Digg is seen as the "Grand Daddy" or the "Big Kahuna" of Social Media Networks. It has the ability to send an enormous amount of traffic in a given direction.
In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently). However it seems like Reddit is not getting the attention it deserves.
Everyone's got a Top Ten list, an 8 step guide, or some other how-to post to succeeding in social media. This isn't one of those posts. Not exactly. Not really. OK, maybe a little bit.
Last night I wrote an article about Reddit's big announcement party and the Tagging feature I discovered a little early. It turns out the feature "was the result of a prank, but we suspect tags will be one of the first features developed…"
Mixx.com is a social news site that seems to have everything going for it.
The way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. The end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process.
Here's a collection of 115 social bookmark and news sites ranked by PageRank, number of links and value of each site. We used dnScoop to gather the data for all these sites. This is what the dnScoop data is based on: I didn't realise there was so many
When the year got rolling, it was just Pete slogging away through all the news and press releases, but now there's a whole team of us attempting to bring you the information you crave.
Pligg, which makes software that allows anyone to setup their own Digg-like site, will soon be launching a new service that will let users without any development skills setup their own social news community. I have a Pligg powered site, so looking forward to there new service.
I don't typically pick out editorials from minor market newspapers and take them apart, but the sentiment expressed by David Hazinski this morning in the Atlanta Journal Constitution represent hazinski.PNGa growing and prevalent arrogance in the mainstream media I haven't not …
In the Internet- medium appeared the rumors that that the site of the social news Digg in the near future will be sold to important mediynomu player. Is called even sum of transaction - from 300 to 400 million dollars.
Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API's and create a developer platform.
Listen. Can you hear it? All the buzz about social media marketing? What you might not know is that with all that sound there's an awful lot of noise.
There is a new Social Bookmark/News site that has been launched lately, and after using it first for a while, before writing about it, we can say that it surprised us, and sometimes we even got more visitors from there, then any other familiar sites, such as Digg for example.
Digg revolutionized social bookmarking when it launched in 2004. Since then, it has become the undisputed champ of link ranking sites. They just recently crossed the million mark. And their influence goes far beyond those user registration numbers.
We're still waiting for confirmation from founder Ted Shelton on this one, but I give a fairly good probability to the news today that blog search engine Technorati has acquired PersonalBee, the "news discovery engine" that uses human editors and algorithms to sort through …
Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the internet and now a senior executive with Google, has cast doubt on the efficacy of recent attempts to curb cyber bullying by blocking student access to video-sharing sites such as YouTube.
Now that AOL has entered the social news arena with Netscape and Yahoo has incorporated various del.icio.us and Digg influenced services into its social media and search platform, it's time for Microsoft to also enter the picture.