Archive for the ‘Web News’ Category

Bit.ly Surpasses Tinyurl.com As The Default URL Shortener For Twitter.com

Bit.ly Surpasses Tinyurl.com As The Default URL Shortener For Twitter.com

When using Twitter it’s almost inevitable that you will need to use a URL shortening service at some point when posting web links, The most used and recognized link shortener until recently has been Tinyurl.com. Bit.ly however has now overtaken...

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Author: Lincoln on May 24th, 2009

Category: Web News

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FAQPal A Digg Type Tutorial Website For Web Designers / Developers

FAQPal A Digg Type Tutorial Website For Web Designers / Developers

FAQPal is a new social news website recently launched which aims to list the best Web Developer and Design tutorials from around the web. There are a few other existing sites providing this service on the web Designbump.com, DesignFloat.com, Dzone.com,...

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Author: Lincoln on May 23rd, 2009

Category: Pligg, Startups

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WeFollow A User Powered Twitter Directory By Kevin Rose Of Digg

WeFollow A User Powered Twitter Directory By Kevin Rose Of Digg

Founder of Digg Kevin Rose is one of the most followed users on Twitter over 400′000 at the time of writing, it’s hardly surprising then that Rose’s latest project launch is a user generated twitter directory titled WeFollow. If you enjoyed...

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Author: Lincoln on April 3rd, 2009

Category: Social News

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DiggBar Tool Launched By Digg

DiggBar Tool Launched By Digg

DiggBar a new tool for the popular social news website digg.com launched earlier today. The DiggBar enables you to Digg, read comments, find related content, and share stuff from any page on the Web. And it’s presented in a short...

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Author: Lincoln on April 3rd, 2009

Category: Social News

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Tweetmeme Find The Hottest Stories On Twitter

Tweetmeme Find The Hottest Stories On Twitter

Tweetmeme is a new website that aggregates the number of time a blog url, video, image or audio file has been linked to on twitter.com then ranks them in order of popularity is picking up momentum. Looking similar to the...

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Author: Lincoln on March 22nd, 2009

Category: Social Networking

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Digg Townhall Webcast February 26, 2009

Digg Townhall Webcast February 26, 2009

In Digg’s fifth townhall, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson answers questions put to them by the digg userbase covering topics such as power users, customized Digg pages, and dupe detection, with special guest Anton Kast, Digg’s VP of Research &...

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Author: Lincoln on March 6th, 2009

Category: Social News, Videos

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10 Surefire Tips to Grow Your Niche Social Media Site Bigger than Digg

10 Surefire Tips to Grow Your Niche Social Media Site Bigger than Digg

“OK, there was a little hyperbole in the title. Still, I’d like to think I can speak with some authority on the topic: the Tip’d community has grown to over 3,000 members in less than three months (and...

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Author: Christopher Clayton on January 14th, 2009

Category: Development, Startups

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Some Things To Consider Before Launching A Digg Type Social News Site

Some Things To Consider Before Launching A Digg Type Social News Site

Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is...

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Author: Lincoln on December 1st, 2008

Category: Social News

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