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Topics related to social news sites, such as Digg, Reddit & Netscape. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or news sites news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 12:18 am
Posted By: mrmunchies 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
Second part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 2 focuses on the importance of content. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Posted By: glennhumplik 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
First part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 1 focuses on the importance of domains. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 9:51 am
Posted By: BCCStu 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: News Sites
With us today is the Daniel Honigman, part of the social media team that’s responsible for Colonel Tribune, a persona formed for the Chicago Tribune. Thanks for joining us. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2008 - 10:25 am
Posted By: davidtowers 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.goodwebpractices.com)
Category: News Sites
Have you ever wondered what the top Digg users avatars reveal about themselves?

We contacted a University lecture and prominent psychology blogger to analyse from a pyschological perspective what 20 digg avatars say about them. We also contacted read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 10:03 am
Posted By: tonyadam 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: News Sites
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and founder of Breadpig, recently appeared on Revision3’s Internet Superstar show, hosted by Martin Sargent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 6:44 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: News Sites
Hoping to cash in on the increased awareness and interest in financial and economic news, a group of search and social media marketers have launched Tip’d, a social community for the financial industry. If you’re familiar with digg, mixx, or sphinn, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2008 - 5:53 pm
Posted By: clickfire 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchandsocial.com)
Category: News Sites
Theorizes that Digg is on the decline after the widespread bannings. Recaps the aftermath. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: LtDraper 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humanorbot.com)
Category: News Sites
An interesting look at the rates of Digging of the Top Diggers. Given the hoopla about Diggers being banned lately, it would appear that Digg has only scratched the surface of their problems. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 3:50 pm
Posted By: clickfire 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: News Sites
Brian Wallace interviews Diggboss, the programmer who behind the script that got hundreds banned on Digg this week. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 5:18 pm
Posted By: onreact 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://royal.pingdom.com)
Category: News Sites
Social news traffic: Mixx is the fastest growing, Digg still the biggest, Sphinn is not bad at all for a niche community with targeted traffic. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: Guillaume 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
It just couldn't get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a couple weeks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 11:43 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomegacorp.com)
Category: News Sites
Want to be successful on Digg? Why not do exactly what the most successful Diggers are doing. Manish details 10 of the habits of successful Diggers.

Good read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: News Sites
"I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted link from a search engine optimization stand point. I did however always feel there was a lot of functionality read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 6:53 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: News Sites
My first impressions of SocialMedian.com, the news aggregation and voting site launched last week. I've also included a list of SEO/SEMs newsmakers who are already active in the system. Reserve your username, click the links and get set up. This one read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: Ryan.F 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://altsearchengines.com)
Category: News Sites
With oriango.com , you can perform searches, add and share web links, news, videos, sites, profiles, music, blogs, anything you need. Oriango is easy to use. It does not require registration, so you can advertise, search and share your contents free read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: News Sites
So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it wou read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 5:52 pm
Posted By: socialpyramid 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: News Sites
As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: News Sites
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: Gab 132 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 9:01 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: News Sites
On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and memes used in comments on a daily basis. Each section is broken down in detail to help you boost you read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 6:35 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: News Sites
Maki writes, "So what do you do? One method that works is just to use references to heighten content relevance and styling your articles in a catchy format that is easily accessible. What this template looks like will of course, depend on the specif read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 3:32 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: News Sites
Our findings show that, in general, lots of mainstream sites are very good at linking out and that there is a direct correlation between the number of links they give and the number of links they receive. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cracked.com)
Category: News Sites
Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word poem read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.manishpandey.com)
Category: News Sites
Manish Pandey talks about 5 crucial learnings he's had on the road to becoming a successful digger.

Good read! read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 9:56 pm
Posted By: steaprok 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg's millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one time. As w read more »
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