Posts Tagged with ‘Digg’

There’s a nice little announcement from the blog comments aggregating service BackType that I thought is worth mentioning here as I know that many of the Profy readers have already grown accustomed to using BackType to track comments on the topics they are interested in or from the people they want to hear opinions from.
Basically BackType serves as an aggregator of comments from a variety of blogs - both standalone and published on multiple blogging platforms - for every commentator [...]

Last week I had a chance to speak with the team at Artiklz, a San Francisco based startup that is officially debuting in public alpha tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. The startup works in the blog commenting field and the first thing I thought was that the field was over-saturated already and did not need yet another player to add to Disqus, recently acquired by Automattic IntenseDebate or JS-Kit.
To my surprise, this has been a rare case [...]

Recently TechCrunch has initiated the rumors that eBay may be looking for a potential buyer for StumbleUpon (acquired for $75 million in May 2007) to sell this property for at least the amount it initially paid for it. Of course the blogosphere is actively engaged in various conversation of who could be the right buyer for StumbleUpon during the recession we are facing now. Earlier this week Om Malik has come up with an interesting suggestion for a potential buyer [...]

I have just noticed an unfamiliar domain in the referral traffic stats for Profy and since I know this is how bloggers often discover new startups I could not resist clicking the link and checking it out. Since the site is perfectly open for anyone to browse and even register freely I thought it would not hurt the creators (no idea who they are without any information on the about page or any mentions of the service anywhere) if I [...]

There’s an interesting article on Business Week today written by CEO of online reputation management company Rapleaf detailing the history of presidential candidates using various cutting-edge technologies of their respective ages to target voters better - from radio to television and cable ad networks. Now that we live in the 2.0 world there’s definitely tons of new tools to use to reach electorate in a more intimate and human manner - and these tools are heavily used by Barack Obama.
This [...]

Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they started with 100 and eventually reached 400 publishers). While absolutely anyone with a Yahoo account could submit stories from the supported publishers and vote them up or down, it was not possible to submit a story if it did not originate from one of those supported publishers.
The main incentive for publishers was that every day some [...]

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]

It was a peculiar day for Digg yesterday, I think. Yes, we all know that it is getting harder and harder to get to the front page of Digg due to Kevin and the team changing the algorithm so that votes from submitter's friends counted less than non-friends votes. And yes, we all know that you can't get on Digg front page just by writing a great (newsworthy, breaking actually, stylish - whatever) piece of content that [...]

It seems like, for better or worse, we just can't quite come to a decision about FriendFeed, can we?  Perhaps we're resigned to an endless back and forth about the social aggregating platform.  But, as many of us know, any controversy converts to traffic, which is something FriendFeed can take solace in.
Getting to the point, I just did a little checking of my feeds and read a post written by Allen Stern on the rather uncanny way a few [...]