Posts tagged ‘Social Media’
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November 17th
8Twitter iPhone apps side by side
Excerpt: Twitter is now officially a part of my life. I find myself checking Twitter more often then my email, and that, I guess, forces me to be smart about how I use it. I've been using Twitterific and Twinkle side by side for a while, but both annoyed me at times. They look like this: I was missing …
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August 18th
19Digg submit buttons: a good idea?
Excerpt: Lately I've noticed a lot of people using the Digg button in Sociable to submit my posts to Digg. While I appreciate the gesture, the chance of any of my "normal" posts making it to the front page of Digg is minimal. To make it to the front page, you currently need 200+ diggs. Getting there with …
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March 28th
19Twittering with Twitterific
Excerpt: I've been hooked on Twitter for a while now, (I'm @jdevalk, follow me!) and I use Twitterific mostly when I'm at my Mac. Rae invited me and a couple of other people, through Twitter of course, to do a small review of the program we use, in my case, Twitterific (sorry, Mac only). So here we go: …
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January 31st
50Sociable WordPress plugin take-over
Excerpt: Several people have noticed, most notably Andy Beard, that the Sociable WordPress plugin is, next to be being a cool plugin, kind of a dead project. I had modified it quite a bit for Mel's blog, and my own later on, to include Sphinn, Facebook, Mixx, Google Bookmarks, Live and Twitter (the latter i…
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November 25th
2Get the number of popular digg posts for a URL
Excerpt: Sometimes, for instance when you're building a domain-info tool, you want to know the number of posts on that site that have made it to the Digg frontpage. After playing a bit, I came up with this pretty easy code: [code language="php"] function FrontpageDiggs($url) { $result['source'] = "http:…
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June 22nd
7MSN Reporter still buggy
Excerpt: MSN are apparently still unable to fix the bug I found, they seem to have taken down all Reporter sites for a while, yet the Dutch one is working for me right now, and the Belgian-French one is as well... Kind of weak though, don't you think? It's still possible to vote multiple times on an article …
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February 20th
6MSN Reporter...
Excerpt: SEW reports that MSN Reporter has gone live in Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway and states that it attracts a lot of visitors with some articles receiving up to 10,000 votes... While I can't deny that it drives quite some traffic, it's still broken as hell, and those of you who are creative mi…
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February 15th
30MSN launches Dutch Digg clone, but forgets spam prevention
Excerpt: Recently (I honestly don't know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter. You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage. Now the boys at MSN haven't really thought this through, as they store what storie…
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December 15th
3What I've learned in the SEM scholarship contest
Excerpt: Man I was cocky when I entered the scholarship contest. I though I'd beat everybody easily. The amounts of traffic that other articles were getting weren't very impressive, I thought, and I was sure to be able to get much more traffic. After all, I knew from experience what a few blog posts and news…
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November 22nd
0Spammers using social media
Excerpt: Spammers don't just linkspam Wikipedia, they use various methods to gather the links they need to get their sites on top of the organic search results. One of the new methods in the last months has been spamming the social bookmarking networks like Digg and del.icio.us. Niall Kennedy has an e…
