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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out.

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Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur

The Marketing Blog

11 pm Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur Jump to Comments ‘Oh shit.’ In our mind, we knew that was just one of those days when we as drivers of the startup car were being tested. Daksh said: Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur [link] [.] I know one thing.

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The Most Buried News Sites on Digg

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. Back in March Soshable noted that 46% of the Digg front page is controlled by 50 websites.

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. For this study we profiled 66 companies from ’9′ verticals and analysed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no. anyways, great job Daksh.

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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Why Customer Service is the Future of Social Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With the rise of Facebook’s popularity, the launch of Twitter, and the surge of influence from social news sites like Digg, social media looked to be a great breeding ground for marketers to make their mark. Digg was an incredibly powerful platform to drive traffic and pageviews to reasonably good content. Good call. (It’s

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On Leadership, Courage. And Sucking

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Digg and now Google Ventures ) video podcast called, Foundation. Horowitz is the cofounder and Partner (along with Marc Andreessen ) of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (investors in companies like Airbnb , Facebook , Fab , Foursquare , Instagram , Jawbone , Pinterest , Quirky , Skype , Twitter and the list goes on).