one. We’ll be sitting down with Oscar-winning director and producer Peter Jackson in anticipation of the upcoming release of his new movie, The Lovely Bones. Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to [...]
The Next Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
Digg is a giant, sending tens of thousands of visitors wherever it wishes. Competition to get on the front page is fierce, with strong power users dominating the website. People often ask, “how can I get my story onto the front page?”. We do now have data, as to what title words are the most popular, [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
There is a lot of buzz around SimpleGeo right now. The service, which participated in our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, also took home two prizes at the Under The Radar conference just prior to that . And that was a big deal for the company considering it won the audience award even though it's not exactly the most consumer-oriented project. But people seem to understand that the location...
WebProNews Video Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Although news outlets continually bring reports about new features on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, there is actually a lot happening with social aggregation sites as well. To catch us up to speed, Brent Csutoras gave WebProNews a rundown of the latest news from both Digg and StumbleUpon.
Ellen Forney (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Slog posted that “How to Smoke Pot and Stay Out of Jail” was the No. 1 hit on Digg yesterday afternoon. It has over 2000 diggs right now. Cool! The posts on Reddit and Digg only have the first of two pages, unfortunately, omitting the page on civil rights and how to deal with police. Here’s [...]
Techie Buzz (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BloggyBits is a social media widget for your Blogger or Wordpress blog. It lets you display updates from multiple social media sites including Twitter, Digg, Flickr and StumbleUpon. You might also like: Schedule Facebook Messages and Status Updates For Later With Sendible Display Twitter Updates In Orkut Timelimes: Aggregate Your News, Mail and Social Updates How to Create a Blog Widget For Twitter...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Woot , the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot . The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are special subsites for shirts , wine , and a handful of...
Rethink (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A few people are amazingly kind and Digg my posts, and I of course want to help them promote my work by sharing the Digg URL on Twitter. Trouble is, Digg URLs tend to be rather long for use on Twitter. For example, a recent post submitted: http://digg.com/arts_culture/Emily_Dickinson_Away_from_Home_are_some_and_I So I typically have wanted to find the Digg [...]
Programmable Web (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include GamePro , Goodreads , and Maponics . The most often used APIs this week are Google App Engine , Google Maps , and Twitter . Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 9 mashups), and Search (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows...
Tech Maish (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In my previous post i wrote about how to add retweet button in blog, now in this post we are going to add digg button in blogger. We all know about digg, Digg is the popular social bookmarking website and one of the most easiest way to get quick traffic and backlinks for your blog. Social [...] Related posts: How to Add Retweet Button in wordpress Twitter is growing day by day. Every one is now...
eWeek (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW YORK The Web 2.0 Expo was not quite the news-frenzy that its San Francisco-based brother Web 2.0 Summit was this year. But the show's creator and high-tech publishing guru Tim O'Reilly provided some zing Nov. 17 by arguing that arms races between Google and Apple as well as Facebook and Twitter threaten to stifle the Internet as we know it. O'Reilly also said Microsoft would emerge as a major player...
Digg the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hey everyone – I’m excited to announce that our next guest for Digg Dialogg is Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD, will be sitting down and asking him your top questions. From today through next Tuesday, November [...]
Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In a headline from yesterday, the Wall Street Journal tells us that Digg CEO Jay Adelson has one less thing to worry about: “Profitability Is Not A Problem Anymore.” In an interview with Fox Business Network, Adelson addressed the issue of monetizing social sites—but I’m not so sure I’d say profitability isn’t a problem anymore. Adelson [...]
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Peter Thiel is best known as the guy who cofounded and ran PayPal before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, he's founded a $2 billion hedge fund, Clarium Capital, and the Founders Fund, a venture fund with $275 under management. Peter is also one of Facebook's earliest investors and now sits on the company's board. Peter is also an investor in Decorati, a site that connects interior...
Telegraph Blogs - Technology (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Consumers won’t pay for news online, says Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg. As a man who runs a news aggregator, Adelson clearly has an interest in ensuring that news remains freely accessible. Instead, Adelson wants to interest newspapers in Digg’s advertising system and share revenue that way. Adelson told Fox News: “First off, don’t expect [...]
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