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| Dec 24, 2013 | Why ‘viral mills’ like Buzzfeed & Upworthy are content marketing at its worst | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Not a day goes by without another viral content m... |
| Dec 24, 2013 | Why ‘viral mills’ like Buzzfeed & Upworthy are content marketing at its worst | Not a day goes by without another viral content mill popping up, or announcing how many millions of page views it has managed to accumulate within a short span of time. If I didn’t know any better, I would be incredibly envious of the posit... |
| May 19, 2009 | Digg: Shouts Out, Share on Facebook and Twitter In | During Digg’s Townhall (embedded below) this evening, founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson announced that the shout feature on Digg will be removed later this week to be replaced with a new share option that will “streamline your ability ... |
| Apr 12, 2009 | Digggate: Conspiracy Theory or Brave New World for Digg | Last week, Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, coined the term Digggate in response to concerns of a potential scandal surrounding Digg, Google and the Diggbar. According to Sullivan, Digg is deliberately skirting issues ... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Community Building 101 for the Bootstrapped Startup | Despite a worsening economy, some bootstrapped startups are witnessing tremendous growth, both in user participation and back-end development. Case in point, Tip’d, a four month old financial news site which has seen its monthly traffic dou... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Twitter Versus Plurk: The UI Advantage | When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I’ve realized that there is really just one major difference between Twitter and Plurk – ... |
| Jul 7, 2008 | How Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News | In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently). However it seems like Reddit is not gettin... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web | Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few edi... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Why Social News Sites Must Implement Social Search | Social news sites such as Digg, Propeller, Reddit, StumbleUpon, where the community decides what content is worthy and what content isn’t, are powerful enough to drive tens of thousands of visitors to some lucky content producers, and thus ... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone? | Plurk, the latest lifestreaming service to make the rounds, certainly has one thing going for it – a sense of humor, albeit an odd one. The site is currently riding a wave of new registrations due to a mention from Leo Laporte, but is it wo... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | @answerme Answers Your Questions On Twitter | While everyone takes a break to bash Twitter these past couple of weeks for the infrastructure troubles they’ve been having, I thought I would chime in with a useful service that I accidentally found within the past few days, which promises... |
| May 16, 2008 | Knewsroom: A Look at the Latest Social News Site | The way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. The end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process. This evolution ha... |
| May 1, 2008 | The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg | If you’re even peripherally involved in the social news space you are
probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has
with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false
accusations from disgruntled communit... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | With All Else Failing, Starbucks Tries Social Media | With Starbucks’ stock beaten down from its mighty highs of $47 to recent lows of $17 in the face of strong competition from Peet’s, Caribou, McDonald’s, and Dunkin’ Donuts and a suffering economy, the coffee house chain has made many change... |
| Mar 23, 2008 | Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan | Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb’s post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. I signed up for Fr... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Why Yahoo! Buzz is a Brilliant Idea | As soon as the online press got hold of a sliver of information about Yahoo! Buzz, the predictable cries of “Digg clone!” were loud enough to drown out anyone who thought that Yahoo! Buzz might be something more than a lame attempt at socia... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | 9 Reasons Why The Digg Story Sells | This guest post was written by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites.
Most of us know the Digg story. All it took was a scrappy-looking kid with an idea, and lo and behold... |
| Dec 26, 2007 | Alternate Reality Games: What Makes or Breaks Them? | Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have become an incredibly powerful viral marketing and audience
engagement tool over the last
couple of years. However, the elements of a
successful ARG remain a mystery to most people. Some of the most
succes... |
| Dec 2, 2007 | Digg Filter, a Recommendation Engine for Digg – Interview with Founder | This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites.
We have been hearing about an upcoming new way to discover content on
Digg for quite a while
now. The new Di... |
| Sep 19, 2007 | Netscape’s Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think | AOL’s social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer “the new Netscape”, Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be much more going on underneath the surface.
The news of the move was r... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | AT&T Rep Talks About Lengthy iPhone Bills | With all these 300-page iPhone bills being mailed out to AT&T customers, it was only a matter of time before someone started wondering how many trees would die a day. Now an AT&T rep is commenting on the issue and says that the comp... |