Netscape Reaches 100,000 Registered Users

by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Netscape

Since I haven’t seen this noted anywhere, I just wanted to point out that Netscape passed a milestone on December 24, 2006 when they reached 100,000 registered users. That’s nothing to sneeze at after 6 months.
By comparison, Digg took 11 months to reach that milestone, but they were filling a relatively unestablished niche at the […]

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Social Bookmarking 2006 - A Year In Review

by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Social Media, The Blog Herald

It was a breakthrough year for social bookmarking. Several big new players burst on the scene. Participation in social bookmarking sites exploded. Social news sites got their foot in the door of the most mainstream news sites on the web. Social bookmarkers saw green in a variety of ways. Controversies abounded more frequently within communities […]

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The Blog Herald

by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: The Blog Herald

I’m happy to announce that I have taken a position as a weekly contributor to The Blog Herald. I will be covering the same scope of topics that I have written about here (social bookmarking, social news, etc.). For my first column, I have reviewed the recent changes to Digg. Stay tuned for more.

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I’ve been tagged… Five things you don’t know about me.

by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Uncategorized

Chris Finke tagged me, and I wont rest until I think of a way to make him regret it…
In the meantime, here are 5 things that you probably don’t know about me:
1. I worked for a summer in a pesticide/fertilizer plant, where employees whiled away the hours tossing snow-ball-sized bags of dry rat poison at […]

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