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Social News Watch
My StumbleUpon PageBest Advice for Mixx: Stop Following Digg
This won’t be a popular article. It can’t be Dugg because it mentions Mixx and it can’t be Mixxed because it seems to lean towards being critical. In hopes of my true feelings being expressed and understood, let me say that I love Digg and I love Mixx. Both are the best at what they do.
What do they do? Digg serves up the ultimate in news niblets for us to ingest at our leisure. It grants incredible exposure to quality content and helps blogs, large and small, to pop up on someone’s screen who never would have visited otherwise. This doesn’t even touch on the other recipients such as YouTube, Flickr, and traditional news sources online.
Mixx does the same thing, right? Well, sort of. Mixx does offer the same type of quality content. It does grant exposure, but not on the same scale (or in the same ballpark) as Digg. Still, its strength lies in the people and their attitudes. For the most part, Mixx is a much more social and sociable platform that Digg or any of its clones. Read more
Please buy me a cup of coffee.More Social News Watch is in the Works
Hello friends. Several have asked when the Social Media Superstar story is coming. The answer is: very soon.
We’ve been going through some transitions over here lately. One of the writers has moved on to bigger and better things, leaving social media to pursue a career in search engine optimization. No hard feelings, but now we need more writers and contributors.
We started a new blog, one that is not in Digg autobury status. That did not have anything to do with the decision to start it, but we felt that having two separate venues would allow us to truly focus this blog on social media and let the other blog cover social media, social bookmarking, social networks, and everything social.
Thus, soshable.com was born.
Changes in my wordload will allow us to spend more time blogging and promoting a couple of social networking projects we’re working on. That, I guess, is the point of this post. We’ll be posting some strong stories on here and other places soon, but for now, ANY suggestions on story ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Please buy me a cup of coffee.Call for Quotes from Social Media Superstars
We are putting together a piece about social media superstars and what motivates them. Looking for opinions. Please leave your opinions or quotes in the comments of this story.
There are those who spend several hours every day on social media websites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Mixx, Sphinn, and StumbleUpon. These sites invariably get huge benefit by having these people, as they can themselves become part of the news. The question is, “What’s in it for them?”
Is it the fame and notoriety? Few use their real names as their profile name, so that COULD be it, but I tend to think it’s a small part.
Power? Most have heard of the Digg Effect, while a power Stumbler can have a huge effect on a website with a click of a button. Do they enjoy knowing that they’ve helped out a blog or website tremendously (or possibly killed their server) by sending thousands of people to their website? Perhaps.
Is it an earnest desire to spread quality content? Maybe they’re promoting an opinion, a trend, a product? Helping a candidate or a cause?
Maybe it’s just fun. As one top Digger who already answered the question for me noted, “Some people play Xbox 360.” He, on the other hand, shuts down servers. Hopefully, we’ll know soon enough.
The story itself will probably be posted here, but it may end up on my new blog (with nothing currently on it) at soshable.com. Either way, I’ll let you know. Please post your comments.
Please buy me a cup of coffee.Media Killed the Bookmarking Star: del.icio.us traffic falls below StumbleUpon, Reddit
For the first time in over a year, del.icio.us, the social bookmarking darling that made it cool to share your favorites, has fallen in traffic below social media powerhouses reddit.com and StumbleUpon according to compete.com’s December numbers. Propeller, formerly Netscape, is closing in on del.icio.us as well.
While Compete’s numbers are often inaccurate, it is still a bad trend and lends to the idea that social media is replacing social bookmarking as a way to save faves. Both StumbleUpon and Reddit, as well as most other social media websites, offer ways of saving or bookmarking websites beyond the primary ability of sharing stories, videos, and pictures. StumbleUpon gives each user a blog that they can save any page that they review, while reddit offers an option to save any page that is submitted. Read more
Please buy me a cup of coffee.Sick of Social Media Political Spam? Just wait. It’s Going to Get Worse.
Social Media websites are flooded with postings promoting one presidential candidate or insulting another. Conventional wisdom says that after the nominations are handed out, we will see a decrease simply because there will be fewer people to post stories about. This assumption is incorrect, but we’ll explain that later. Right now, the landscape for social media coverage is starting on a temporary downslide. Read more
Banned at Digg? Talk to the Hand!
The issue has been building up for a few weeks now. It’s taboo, of course, to discuss Digg.com in a negative light, but there have been “closed-door” secret meetings amongst diggers recently. Via GTalk, it’s a hot topic among active diggers.
A couple of weeks ago, Tamar Weinberg posted Why Nobody Should Buy Digg. It details some of the circumstances behind recent bannings and the apparent turnaround in how Digg handles them. In short, they don’t. If you’re banned, Digg won’t talk to you. They won’t talk to anyone else about you. Read more
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