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Topics related to social news sites, such as Digg, Reddit & Netscape. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or news sites news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community?
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 9:13 am
Posted By: EricLander 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Investigating Sphinn proved to be a telling exercise for me. At least, I think so. This article shares some of the data I pulled and the concerns that emerged from having done that research. Hopefully worth a view for anyone caring about the long read more »
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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 5:04 am
Posted By: isaSuperstar 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com) my network
Category: News Sites
You are probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged, partly by the desire to encour read more »
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Are Your Digg Buddies Holding You Back?
Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com) my network
Category: News Sites
As social marketers we are communicators, digg is simply the path of least resistance to communicate our message. Yes, our message may be one of persuasion, but it all comes down to communication. We must speak to those who have influence, and I got read more »
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Sphinn & The Hidden Value of Social News Bookmarking Immersion
Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 11:47 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com) my network
Category: News Sites
In an environment where other users are literally competing to bookmark up-and-coming news, speed often matters or someone beats you to the punch. Composing compelling titles and descriptions takes a lot of concentration and skill. I’m sharing examp read more »
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Advanced Web Usability: 5 Important Lessons Learned From Digg
Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Having trouble making everything fit nicely on your page, while still maintaining usability? Here are 5 essential lessons garnered from observing industry giant Digg.com. read more »
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3 Milestones of a Front Page Digg
Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 2:51 am
Posted By: Wiep 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com) my network
Category: News Sites
This is not a how to spam article, this is an article that will hopefully help you better understand the life of your stories on Digg. If you better understand the stories and the process you can increase your chances for a front page Digg. read more »
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Digg Got it 166% Wrong
Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 12:03 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com) my network
Category: News Sites
As a follow-up post, eKstreme crunches more numbers to reveal that Digg's attempt to introduce diversity into the algo to reduce effects of power users backfired badly. Power users have more power than ever now. Don't believe me? Go look at the nu read more »
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Mixx Puts Breaking News In To Social Media
Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 4:56 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mixx.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Today, social news web site, Mixx, announced new features to their service that will help them break news faster by getting big news stories promoted to the home page in a timely fashion. On the Mixx blog post about the changes, they point out that read more »
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Secrets of Going Popular Twice on Digg
Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 4:25 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Once again, eKstreme comes through with hard data, as his Social Alerter tool analyzed those lucky stories that got submitted more than once and went popular more than once on Digg. Very interesting to see the numbers crunched like that. read more »
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Why You’ve Got to Dig Digg to Get Dugg
Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 9:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skelliewag.org) my network
Category: News Sites
In this post, I want to talk about the most often overlooked aspect of what is required to write content with strong potential on Digg (and the same principle applies to StumbleUpon, Reddit, or any other social media service you can imagine). read more »
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7 Reasons Why Mixx Is Better Than Digg
Avatar Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Posted By: annie7 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com) my network
Category: News Sites
While Mixx is currently only sending a small fraction of the traffic that a popular post on Digg can send, there is a good reason to join Mixx with a great potential. read more »
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Interview With a Top Mixx User
Avatar Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 7:35 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reemabeidoh.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Greg Davies aka cGt2099 is a social media addict, who first jumped into social news at Digg. In September 2007, he was permanently banned from Digg, and made the move over to Mixx. Greg Davies has graciously agreed to speak with me about best practi read more »
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Mixx Gets Credibility Boost From NYTimes
Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 2:02 am
Posted By: annie7 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com) my network
Category: News Sites
The New York Times tonight added Mixx bookmarking buttons on its site, which is an important milestone for the company. read more »
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7-Pack of SEO News Aggregators
Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 10:14 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Lee Odden puts together a list of sites that collect feeds/posts from some of the top SEO/marketing blogs on the web. I hadn't heard of several of these.... read more »
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Firefox Extension Adds Digg Count to SERPs
Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 4:03 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialphile.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Includes digg count to links in your search engine's results. Also allows you to submit news to your favourite social news website Digg.com from search engine results directly. read more »
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Digg's Algo Change Cut Promotions by 38%
Avatar Went Hot: March 9, 2008 - 9:22 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com) my network
Category: News Sites
OUCH! Hard data proves that the recent Digg algo change had a HUGE impact on the chances of getting a story to go hot, and that impact justifies the initial outrage that ensued. Totally great to see actual numbers for things like this. read more »
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Just a Whole Bunch of Digg Rumors & Speculation
Avatar Went Hot: March 9, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.digg.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Digg CEO Jay Adelson calls the rumors about a bidding war involving Google & Microsoft "completely inaccurate". Until next time.... read more »
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digg Almighty is NOT Social Media Marketing
Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 4:25 am
Posted By: aimClear 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Lyndon Master Linkbaiter has his SAY! "digg is NOT the goal. If you think it is then you are missing the point. Digg, is a step towards the goal." [marty note: It's SO rare to grab a Lyndon post, YAY!] read more »
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Digg Stalker - A Great Tool to Analyze Digg and Find Friends
Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 4:49 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://postworthy.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Landon has created a very interesting and functional tool to analyze Digg and to find new friends on Digg. He needs more input yet though. Check it out, and let him know what functionality you would like to see added. Do check out the tool ... ultra read more »
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How NOT To Manipulate Social News: A Sphinn Experience
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:33 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn't work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should be outt read more »
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Dear Digg - Please Ban My Site
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 9:35 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: News Sites
If you have decided my blog isn't suitable for whatever reason for a Digg audience, please just ban me totally - honestly it is misleading your users if they think they can vote for a story because they honestly think it is newsworthy, and for some read more »
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I Am Not Your Digg Whore!
Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 9:30 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reemabeidoh.com) my network
Category: News Sites
I apologize for the crass title, but it is exactly how I feel when I receive an IM with only a Digg or Reddit link in it. I am absolutely open to my friends alerting me to a new story they submitted. However, I am less likely to upmod a story if the read more »
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Link Attraction Factors: Report, Tools, API and Plugin
Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 8:44 pm
Posted By: danzarrella 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com) my network
Category: News Sites
A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. Never one to get complacent I’ve also developed an XML API version of my link attraction factors title checking tool and a Wordpress Pl read more »
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Will Digg still be a little boys' juvenile gang center in 5 years?
Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 12:16 pm
Posted By: aimClear 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://performancing.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Take the Poll: 1) Yes, Digg built success around the discernment of young, horny 20 somethings, and won't neglect it's foundation. 2)No, Digg will mature to the point where good content almost always gets rewarded 3) WTF? Digg is cool the way it is, read more »
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Why Yahoo! Buzz is a Brilliant Idea
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 11:19 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com) my network
Category: News Sites
While many people think that the flurry of recent launches from Yahoo! represent nothing more than a cry of desperation, I think Yahoo! Buzz, at least, sets itself apart from the rest. Ultimately, Buzz is very much a beta product - but it has massiv read more »
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