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Feb. 19, 2008 at 1:07pm by Cameron Olthuis
Why Commercial Domains Don't Get On Digg Any More
Last year I wrote a post called 5 Reasons To Put Viral Content On Mini-Sites, providing reasons why you might opt to use a mini-site rather than keeping all the content on your main domain. One of the reasons was because content might not spread due to your domain....
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Feb. 18, 2008 at 9:33am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Buzz: Next Digg Competitor
Valleywag has screen captures of a new Yahoo web site, reportedly launching February 26th, named Yahoo Buzz Beta. Yahoo Buzz will be similar to Digg, but will start only with 100 sites allowed into the system. After the initial beta period, all sites that are accepted into the Yahoo Publisher...
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 9:44am by Tamar Weinberg
Digg Updates Algorithm - Digg Community Revolts
Two days ago, Digg went down for a short while while changes were being implemented in the system. While nothing was immediately apparent, Brent Csutoras noticed some slight changes, and after several hours, a bigger trend emerged: the algorithm had changed and you needed a lot more votes to hit...
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Jan. 15, 2008 at 3:55pm by Muhammad Saleem
7 Tips To Win The Social News Beauty Pageant
How can you increase your chances of appealing to an average Digger, Stumbler, or other social media user, and actually get them to vote for your content? Consider this quote from John Maynard Keynes, British born economist responsible for Keynesian economics, who explains how markets work by making an...
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Dec. 24, 2007 at 8:03am by Greg Sterling
From Browser To Digg Clone: The Short, Unhappy Life Of Netscape
Netscape has been reinvented several times since its acquisition by AOL in November 1998 -- and all of these efforts have essentially failed. In addition to a browser, the Netscape brand had been associated with a portal and discount dial-up ISP (and still is) before Jason Calacanis turned the site...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 8:40am by Greg Sterling
Report: Digg Wants To Sell For $300 Million (Or More)
It's now basically public information that social news site Digg is shopping itself. VentureBeat cites a "reliable source" in saying the company has hired private investment firm Allen & Company to sell Digg. However, the site has apparently been on the block for many months (or longer). TechCrunch has a...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Digg Adds Images Tab, New Taxonomy, & More
The Digg Blog announced several additions and changes that went live on Digg last night. The first is the addition of an image tab to the top of Digg's main categories....
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 12:24pm by Muhammad Saleem
It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank
Have you ever wondered what it really takes for a story submitted to Digg to get to the home page? Or why a certain story—even a really good, social media friendly story—never got to the home page? I'm frequently asked the question, "Hey, my story has [number] of Diggs but...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 12:18pm by Chris Winfield
You've Made Digg - Now What?
When you work with Digg, reddit, and the like, you want to get the POP: getting your content to a coveted spot on the homepage. Getting the pop can be difficult— social news users are wary of ulterior motives and will sometimes bury your wonderful content before it can...
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Nov. 21, 2007 at 10:14am by Danny Sullivan
US Candidates Hit Digg, Fail To "Get" The Social News Site
Digg The Candidates is a new area on Digg that allows you to see what US presidential candidates are digging and doing on Digg. That's right, you can check out what Barack Obama (with about 3,200 Digg friends) and Ron Paul (with about 6,000 friends) are up to. But...
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Nov. 14, 2007 at 9:13pm by Chris Winfield
Wall Street Journal Hearts Digg
Yesterday, Digg founder Kevin Rose made one of the shortest blog posts in Digg's history, announcing that the Wall Street Journal has added Digg buttons to its site which in turn give Diggers free access to paid content there. What's this new deal mean? Let's take a look....
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Oct. 23, 2007 at 8:58am by Neil Patel
How To Shout On Digg Without Getting Shot Down
Tons of people have been using the Digg shout it feature lately. A shout is a message that can be sent between two or more users on Digg, making it a very powerful tool for getting many people to take notice of content, and potentially garnering lots of Diggs....
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Oct. 16, 2007 at 1:59pm by Barry Schwartz
Live Blogging: SMX Social Media - Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites
The third session at SMX Social Media is covering topics such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, and social news sites. Neil Patel from ACS, Chris Winfield from 10e20 and Tamar Weinberg from RustyBrick are the speakers for this panel. There is also coverage at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine...
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Oct. 12, 2007 at 12:30pm by Danny Sullivan
Pics From Inside Digg Labs
Digg Labs is a wonderful place where the folks at Digg create new and interesting tools for using the popular social news site. I was lucky enough to score some exclusive inside photos of the construction that goes on there. Heh. OK, it's a slow Friday, and I'd been meaning...
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Oct. 4, 2007 at 8:17pm by Danny Sullivan
New List: Sites With Most Cumulative Diggs
This is the week for top lists, it seems. First, we had the Techmeme Leaderboard get launched (and now being debated again), then we got a list of the most mentioned sites on Digg. Now there's a third one -- sites with the most cumulative Diggs. More on both Digg...
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Sep. 25, 2007 at 8:37am by Neil Patel
The New Digg & What It Means For SEO
Last week Chris Winfield did a great job reviewing the new Digg. Today, I want to discuss how the changes affect SEOs. We all want to get on the homepage of Digg because it can bring in thousands of links, but the recent changes made it both easier and...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 2:52pm by Chris Winfield
Digg To Get Truly Social With Major Update Today
At some point today, Digg will be rolling out a massive update to help users of its service connect more and to become more social. As BusinessWeek reports, these changes “might seem more at home on Facebook or MySpace than on a web site where users post links to online...
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Sep. 4, 2007 at 9:09am by Barry Schwartz
Digg Those Pics & Only Those Pics At Digpicz.com
Every wanted to see the highest rated images over at Digg? Digpicz.com has launched to serve that purpose as the "unofficial Digg Picture Browser," commentsStan Schroeder. Digpicz uses the Digg API to aggregate images from Digg and place them in one location. Digg has sections for news, video, and podcasts,...
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 3:00pm by Barry Schwartz
Digg Buries Google AdSense For Microsoft Ads
Digg has dropped Google as its ad provider in exchange for for a three-year exclusive ad deal with Microsoft. Microsoft will be providing the display and contextual advertising on Digg's popular social news site, with traffic estimated at over 17 million unique monthly visitors. The switch over will take place...
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May. 2, 2007 at 7:11am by Danny Sullivan
Digg Gives In To User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?
After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs. The AACS claims that anyone publishing the number may be violating US laws against circumvention of copy protection. How the...
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Apr. 10, 2007 at 5:53pm by Danny Sullivan
Digg-A-Meter Applet: Will That Story Be Popular On Digg?
Our recent Top 12 Ways To Win Friends & Write Magnetic Headlines article not enough to help you write the perfect headline to go popular on Digg? Via Pronet Advertising, I thought this was fun -- the Digg-A-Meter applet tries to tell you the potential success of your story...
