Tag Archives: Social News

Hated Or Loved? Get Front Paged After Being Buried

Sadly this isn't possible on Digg, though it would be interesting if they provided a page with the most buried or hated stories. After all, just because you don't like a story doesn't mean it is spam, but it is still news.

Jack Spirko has knocked together an interesting site where your story can appear on the front page because it is "hated" and I feel the idea is worthy of a mention.

You can see that currently the hated stories seem to only appear in the sidebar - I would love them to be integrated with the main results by default

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Best Of Ebay – Ebay Sellers Christmas Opportunity

I know that lots of my readers sell stuff through Ebay, in fact many of them make a full time living doing it.

Ebay have now launched their own Social News site to highlight the weird and wonderful best items for sale on Ebay, past and present.

What is strange is that it doesn't appear on their community "sneak peek" though it is still in beta.

There also doesn't appear to be any mention of it on the Ebay blog.

How much traffic a site like this could drive really depends on how much Ebay decide to promote it, but it if

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How To Find The Hottest Breaking Stories On Sphinn

We all lead busy lives, and finding ways to optimize our online research is vital for time management. As the Sphinn user base increases, finding the wheat among the chaff becomes more time consuming. In the future Sphinn will allow some sort of filtering based upon your friends, but what can you do now to maximise the signal to noise ratio? The Front Page Of Sphinn This is an obvious stop, and hopefully it won't be filled with "made For Sphinn" articles every day. Sphinn Greatest Hits Eventually this will contain a superb overview of the online marketing industry, though as Sphinn is still very new, a lot of the current top posts are related to Sphinn. Sphinn Upcoming Most Popular I found a gem from Danny Sullivan in a comment and wanted to highlight how much
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Sphinn – SEM Attention Wars

Having just come back from a week in Florida, striving to improve not only my own powers of concentration and focus, but how to grab and maintain the attention of readers and customers, for the last few days I have been thinking a little about Sphinn… some of those thoughts haven’t been pleasant, and to be perfectly honest, the good thoughts had very selfish motives.

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Blogcatalog
Blogger Social Networking Hub

Blogcatalog is slowly becoming much more than a just a blog directory and is making strides to differentiate itself from MyBlogLog and other Blog Social Networks and widgets.

Some of the things being added are almost invisible, others are much more visible and hint at how a site can leverage partnerships with other communities to broaden their reach, and provide simple feature additions that just make a site more sticky.

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Blogger Social Networking Hub…

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AOL News: Digg Censoring News About AOL?

The revamp of AOL News today is quite significant, and Reuters being first to break the news is a trusted source of information.

I thought it was strange that the story hadn’t been submitted to Digg, because it was already appearing on Megite.

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Choosing The Right Social Bookmarking Sites

Providing social bookmarking buttons can be a service to your visitors, and help highlight your best content on various social networks and news services, but you must think carefully about which ones you include, and where.

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In Depth Review | Traffic Strategy | Stampede Secrets 2.0 – Social Media Marketing From A Unique Perspective?

Stampede Secrets 2.0 is unlike any internet marketing report or ebook I have read…

If spending $97 on an ebook is a major financial commitment, don’t read any further

Ok, for the rest of you lets get on with the review…

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Headline Split Testing Social News With The Same Article For Massive Traffic

John Wesley over at Pick the Brain really is “getting smarter every day”.

He had a great article, he submitted it himself, and it flopped on Digg.

Doesn’t that happen to us all? Multiple Times?

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