iBegin Toronto is a socially driven local search engine. This means that it is a search engine for local places (stores, restaurants, bars, etc.) where all of the listings are user-contributed. Users can contribute reviews and pictures of local destinations. Currently it services the Toronto area.
I’m very excited to spread the word that iBegin has […]
Every day, more content producers are recognizing the impact that socially edited news sites have on the internet’s consumption of news and they want in on the fun. As a result, one of the questions I am asked most frequently about social news sites is “how can I get my article onto the front page?”
Good […]
This morning, The Washington Post ran an article about the recent buzz around social bookmarking and Netscape’s move to pay people to do it. Many of my new colleagues at Netscape, as well as myself, were interviewed for the article. The article turned out great as an overview of the current landscape of professional bookmarking.
It […]
Netscape has a very handy JavaScript widget for publishers to put in their content. The widget checks if your content has been submitted to Netscape. If it hasn’t been submitted, a submit button is placed on your page as shown below:
If it has already been submitted, it displays the number of votes and comments, with […]
Alex Weidmann presents proof that Digg is replacing the URLs of duplicate stories with those of original stories. He also asks the question: what else are moderators doing to our submissions without us knowing?
According to some users, submissions are having their categories changed without notice. While speaking with a user by the name of Aidenag, […]
PiggNation is a weekly video podcast which discusses the most popular stories of Digg’s World News & Politics section. It stars Steven Christe and Dan Rummel, a couple of guys who get drunk and wax philosophical about the hottest stories, with laptops in hand.
Sound familiar? It should. It was inspired by Diggnation, the weekly video […]
People have been asking me a lot of questions about etiquette while social bookmarking. I thought I would play Miss Manners and share the code of conduct which I apply to myself while social bookmarking. I think this contributed to me becoming a top-ranked digger. These are dos and don’ts which you wont find in […]
The political categories of socially driven news sites are unlike any others. Submitters are treated differently than they are in other categories. Stories and commenters are also treated differently. Users are banding together to get stories promoted which push agendas. These factors and others are affecting how well social bookmarking sites can report political stories.
Digg […]
Digg users are asserting that AOL, specifically Weblogs Inc., is spamming Digg. And the community is none too pleased. The term “spamming” in this instance refers to a couple of dozen users that are systematically digging each other’s content. Is this really spam?
Yes
Let’s assume that it is, in fact, spam. This would mean that we […]
I’ve been asked how I handle URLs on sites like Digg and Netscape. The URLs you choose to submit actually make quite a difference. Their uniqueness plays a big factor in getting promoted to the front page.
The more unique a URL is to a story, the less likely duplicates of that story will be submitted. […]
