Category: Digg
Digg sold for $500,000
Social Bookmarking and news website, Digg has just sold for $500,000 USD plus equity to San Francisco company Betaworks. Digg was once a very popular social media website and had a massive US and international audience. Over the years the company received $45 million USD in venture capitalist funding. Apparently the site still gets over 16 million […]
Read More | ShareThe Digg Effect – a Google Analytics Visual
In the world of blogging we are always looking to social media tools and websites to help drive traffic and engagement from users. One website that is often overlooked to achieve this is Digg.com. For some time I have been experimenting with a wide variety of content on Digg and trying to determine what would […]
Read More | ShareHow to get Dugg on the front page of Digg
In the world of social media marketing we are always looking for new ways to get eyesballs and traffic to our websites. Weather you are looking to sell a particular product, or just website advertising the more traffic, the more money you will make. Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious are all still […]
Read More | ShareDigg stops publishers posting content via RSS
Social Bookmarking service, Digg, has banned publishers and users from submitting their content via RSS. It is believe alot of spammers were using the RSS feature to post their content onto Digg, and in return was a drain on Digg’s resources to remove unsuitable/irrelevant content. Since Digg updated their site last year they have seen […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – January 2011
With Australia day over lets look at the Social Media Statistics across Australia for January 2011 – which sites are most popular? what is the trend? and can we see any new trends/ players in the Australian market? I think the most important stat to note is the number of Unique Australian Visitors (UAVs) per […]
Read More | ShareHow big sites overtake Digg and make it less useful
Digg recently relaunched its new version and became a RSS driven site from a fully interactive user controlled site. This new version of Digg got very negative response from its users and also it is no longer a site where users come to find new content on the web that is useful for them instead […]
Read More | ShareUltimate Social Media Demographic Statistics
I have found some very interesting data showing the demographical statistics of several social media sites including: Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg,Reddit, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Ning. The below infograph shows demographic data across these sites measuring: user age, gender, income level, and education level. Each dot on the graph represents 1% One area i have noticed […]
Read More | ShareDigg version 4 coming soon
In April 2009, Kevin Rose – Founder of Digg.com spoke of a major update of the site in an attempt to get more users/publishers back on the site sharing their viral content and news stories. The problem with Digg is that only the top 100 stories or so got font page exposure and high traffic. […]
Read More | Share10% of Digg staff laid off
According to Digg company reps, 10% of their staff have just be laid off. A month ago, Jay Adelson who was CEO of Digg was also let go and replaced by company founder Kevin Rose. Rose said to employees: “This is one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make recently but we strongly believe […]
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