Pligg. A Warning To The Prospectors
A look at the realities of starting a social media site using Pligg, an open source Digg clone.
Posted in Social Networking on Thursday, June 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
Front Page On Digg Feels Good!
On Friday, I submitted a couple of posts I’d read to Digg. Two days later I return home to discover that both were fantastically popular and had hit the Digg homepage! I’m on a high about this right now, so this celebratory post details how I wrote the submissions and how popular they became!
Posted in Social Networking on Sunday, May 6 2007 | Leave a comment »
Using Social Bookmarking Sites The Ethical Way
Social Bookmarking services allow people to store their bookmarks online and share them with other people. There’s a popularity element to the process too – most bookmarking sites publish lists of the currently most popular items based on a number of criteria. Smart webmasters know that by getting their sites listed on the ‘popular’ lists [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, May 4 2007 | 5 Comments »
Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking
In this post, I investigate an often-overlooked social bookmarking service called ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia has a raft of social networking and community features that in my opinion beat the other services hands-down. I’ll tell you why here.
Posted in Social Networking on Tuesday, April 17 2007 | 6 Comments »
Power Browsing: Turn The del.icio.us Bookmarks Extension Into An Essential Web Toolkit
How to get the most from del.icio.us/FireFox integration. My power tips for customizing the FireFox Bookmarks extension provided by del.icio.us to turn your browser into a Swiss Army Knife!
Posted in Social Networking on Thursday, April 12 2007 | Leave a comment »
Del.icio.us Bookmarks Extension For FireFox
In this post I look at some of the cool new features in the del.icio.us Bookmarks extension for FireFox. If you haven’t played with social bookmarking services yet, you’re missing an exciting part of Web 2.0. This new extension replaces the bookmarking functionality built into FireFox with a synchronised version of your del.icio.us bookmarks.
Posted in Social Networking on Wednesday, April 11 2007 | Leave a comment »
