Digg Hostile Takeover
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0
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Digg This! – A Solution to the Black Market of Paid Diggs
Thursday, 05 April 2007
by Paul O'Brien
I’m a capitalist and believe that economies create markets based on demand. With the proliferation of advertisers willing to pay for placement in social bookmarking and networking environments, it is no surprise that a black market has developed to support the demand for paid social media optimization. New to the space is Subvert and Profit
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0
Build and Support a Community of Evangelists
Friday, 30 March 2007
by Paul O'Brien
“Bad behavior in the blogosphere” That’s the headline from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle referencing the recent threats against Kathy Sierra, a popular blogger (Creating Passionate Users) and author who stresses the importance of web design. I’m not going to make news of her terrible experience as, rather than an article worth repeating, it was that
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Natural Search / SEO, Social Media
Where are your SMO priorities?
Monday, 05 March 2007
by Paul O'Brien
I admit it. Early in my blog I made the claim that Stumble Upon was worthy of your attention! So okay, I still believe that but new data from AddThis, a social bookmarking tool, reveals that Google Bookmarks is more popular than I had believed. Social bookmarking is a form of Social Media Optimization. In
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0
Get paid to Digg
Monday, 02 October 2006
by Paul O'Brien
Some folks may not like it but Usersubmitter.com has gone the way of PayPerPost.com and is paying users to enhance the community. Earn $.50 for stories you Digg or pay $20 plus $1 per Digg to get some juice for your own content.As for me, I’m on the fence, sure its questionable but no different
- Published in Fun, Social Media