CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership
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The Valley veteran talks to CNET News.com and says that plenty of cool stuff is on the way through CBSNews.com's partnership with the social news site. By the way, he's not buying Digg anytime soon.
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Today Terry Heaton posted about how inside sources have tipped him off about MySpace making a social news play, fortifying them as more of an informational and 2.0 oriented portal and hopefully bringing about some maturity to MySpace. Of course, and despite what loyal Digg users may tell you, this is no &#8220;We want to be [...]
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New York Times Co  and business  news channel CNBC will share video and stories from each  other's Web sites in an alliance that could bolster them  against an expected assault by News Corp .
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I recently had the privilege of interviewing Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, which recently reached 1.8 million users. I typed four pages of notes in 8 point font. And thus was born the StumbleUpon Interview Series! In this first part of the series I seek to define the social media site StumbleUpon, first briefly with conceptual, jargony terminology and [...]
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Spam Digg For Only $20 A site dubbed User/Submitter is taking the manipulation of Digg to higher levels with a service that pays users $.50 for 5 Diggs, and charges its &#8216;advertisers&#8217; a base fee of $20, then $1 per Digg. According to Pronet Advertising (not associated with User/Submitter) it takes about 51 Diggs in 24 hours [...]
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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The last podcast of the year, for sure, it's a tutorial on the meaning of the at-sign in Twitter for Dave Sifry. Maybe I got it wrong? If so, post a comment here.
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So, if you don&#8217;t pay the people you have working for you, they&#8217;ll find ways to pay themselves. Jason Calacanis comments on Top 50 Digg Users accepting money from Public Relations firms: A PR/marketing firm confirmed with me that they had a number of the top 50 users on digg now on the payroll&#8211;and this wasn&#8217;t [...]
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Initial founder of Weblogs, Inc., ex-AOL employee and the man who Dugg Netscape, Jason Calacanis was Danny Sullivan&#8217;s guest today at Search Engine Strategies Chicago for the keynote conversation. Jason recently left his position at AOL and his Netscape project to pursue new avenues in social media, that direction still, is a mystery. Why is a [...]
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The social networking and news sharing site has always kept the precise details of its popularity algorithms a secret. But today, Digg did announce the nature of a change which could alter the entire meaning and purpose of the site.
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New York Times Co and business news  channel CNBC will share video and stories from each other's Web  sites in an alliance that could bolster them against an  expected assault by News Corp.
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Dell Inc has started using the social bookmarking model popularized by Digg.com as a form of suggestion box for its customers.
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News Corp.'s  Fox, Viacom Inc.  , CBS Corp. . and NBC Universal are in talks  about creating a video Web site to compete with Google Inc.'s   YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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A new Web site, Thoof, is an attempt to improve on sites like Digg and Reddit, where users filter and rank links to articles and blog entries.
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Metacafe, one of the world's largest video  sites, today announced the appointment of Erik Smith as vice president  of content and programming.
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Muhammad Saleem, the new addition to the Pronet Advertising blog, today made a post exposing how the owner of a site named BringPopcorn.com tried to pay multiple Top 10 Diggers $500 to Digg his site and have it appear on the Digg homepage. Hello, I need a favor. I run a website bringpopcorn.com. Would you get my website [...]
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The co-creator of the new Web show talks about creating for the Web, the 20-something experience, and why inking a partnership with MySpace was 'a deal with the devil.'