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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react. Completely.

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A Review of the New Digg Images and Universal Taxonomy.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo. That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves.

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Social Media Friendly Blogging

Jason Yormark

Linked In Groups are a great way to drive additional traffic, and don’t forget secondary channels like Reddit , Digg and Stumbleupon. Not all channels use a preview image, but ones such as Facebook and Digg do, and if you choose smart, they can contribute to higher click-thrus. Don’t just stop with Twitter or Facebook.

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Social Media Friendly Blogging

Jason Yormark

Linked In Groups are a great way to drive additional traffic, and don’t forget secondary channels like Reddit , Digg and Stumbleupon. Not all channels use a preview image, but ones such as Facebook and Digg do, and if you choose smart, they can contribute to higher click-thrus. Don’t just stop with Twitter or Facebook.

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Old Spice: Successful Social Media Campaign

Mindjumpers

Two days ago, Old Spice started a new phase of the campaign with the shirtless Old Spice guy in a bathroom giving responses to tweets, blog posts and comments – each response with a video put on Youtube. So what Old Spice is doing is to simply make short video answers in reply to all the comments on their Youtube channel. .

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