Dean here again from DeanHunt.com - Welcome to part two of my buzz/viral marketing case study.Today I am going to show you a step by step guide on exactly how I got a random story onto the Digg.com main page LAST WEEK. Here is the back story: M
Over the weekend I read an article on digg about a way to speed up Safari by removing an initial page loading delay. It reminded me about an article Dave Hyatt – one of the developers of Safari - wrote about the FOUC problem last Se
Having reviewed Microsoft Expression Web back in June 2006, giving it rating of 3 out of 5, I was glad of the opportunity to have a look over the final release version of the product, to see how well it supports designers in creating sites using CSS
Listening, unfortunately, is a trait which many businesses lack, often times, leaving users or customers feeling upset or alienated because their needs aren't being met or their concerns aren't being addressed. This is why when your users (i.e. your
With Digg.com being one of the hottest destinations on the net, it was obviously not going to be long before it released an iPhone compatible version of the site. An unofficial version had previously been created, and interestingly enough, the Digg
Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. We hope to organize the vast amount of design-related content available into specific categories where articles are displayed in order of popularity.
Thoof is a new service that aims to bring you news stories and blog posts custom-tailored for you. It might be easiest to think of it as a similar idea to how Netflix or iTunes gives you personalized movie and music recommendations based on your ren
Social media marketing, if done right, can have a significant impact on brand awareness and popularity. However, many companies fail to utilize this cheap (and in many cases free) method of marketing. By looking at social media ranks for companies,
One year ago Rand Fishkin posted some quite interesting and at the same time incredibly damning statistics about how a small number of contributers were doing most of the work on Digg and were responsible for a majority of the content on the front p
Design Float was featured on Killer Startups (a startup about startups, go figure) a few weeks ago. It’s actually a pretty neat Digg style website and they’re currently adding about 30 new startups a day. Anyway, if you have some free time, head ove
A review of Burak Arikan's Meta-Markets economic simulation. The project speculates on the notion of social capital, ascribing value to usage of digg, facebook, del.icio.us and flickr.
5 sites that specialize in web design related news. These are actual niche sites, not categories of larger sites like Digg and Reddit. Design Float is included.
Machine-based interaction is a common feature of Web 2.0 sites like Digg, Facebook and Dilicious, and these days it goes well beyond simple web feeds. An application programming interface (API) is ...
digg.com has made it extremely easy to integrate their services into weblogs. Want a digg-button on your blog displaying the number of diggs a post has? No problem. Want that ultra-cool “digg-style� rating-system in your comments? No problem either.
Digg is a great concept. In my opinion, it has made the single greatest contribution to the awareness of the difference between traditional media and the web. Because of Digg, we are now able to comment and vote on just about everything. Now, all du