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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Posted By: Silver 457 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.willitblend.com)
Category: Social Media
It seems like just a few weeks ago when Stephan and I chatted with Neil Patel about what the next quick hit for Diggers would be, and I think he sugg read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2007 - 11:53 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 457 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: News Sites
Diggwatcher monitors a story with audio updates; Entourage shows your friends by icon; a tool to view your digg comments and jump to friends and oh! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Using social media for evil purposes...inevitable, I suppose. Rand is (I think) the first to bring up a topic that I'm sure we'll be hearing about again and again. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SimonHeseltine 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://rbdrodeo.com)
Category: Networking
Candidates are increasingly using social media and many have a significant presence on several different social networks. Fred Stutzman of TechPresident has a great post on Senator Dodd’s use of the new social network aggregator tool, MyLifeBrand, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Emalker 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.trustedblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
TrustedBlogging is a certificate that bloggers can use to show their readers that they comply to the TrustedBlogging ethic guidelines. Which gives the blog more credibility. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OptimusRhyme 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Blogging
Good guide on how to create good content that is not negative in tone. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OptimusRhyme 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Blogging
For some reason, bloggers and many site owners seem to completely ignore public relations. While a simple free press release won’t get you in the New York Times, it can get you in a number of smaller papers and many online news sites, so it can be a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Networking
A brief article about how niche social networking sites are the best way to compete in today's social networking vertical. Hence Sphinn! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ogletree 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jasonberlinsky.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A list of things you can do to a phpbb forum to fight spam. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mybloglogb.typepad.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Ian writes, "MyBlogLog to date has been about providing pointers to different places where you publish, we want to fill that out a bit and bring together those bits and pieces of your virtual self under one roof and bring it to life." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: runninthingz 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://marko.gnosticdesigns.com)
Category: Blogging
Casey Serin “The World Most Hated Blogger” is closing Down IAmFacingForeclosure.com read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2007 - 3:35 pm
Posted By: BrendanPicha 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Add a bit of code and a Sphinn icon and we now have bookmarking capabilities within our Share This Wordpress bookmarking Plugin! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://h20325.www2.hp.com)
Category: News Sites
Eric Kintz from HP posts a link to a recent study by the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs that analyzed the behavioral patterns of one million Digg users. The study details how the interplay between novelty and popularity determine the rat read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggerdesign.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Thomas McMahon has made a cool chicklet for Sphinn making it easy for blog readers to submit stories. He'll be adding the Sphinn chicklet to the social bookmark tool as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: 0thelisa 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A new days gives us another chance to talk about Facebook. Huzzah!

The article discusses how marketers are approaching advertising opportunities on Facebook the wrong way and what they need to be doing in order to convert users and create brand read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ANOnym 456 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Blogging
When creating content for your website, is it better to invest in long, expert articles or also write smaller blog posts? Though Jacob Nielsen speaks in favor of expert articles (and rightly so), you shouldn't forget communucating within the indust read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOish 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: Social Media
A sock puppet gives his perspective of the newest social media web site, Sphinn, which was recently launched by Danny Sullivan. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Lyndon 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
"...it’s one of the quickest and easiest ways to make money on the net at the moment" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mattstoddart 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mattstoddart.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
It's a tidal wave of social media sites! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
Digg break-up post..."Ah Digg you’ve been great…I mean, we still love you, no hard feelings or anything" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gabs 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seohome.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
Cool little thing taking over loads of blogs...

Its allow your users to vote on what type of post it was.. See for yourself ;) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thestreet.com)
Category: Social Media
Thestreet.com talks about how there are a lot of web 2.0 tools out there for cheap prices. "Whether you're an Internet start-up or a brick-and-mortar business, there are new techniques and tools you can use to separate your business from the rest read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Social Media
A new SEM tv commercial started showing up this week on major tv networks. Grant Cowell is calling for production value standards on all search marketing videos and takes a look at the search marketing videos on the social networks. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 455 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Social Media
We all know that the fabulous people using Sphinn are marketers. We also know that we, as marketers, are blood-sucking desperate link mongers who will do anything for a good link right? (okay, so i may have gone a little too far with that descriptio read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AmyGreer 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://closed-loop-marketing.com)
Category: Blogging
Want to increase traffic to an existing blog? Starting a new blog? With more than 120,000 blogs being created every day, you’ve got some heavy competition. Here are 8 important steps for increasing your blog traffic you don’t want to miss. read more »
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