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Five Ways To Score Big On Digg

The big social media sites receive thousands of submissions continually. Yours doesn't have to be one that never escapes Digg's Upcoming section, or the basement of any social bookmarking presence.

SMX Social Media Conference

Last week I attended the SMX Social Media Conference in Long Beach California, here are some of my thoughts about the event.

Digg Loses Its Techie Luster

The social media site boomed to popularity with its early focus on technology, an area that has become less important to Digg's masters as they seek a broader audience.

Web Info Leads To "Shocking" Crime

Putting to use knowledge gained from the Internet, a Connecticut teen was arrested for attempting to shock a classmate—literally shock a classmate—with a rigged disposable camera.Twenty years ago, this would have earned you detention. In light of certain third graders, though (among other nightmarish events), it means calling the cops.

Publish2 Receives $2.7 Million In Funding

Online news aggregator startup Publish2 has raised $2.75 million in funding from Velocity Interactive Group, a digital media investment firm.

Yahoo Buzzing After Digg

As expected by its model, Yahoo Buzz sends plenty of traffic to the news publishers who have agreements in place with Yahoo to be part of their new social media site.

News And Media Crowd Fond Of Yahoo Buzz

New Hitwise statistics create an interesting comparison between Digg and Yahoo Buzz.  Depending on which side of the "blogs and personal websites" and "news and media" divide a site stands, it seems the second entity is either almost worthless or nearly as valuable as the first.

Adelson Dismisses Digg Sale Rumors

Purported interest in Digg by Google and Microsoft made for a hot rumor earlier, but Digg CEO Jay Adelson said rumors is all they were.

Obama, Google Tops At Digg

The following results from my little, informal study are hardly definitive, but they are interesting. Someone following up with a more intensive and scientifically rigorous quantitative analysis might find the same thing I did: stories related to Barack Obama are submitted more often to Digg.com than stories about Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Ron Paul.On the tech side, Google takes the prize against Microsoft, and stories about Microsoft outpace Linux.

SMX West: Social Media And The SEO

Fickle yet valuable, traffic from social media sites represents a way of generating lots of page views in a very short, and profitable, period of time.