Posts Tagged With: Digg
· July 28, 2008 at 5:02 am · Web Development
Tags: clone, design, Digg, easy, free, news, online, quick, RSS, social
Always said you would like to have a social news site like digg, but didn’t have the time to develop or work on it? Thanks to slinkset.com, you don’t have to. They promise to deliver you your own social news site that you can customize, user your own domain on and auto-post links via RSS for free. Here are a few examples:
One more cool feature is it looks like you can create a private site too, that would only be accessible to the people you invite. Give slinkset.com a shot, and if you create one yourself feel free to share it here with us.
· November 7, 2007 at 9:00 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: bookmarks, Digg, hosting, news, Resources, review
There is another digg clone from the hosting world to look at today. HostingBookmarks.com is the first though to focus more towards hosting news and help rather than hosting deals.
I’d like to see them ditch the “this was made with Pligg” stuff - kind of makes a bad first impression. Funny enough though, when you register and login it goes away from public view so maybe it is something they are just not seeing. To be a success it looks like this web site just needs more members.
Submitting a link couldn’t be easier - so that is one positive. Here is an example link I submitted for testing purposes:
http://www.hostingbookmarks.com/WebHostingHelp/The_Web_Hosting_Show/
Overall with a little bigger of a user base and a few tweaks to the interface here and there, Hosting Bookmarks could be an awesome service and tools for finding out what is going on inside the hosting world.
So with Hosting Bookmarks in the mix, that makes three social hosting tools out there to date:
What will be next? I am still sort of surprised that none of the bigger hosting players have jumped into this mix - but then again it is still early in the game.
· October 3, 2007 at 6:10 am · Web Hosting
Tags: deals, Digg, hosting, social, vote, web
So will Top Host Deals become the digg of the web hosting world? Well there is a little ‘bit of competition out there in the market - ok, by competition I mean one other hosting deal social site Hostigg.com.
Top Host Deals looks nice and look as if it hit all the major high points to be a leader in this area of the web. You have the highest voted hosting deals. You have upcoming or just submitted deals. You have categories to help you trim down your search.
Now that Top Host Deals is out of the gate, I will be interested in seeing what they do to separate themselves from the crowd.
· August 31, 2007 at 9:04 am · Writing Advice
Tags: advice, bait, bookmarks, Digg, links, popular, social, vote
It seems like these days when I go check out my feed reader to do some reading from my favorite news sources and blogs - there are a lot of posts you can spot that were written just for the sake of trying to bait the social bookmarking and ranking sites for popularity’s sake.
I am not sure this is the best writing practice. Why? Well after you get success with it once, you try it again and again. After a while, all you have left are a lot of wasted hours that you could have spent doing something more creative.
Sure it seems like a lot of these links that you see on digg, delicious, and others seem to come with a pre-packaged and sure fire way to make it to the top. There is a lot to be said for creativity as well though. Just because you wrote one “top 50 Firefox extensions you can use under water” post does not mean that every top 50 post you write will be just as popular.
You also need to worry about offending your current audience as well. New readers are grand, but if you can’t keep them they might start to look elsewhere. Take for example Mashable.com.
I used to really love reading Pete’s web site but the last few weeks it has been nothing but top ten, twenty and thirty lists. I am sure he’s gotten a lot of incoming links from the social bookmarking places but as a reader - I am bored, and I am sure I am not alone.
So don’t write to become popular - become popular because of what you write.
· May 24, 2007 at 5:00 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: Digg, domains, investigate, links, news, records, register, whois
Call it curiosity or call it boredom.
If I owned my own cable news network, I could call it an investigation. When you tell somebody who doesn’t know about tech and Web-like things - you tell them to check out “digg” on the Web - they are going to first try “dig.com”. They aren’t going to find what they want though. Dig.com goes to a Disney Web site.
Diggg.com is also registered, although it does not go anywhere. It is owned by some guy in Norway? You can go look at the whois domain name information for yourself.
How about digggg.com? It is taken.
Work fast though, Diggggg.com is free for registration from what I could find.
· December 19, 2006 at 7:00 am · Online Tools, Personal
Tags: Digg, highlight, hosting, news, podcasts, social
I really love the new Digg layout that got launched yesterday. It is so much better than the last one that was released. After the last one, digg left it’s place for me as my start page - and I just started to subscribe to updates via the RSS feed.
Now though, I think I will find myself coming back more and more.
There is just so much goodness to check out right now, almost too much to talk about. Of course, being one of those prolific podcasters, I have to talk about the new podcast feature. Want to give me an early Christmas present?
Go Digg the Web Hosting Show Podcast!
Sure, when you look at the list of podcasts that are on top there are no big surprises right now. It is the same top list that every other podcast catcher or ranker shows. I doubt I would ever even break past ten diggs at the most. This feature does show that Digg has a future in finding new media and bringing it the attention it deserves.
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