Tag Archives: Digg

Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating

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That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way that [...]

NY State embraces Social Networking

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In good news for today, NY State IT Department has issued a series of guidelines for State Agencies to use Web 2.0, new media and social collaborative tools. The downside is that there is going to have to be training, the upside to the Empire 2.0 strategy is that it could end up [...]

How much does that User Generated Content mean to you

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Louis Gray posted an article looking back at the last three major user lead revolutions when it comes to users balking against what look like seemingly arbitrary changes on the part of a social community. All three, Digg, Facebook and now Twitter center around thee major ideas, functionality, censorship, and privacy. He also [...]

Rewarding linking blogs and systems

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Sometimes people are slow on the uptake, but how do you pay back the folks that link back to you. While link love is always good, sometimes you might want to just go back and do something special for all those folks that link to you.
Hence there is a new techwag policy [...]

Banned in Google here is how to get traffic

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With Google off doing its own thing, sometimes people and web sites will find themselves not getting any traffic from Google. There are ways around this; most of it relies on social networking, and just how much you do not want to deal with the vagarities of a big box company.
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