Digg the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hey everyone- Wanted to let you know we hear your feedback on our implementation of the wallpaper-style, aka “skin”, advertising in our PC Games topic. This was our first implementation of this kind of ad, and based on your feedback we’ve made a couple of fixes to address some of your concerns: Fixed the readability [...]
Social Media Optimization (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I came across a post last month by Rebecca at 10e0 called Is Digg the Google of Social News Sites'. In the post Rebecca points out some interesting traffic data. Top Social News Sites Based on Unique Visitors in August 2009: Digg (17.4 million) Yahoo! Buzz (7 million) Propeller (800,000) Reddit (670,000) Mixx (660,000) Digg was a hot topic in the social marketing field [...]
Down the avenue (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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Download Squad (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: Social Software , web 2.0 How can a Digg story make the front page without making the front page? Digg is about to show you, by placing some highly-active stories on the homepage for 10 minutes at a time before they have enough diggs to be there. By putting these trending stories up front, Digg intends to have a higher volume of users digg or bury them, as a sort of filter to decide what...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Digg has launched a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends. The feature will promote "certain highly active stories" as they are trending, not unlike Twitter's trending topics. The feature could give stories a better chance of getting more exposure when they otherwise wouldn't necessarily made it to the front page. Digg's Kurt Wilms explains : Digg Trends identifies and highlights...
CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
We've checked its pulse, and the link-sharing site is dead. Here's how the rise of social networking -- and Google's ceaseless evolution -- stuck the knife in and twisted
UK Search Engine Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Facebook, Twitter and Digg are regarded by many as the three most important Social Media sites out there, but how do they compare… Recent reports from ComScore revealed that almost a third of all internet users across the globe visited Facebook in September, a truly astonishing fact. This is almost a 100% increase from the same [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It wasn't all that long ago that Digg captured our collective imagination. In fact, even last year Google thought it was important enough to seriously consider buying Digg, only to back out at the last minute. Digg was the future of news. It was crowdsourced, democratic editorial. The masses decided what was news, not some 50 year old guy in a skyscraper in New York, who secretly hated the Internet....
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Brad Garlinghouse , a former SVP at Yahoo, joined AOL as President of Internet and Mobile Communications two months ago. And he's clearly doing a little housekeeping, and forming his own exec team. His first major hire? Kiersten Hollars , a Digg PR exec. Hollars is part of Garlinghouse's old team at Yahoo, and left the company shortly after Garlinghouse did to take over PR and communications at Digg...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A great community for crowd sourced news and content, Digg is taking a page from the Twitter playbook and testing its mettle in the real-time stream. Similar to Twitter's Trending Topics, Digg is set to launch Digg Trends. According to a company blog post , the bookmarking community is offering users a chance to view trending stories before they make it to the home page. True to Digg fashion, this...
TutorialFeed (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Now a days content sharing become a best platform to get a more traffic/publicity for your website or blog. Popular content sharing sites like digg , mixx , twitter , facebook , reddit , dzone etc. are front runners in the race. There are also some very popular ready to use social bookmarking widgets available like share/save , sharethis , addthis etc. I earn big amount of traffic on my blog from twitter...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If you’re on the hunt for a new job, check out our CrunchBoard . We’ve added nearly 50 new jobs from leading internet businesses in the last two weeks, including two jobs here at TechCrunch. Here’s a quick sample: Sr. Front End Developer / JavaScript Guru Digg - San Francisco, CA Health News Editor AOL - New York, NY Director, Audience Development TheStreet.com - New York, NY Senior...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Twitter is officially launching Lists, its new feature to organize the massive group of users obsessively sending out 140 character messages. An independent web development company wasted no time setting up Listorious , a directory much like Kevin Rose's WeFollow , tracking all the most popular and influential Twitter Lists. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Twitter CEO: 'Desperately Want...
Digg the Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Hey everyone - Today we’re excited to launch a brand new Digg store. Over the past year, we’ve gotten a ton of requests for specialty products, including items for kids and pets, not to mention additional styles of Digg-branded apparel. We’ve heard you loud and clear, so we designed the store around your ideas. In [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Ryan Deal is a social media and creative advertising lover who’s got an eye for good design and a passion that won’t quit. He runs the website TopCultured.com , which can also be found on Twitter . It’s nearly Halloween again and you know what that means: candy, costumes, and carving pumpkins. This year, social media has taken the world by storm with huge acquisitions, traditional...
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