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@jeffquipp - Ha, want to see the overseas digg admin that bans Mr. Kevin!
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Story: Zaibatsu Banned From Digg
Look, it's important to remember that this is critical of the business model and possible "stand alone" future of twitter, not critical of the features/use of twitter.
Was that more than 143 characters?
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I now can follow 1212 people - guess I'm almost twice as, what, friendly as Don?
As the modest narrator of this very modest video, I implore you - be kind.
And, yes, I was in the A/V club, why do you ask?
I didn't have a good time, except when I accidently hung with the right crowd!
I'd agree 100% with the don't put all your eggs in one basket advice! Be it a domain or a social network, that could not be more true.
I would also add that using tools (disclaimer: we have digg analytics tools in beta test) to increase your friend quality and reduce the amount of time you spend doing "maintenance" activities is key because your user and/or your domain can get the kiss of death without warning. So building a good user can't be a 2 hour/day and 8 week trial.
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Ok, we got a buncha emails from people looking for our Digg Analytics Tool with Automation. People it's in beta. Drop me an email if you'd like to try it out.
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Story: Humans Versus Robots On Digg
Story: Humans Versus Robots On Digg
Ok, I believe you and will amend that, but 400 diggs/day? Seven days a week, no time off.
Ten seconds to navigate/look/digg/comment is over an hour.
And that is never clicking through, never pondering your reply, etc.
Frankly, I can't understand that as human behavior at all.
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update: post modified
We are not original on Freemium. Sigh.
We've talked about adding to the list (I've gotten some hot emails!) and making it a constantly downloadable resource....
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Amen. Some people fear the assembly line making cars at speed but others see it as a way to increase demand by lower the price. I'm pretty firmly in that second camp, but I would be since that is our business model. :-)
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You also need to ping the blogs or other websites that have linked to you. We also reccy telling pingomatic (or whomever) about the domains that are linking to you so that they're tracked for future linky goodness to your site.
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Dosh -
Hey, I left the "dead" ones in there because I keep seeing them in lists of "28 social sites you should know!" Foooey, people just republish stuff without checking.
I am also hoping to get people who make lists to start shoving them up on google docs so that they're more useful. Sure, we all know how to pull things off web pages, but why should we have to go to the trouble?
As for the junky ones, well, see, this is they the list is downloadable with some commentary. If you have a hugely successful blog then a pligg site that can send you three visitors a day is not so keen. If you have a blog that gets 20 people/day then it's a godsend. If you're a big name, then digg is your friend, if you're small fry, well, then maybe you should spend some effort elsewhere.
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Dosh - Agree with all your points, but I also don't see it as an either/or thing.
As a small example, my father has a political blog that he writes, gets around 1K visitors a day, but either can't/won't write something digg friendly, so even though we've posted a fair number of things there he never gets more than a few people and then only for a few days.
However, last year, when he did a piece on Jindal and how he's gonna win we posted that to eight or ten Indian focused pligg sites (jigg.in, etc) which resulted in hundreds of people/day coming for a few weeks. Plus around a thousand inbound links from blogs. Heck, some of the links were even "Jindal in American Politics" and not "read this!" :-) He's gets a fair amount of google search traffic for Jindal terms even today.
Final bit - That is the 'mega list' and it is not super-clean. We're continually checking 'formerly live' sites and finding them dead/changed and we're also finding new sites (latest: idrive.in, a PR4 auto review site with dofollow links) so we're having a bit of a ponder on the best way to make that list available and useful to the public.
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Hey, if you were running a travel company (http://www.affiliateconfession.com/ anyone?) you OUGHT to write a story about Victoria falls so you could get juicy link goodness from them. Totally appropriate, and they'd probably be jazzed at the 'furriners' showing up.
I looked at ever single one of these and signed up for all the "live" ones and found an approprite article to test them. I still get nighmares.
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Story: Free Digg Friend Finder Tool
FYI, we are replacing this with a turbocharged version with tons of features. Stay tuned and drop us an email if you want to beta test it.
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Well, don't forget that a fair bit of that power was for YouTube, so it's still TV-lite.
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Is it evil to use instant rice? Is it evil to use your LG/Tromm instead of beating your clothes on rocks? Hey, I know, let's ditch excel and get some slide rules!
Who me? I don't blame the tool for the user's mis-deeds. We'd have to outlaw PHP and HTTP if we started doing that!
Gotta get back to the manual grist mill now to make flat bread for tomorrow.
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If someone in your office clicks on an attached jpeg that's not really and it installs rootkis, zombies, and porn-popups, do you say, "well, nothing you could have done."
If someone in your family responds to an email from paypal telling them to update their account information and the phisher empties their bank account, do you say "hey, it's ok, how were you to know?"
Uh, no, we don't. In fact, we're proactive as heck in warning people we might feel are at risk.
I'd say that if you are smart enough to install your own themes but not experienced enough to read the code, then you have to get them from a friend or another trusted source, not someone on the internet who could be a dog (pets.com reference brought to you by the US Bankruptcy Court!).
We bought our template from Joomla Shack (great guys) and we still read all of the code. And they're a real, company that we can hold accountable. If we didn't have staff to do that sort of thing, I'd probably have been comfy just buying it, but now I am very confident we're safe.
Side note: one thing we did do was to go through all their code and nofollow the links, so, Matt, if you're reading this.....
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Ok, such a deal. The Rocket guys spend $700 and get 14,732 people in a trusted authority RSS feed to read all about them. Plus the regular wander-by-the-site readers.
Plus 10K people will click on the Amazon link and have a new commish cookie.
All hail the Shoe!
Story: The Blind Diggers Wall of Shame