All Entries Tagged With: "Digg"
My Eyes Have Been Opened To The Power Of Twitter
I have to confess that until last month I tried to ignore twitter because I thought it was a waste of time. I was convinced that there was no real value in twitter and that it was another distraction like facebook that I didn’t need. However, just as facebook turned out to be a very [...]
Digg Ads Doomed To Fail
I had to check the date today to check it wasn’t 1st April when I saw the announcement from Digg for Digg Ads. This has got to be one of the worst thought out new ad programmes.
Digg Ads are displayed inline with comments on Digg, and the more times an ad is dugg, the less [...]
How To Remove The Diggbar On Your Site
One of my posts on Windows 7 News got Dugg last night and I wanted to remove the Diggbar to ensure that any backlinks that I might get if it makes it onto the Digg homepage (we’re at 30 diggs so far so all help appreciated!) got credited back to my site.
If you are wondering [...]
Great Plugin To Increase Comments: BackType Connect
I’ve just added a new Wordpress plugin to my sites that I think will help drive more comments on the site, and also give me more visibility of what readers are saying about my posts on other sites.
The BackType Connect plugin adds comments made on other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and Reddit to your site [...]
Punditit.com – Become Your Own Sports Pundit
I stumbled across a new Pligg powered website last week called Punditit, which I thought was a very clever implementation of Pligg’s software to create a ‘digg’ based voting site. I was very surprised though to see that one of my colleagues who I used to sit next to was one of the founders!
Everyone thinks [...]
30 Fantastic Web 2.0 Icons from Social.me
I’ve just updated the social network bookmarking icons on my site using some fantastic icons from Social.me I found via estellatse’s site. Social.me’s icon set come in 4 different sizes – 60×60, 48 x48, 24 x 24 and 16 x16. I think they look fantastic and are much nicer than the tiny 16×16 icons I [...]
SocialBrowse is StumbleUpon on Steroids
One of the most popular methods of finding random websites, is StumbleUpon. You simply install a small toolbar that adds on to Firefox or IE, and you simply click ‘Stumble’ to find your next great website. The service is so popular, that Ebay decided to acquire them in 2007 for $75 Million. [...]
Popacular – The Way Del.icio.us Should Be Organized
One of the few lacking features that Del.icio.us doesn’t have is a better organization/sort ability. Viewing by tags and viewing only the most current popular items. What Delicious needs to do is organize only the most popular items in the past hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, week, month, or even all time. [...]
Add Digg Labs Products as a Screensaver
I still love Digg. Although not as much as I used to, when it was almost strictly technology based, I probably still frequent it, much more then any other website on the net. It still has the ability to bring almost each and every top story of the day, and do it before [...]
Windows 7 News Breaks 2K Uniques Per Day
The Windows 7 News site that I share with Martin from gHacks is going from strength to strength. Yesterday it broke 2k unique visitors for the day. It had passed this milestone before, but only when we made it onto Digg for a few days.
Even more impressive is the pages viewed per visitor, [...]
13 Signs You May Be A Digg Power User
I know this image is a few months old, but I’m assuming that not all readers have seen it. The image was created by Gawker Media conceptual artist Richard Blakeley to explain why the type of users Digg attracts, might not make it a very attractive purchase to blue chip companies like Yahoo, Microsoft [...]
Poll: When Will Windows 7 Launch?
The buzz around Windows 7 is starting to build and on Connected Internet’s sister site Windows 7 News we are running our first poll asking readers when they think Windows 7 will launch. Head on over now and cast your vote in the ‘When Will Windows 7 Launch?‘ poll.
So far the smart money seems seems [...]
How To Create A Massive Spike of Traffic
Everyone knows that social media drives crippling traffic, especially if it’s from Digg or StumbleUpon. Get onto the frontpage of digg with 200 votes and your server easily overloads. This is often the case if you’re not on dedicated hosting. Are you prepared to experience this kind of traffic? Then you want to Subvert and [...]
The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest
In the next two weeks I’ll host the biggest contest ever on The Beta News. Actually it’s the first contest ever here, but who’s counting?!
Now the rules to participate are developed by my twisted brain, so hopefully this will be a contest unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
The rules are fairly simple.
Google Page Rank Fallout – Possible Legal Action?
I’m so happy that Andy B sent me a digg shout (I take it back – I don’t hate them!) with the shocking news about the latest Google PageRank update, as I would have missed it totally as I’ve been working so hard this week I haven’t read any feeds.
Andy’s latest post (again read via [...]
Are You Getting Sick Of Digg’s Shout Feature As Well?
I’m not quite sure when Digg introduced the new ‘Shout’ feature, but it is really starting to drive me crazy. I’m not a very active Digg user, but since the introduction of Shouts I’ve received over 1,000 Shouts. Some of my friends are now sending me so many Shouts that I just delete them automatically [...]
10 PageRank Increasing Myths
I’m sure you’ve all read several ‘build PageRank quick’ guides in the past, however, all is not as it seems.
Why share the secrets if they work for you? Disinformation abound. I try to debunk many of the common myths of pagerank and site building. Take a look.
Friday Fun: How To Kill 5 Mins (or more….)
Today is Friday and I think I should post something entertaining. When you work for 14hrs of work time, time kills itself and you have little time for going out and having fun. If you have a busy life then this post is not for you! These time killers are very addictive – you [...]
Friday Fun: Crazy Backflip Videos
When I was growing up in Nottingham there used to be an old railway bridge that overlooked an approx 100ft drop, and one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen was when one of my brother’s friends who was a gymnast did a handstand over the drop.
However, some of these backflip videos I discovered via [...]
Find The Best Deals With Shlogging.com
Chitika are trying to get involved with the rapidly growing community shopping space, by launching Shlogging.com, which is designed to help readers find the best online shopping deals and offers.
The slogan for Shlogging.com is ‘dig for deals’ so you would probably guess that it’s going to have a Digg like interface, and you wouldn’t be [...]
