It’s what you want. The very popular StumbleUpon concept is simple: when you sign up, you provide the service with some of your interests, and you install the neat little toolbar. Once you’ve got the application installed, you can simply begin stumbling and you can tell the system how you feel about the page that…
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Digg Comes Out With Friendly Buttons For Every Site
February 6th by BlueGlass Blogger
Today, Digg announced that it is offering improved functionality over plugins that you see on other blogs. Those who have been confused by the installation of such third-party tools should be happy to know that Digg has announced “smart” buttons, buttons that don’t only afford you the opportunity to Digg a blog post, but can…
Digg User Rankings Now Completely Gone
February 5th by Chris Winfield
It looks like Digg is pushing a bunch of new changes live this morning. One of the most significant ones is the absence of User Rankings from profile pages. As I covered last week, Digg had removed their Top Users list but this list was soon recreated by Chris Finke by scraping the profile pages…
Digg Top Users Now Permanently Redirected to the Digg Blog
February 2nd by Chris Winfield
Last night, Digg founder Kevin Rose posted on the offical Digg blog about a few changes that were being made. These changes were in response to lots of different stories about people gaming Digg and the unfairness he felt this put on the Digg top users: Which leads me to a disappointing trend that we’ve…
The Power of Digg Beyond Traffic
January 26th by Chris Winfield
There has been lots of debate this week about whether social media traffic is good or bad. I lean pretty heavily towards the GOOD side. But let’s look beyond that for a minute and look at another example of the power of social media with two very different companies: Sprint and Linden Lab. Last week,…
The Other Impact of Social Networks: Discussion and Criticism
January 26th by BlueGlass Blogger
The New York Times and similar newspaper websites have the “Share” button on their site for a reason: to promote stories and to encourage commentary. Once your content has been recognized in the social sphere, a byproduct of this promotion is discussion. The discussion, as we know, is not necessarily positive. In fact, in some…
Social Search and Why We Should Care: A Chris Sherman Webcast
January 25th by BlueGlass Blogger
I’ve really taken a liking to these SearchMarketingNow webcasts. In today’s webcast, I have had the pleasure to listen to Chris Sherman who tackled the topic of Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities. With a lot of social networks out there, where can you leverage your traffic and what problems can you foresee? Chris discusses these…
The Digging Debate: Is Social Media Worthless?
January 24th by BlueGlass Blogger
There’s a big debate in the blogosphere about long term effects (if any) related to being Dugg. Kim Krause Berg, who recently posted a ton of useful links relating to web design, had her post hit the Digg main page. From the exposure, her blog got 28,000 new hits. Her reaction? Not very positive. Kim…
You Know You Wanted More MyBlogLog Tools!
January 16th by BlueGlass Blogger
MyBlogLog is really a viral product. As more and more people blog about it and more and more people discover ways to exploit it, there are others (well, okay, the same guys) who have found ways to use the service to enhance user experience. SoloSEO has recently come up with a few excellent MyBlogLog tools…
YouTube Passes MySpace in Alexa Rankings
January 11th by Chris Winfield
This morning Smaran Dayal noticed that YouTube had overcome MySpace in the Alexa rankings. Dayal points out that although MySpace is still ahead of YouTube in pageviews, it has fallen behind in both Alexa rank and daily reach. MySpace is currently ranked at #6 while YouTube has risen to #4. As I have said in…