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"Some of you, who had joined the Beta group to experience the new version of StumbleUpon, might have noticed the old verison, or V2, when visiting the site today.

Around 8:00 pm last night, November 19, 2008, StumbleUpon made an announcement in t read more »
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Every time I talk to the guys at Reddit, they are mentioning yet another change, feature, or addition to their site. I really don’t know how they find the time to do it all, with having only 5 people (6 now actually since they hired Erik the “Manage read more »
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I really enjoyed researching the article and seeing how companies are starting to use social media communities as a way of filtering their content and coming up with the most popular and interesting material... read more »
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Ben and Karl from Conversion Rate Experts on free tools to help you learn why more of your users don't become customers. read more »
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Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently... read more »
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“One of the ones that filter to the top was “vote up if you don’t think self posts should get karma” and a useful discussion ensued. We decided to make the change after that. Reddit is a democracy after all.” read more »
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If you have been on Reddit much over the last few days, you might have noticed the share feature has returned. Click on the “share” button under any submission and fill in the blanks to send your favorite stories to anyone through email. read more »
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Social media marketing is one of the fastest changing forms of marketing online. Every time a new site, service, or community is launched, there comes both new opportunity for marketing and the possibility that the site you just spent months partici read more »
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Images are an important way to add that extra kick to your blog posts. They are often the first thing that attracts visitors to read further. But where do you find good image? read more »
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Digg has made some new changes today worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site. read more »
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Are impressions more important than relationships with social media users? Many of the branding and social media strategists raised their hands in agreement when asked if their motives were to build relationships. read more »
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Reddit's has announced that they will be going Open Source and allowing users to access their code at http://code.reddit.com. read more »
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Reddit has added the ability to tag your submissions with related keywords. read more »
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Seriously, if you're gonna redesign a site, it might as well be a cool one like WAN. You'll get a lifelong link, and Brent saying nice things about you. Plus, I'm gonna send you guitar hero so we can b*tch about Tom Morello being a guitar alien fr read more »
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A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
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It would appear that a new bug hit Digg overnight causing all submissions to have no end time in reaching the front page. As you can see below, even submissions with only 1 Digg are showing in upcoming after 1 day 10 hours. read more »
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Great guest post on ShoeMoney from Brent - go.. read and treat it as gospel ... read more »
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Anyone who’s ever feared or respected their mothers (that means you) knows what we’re talking about. Indeed, when you step back and consider the makings of this phenomenon, it’s nothing short of awe inspiring. The technology of social media has exte read more »
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Reddit.com just launched their highly anticipated redesign. There are quite a few new features, including the option for hard core Reddit fans to turn the view back to the compressed link format. Check it out. read more »
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Currently expected to launch sometime next week, if no further bugs or issues are discovered, the Reddit community has been vocal in what they like and hate about the new designs. Since the release earlier this month on May 7th, 2008, there have bee read more »
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I am not sure if anyone noticed or not, but Reddit.com has removed the advanced search option from it’s site. I used to use advanced search strings like “(site:brentcsutoras.com)” to check if anyone had submitted my posts to Reddit. read more »
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I am always open to trying out new social communities and tools. Even though I tend to spend more time using the ones that help me business wise, I will give them all a try at least once.

Facebook was cool, but I never logged, in unless I got an read more »
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Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn't evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won't be able to acheiv read more »
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Tamar gives her thoughts on FriendFeed (and even finds time to plug Sphinn as well ;0) ....nice...

» techipedia - Overall, however, FriendFeed offers something other social networks do not: aggregation of the finest social media sites (with the read more »
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SEOmoz's Rebecca serves up an interesting case study regarding "how-to" write titles and headlines for social media submissions. read more »
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