CategorySocial Media

Steve writes that Technorati has launched a new digg clone feature called Technorati WTF (where’s the fire). It allows users to submit posts that they think are hot – and then people vote for what they think is… hot. I’m getting an 404 error page when I go there at ...more

Digital Inspiration has a post on Getting Noticed by A-list bloggers vs Getting on Digg Front Page which makes a few worthwhile observations. It fits pretty closely to a comment I made last week in an interview with Jeremy when I was asked which social networking site I’d prefer to ...more

How do you build a ‘Digg Culture’ and get repeatedly on the front page of Digg over time? In this post I’ll share 10 ways that top bloggers do it. Last week on a post that Tony wrote about Digg Fraud one of those who left a comment wrote: “I ...more

37 Signals has a post on a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately also – those social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of blog posts that so many blogs have. They write: “Given the Ebola-like spread of these things they must be really effective, right? Not so much. Zero ...more

reddit have released reddit buttons for webmasters and bloggers to put on their sites to help spread the word about their posts. They come in three styles. Give them a go and let us know how you find them. Do you actively promote social bookmarking options to your readers? Do ...more

I’ve seen (and written) a lot of posts about how to get posts picked up by social bookmarking sites and what to do when it happens, but one of the things that has struck me recently is that another opportunity often presents itself when a site like Digg links links ...more

Richard MacManus has posted a response to the launch of Netscape from Digg’s CEO, Jay Adelson. In it Jay questions the scalability of Netscape and the level that users will actually be involved in it (both as a result of the editing processes that are built into Netscape). Read the ...more

Sometimes it’s the simplest posts that you do that seem to get the best reactions from readers. Yesterday on my Digital Photography School blog I posted a ‘beginner’ tip that I almost considered not publishing because it was pitched at such a basic level. The post was titled How to ...more

I’ve been meaning to check out Myspace for myself for the last few months and this weekend I actually took the 10 minutes necessary to set myself up an account at www.myspace.com/darrenrowse. I’m not sure what I was expecting from it but it all seems a little underwhelming so far. ...more