What a Front-page Digg Story Will Get You...cheatersI was saddened to hear that a small content startup had gotten some traction with visitors and Google love...because they paid for their front-page digg. I don't know the details, and I'm sure this site got their 3rd party consultants to do the...
In online marketing, an inbound link is legal tender for improving your valuable keyword rankings on Google or Yahoo! For years, marketers have been scraping the web and putting in the grunt work to try to lobby other site owners for links to their sites. It paid off, but...
Two weeks ago we talked about Wikipedia's power as a promotion tool, if used judiciously. Today, you're going to learn about Digg, the social media site dominated by 18-24 year-olds. Each headline that appears on Digg's homepage brings in an average of 129 inbound links -- which, by proxy,...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Digg, Inc., a pioneering Web community that enables the mass Internet audience to prioritize news and content, today announced that it has closed an initial round of funding in the amount of $2.8 million led by Greylock Partners with Omidyar Network and several angel investors, including Marc...
Air Force's men's basketball players trotted out of the locker room like a group being brought out for execution. Silently, they walked out in a straight line, one after another. Dead men walking against the powerful University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Four letters instantly recognizable to any...
By Paul Sweeting Here's what I think is the relevant question for the industry in the wake of the recent kerfuffle over the posting and hosting of AACS processing keys : What if you were simply allowed to rip your lawfully ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Easing the way for Web searchers to share information on topics of personal interest, community-oriented search engine PreFound.com (www.prefound.com) today introduced site improvements that give users the ability to manually post tagged links, access RSS feeds from topic experts and keywords, and import existing links from other...
Facebook Connect is set to extend its reach as Digg and Hulu integrate the service into their pages, according to The New York Times. The websites of the Discovery Channel and The San Francisco Chronicle also plan to adopt the service, which allows users to log-in with their Facebook...
On the heels of the collapse of print publishing, what if online media companies start failing, as well? Or, put another way, is Web 2.0 doomed just another bubble that will pop much as did the first dot.bomb? Reporter Spencer E. Ante at Business Week obtained financial...
Facebook, in an increasing attempt to prove its utility beyond its own site and hence build on its advertising potential in the long run, is expanding its Facebook Connect service on some major media and services sites, including *Discovery*.com, SFChronicle, Digg, Citysearch, CBS.com, Hulu and others. The Connect service...
Twitter-competitor Pownce is shutting down on December 15, following its acquisition by blogging firm Six Apart. Pownce says users can export their accounts to rival sites such as Six Apart’s Vox service, retaining their messages and media. A number of Pownce users are also expected to migrate to Twitter....
News aggregation site Digg is not for sale, says CEO Jay Adelson. Instead, the company will focus on building an independent business that reaches profitability as soon possible. This means cutting back its expansion plans and concentrating on projects with guaranteed revenues. ...
Today's Media Roundup: WB pulls out of YouTube, Digg losing money, Huffington Post accused of content theft, Denver paper starts Web site to save itself and "This Week" sees gain in ad revenue. by Sean Blanda
