Tag Archives: digg

Don’t use Digg as a URL shortner

Posted on July 21, 2009 by vrreddy

There is no shortage of URL shortners, but Digg.com URL shortening service provided one of the easiest ways to create short URLs. When the diggbar launched Digg was accused of framing other sites, and this was later changed so that … Continue reading →

Digg is making changes to Diggbar

Posted on April 15, 2009 by vrreddy

Diggbar, the recently launched framebar and URL shortner got alot of criticism for the way it frames the content and redirects the URLs. Digg has listened to the feedback and now offers changes to the Diggbar.

How to block the Diggbar

Posted on April 11, 2009 by vrreddy

The Diggbar, which launched recently by Digg is one of the hot debates in the blogosphere. Some feel it is evil and think that it increases digg experience for digg users. In publisher point of view it is evil in … Continue reading →

Diggbar is live with shorturl service

Posted on April 2, 2009 by vrreddy

Digg.com has just launched a virtual toolbar called the DiggBar that lets users submit stories to digg, shorten the URLs. Using the diggbar users can digg directly on the site itself, the URL can be shared on other sites like … Continue reading →

Traffic Trends for Social News Sites

Posted on August 29, 2008 by vrreddy

Royal Pingdom published a new report on traffic trends for social news sites. The study reminds us there are some fast growing social news sites other than Digg to consider for promoting your posts. The sites included in this study … Continue reading →

Digg Firefox 3 Extension with Live Notifications

Posted on August 6, 2008 by vrreddy

Digg released an official Firefox 3 extension that adds a digg toolbar to the Firefox browser, the tool will let you know if the page you are visiting is already submitted to digg, if it is submitted it will show … Continue reading →

Yahoo Buzz Will Open to Small Publishers Soon?

Posted on July 8, 2008 by vrreddy

Yahoo Buzz launched in February in beta with some high profile sites and later expanded to some other sites. But it never allowed small publishers in to the program. I myself applied to the program when it was launched, but … Continue reading →

Mixx Communities

Posted on June 25, 2008 by vrreddy

Mixx today expanded its groups feature to more customized niche communities. With this new feature any one can create a community of their niche topic. The communities will reside on subdomains at mixx, limited customization can be done by changing … Continue reading →

BigNews: Ask’s take on Google News/Techmeme

Posted on February 6, 2008 by vrreddy

In the last few days we have seen rumors about Ask.com working with Digg to create a white label Digg like site. The project is “BigNews” and is not a Digg clone but rather a Google News/Techmeme like news tracker.

Frustrated with Digg, head over to Mixx

Posted on November 25, 2007 by vrreddy

Techcrunch is reporting that frustrated Digg contributors are heading over to Mixx, a new web 2.0 site for social news. What is Mixx Mixx has the same functionality as Digg, users can share stories, vote on favorites and comment on … Continue reading →