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The Quandry: Building Web Apps in Africa
One of the debates that rages amongst the developers, designers, and strategists across the African blogosphere is what types of web and mobile applications are being built in Africa. When we look at the available web applications and mobile offerings around the continent, we generally ask ourselves two questions:

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What should Digg do?
I've been thinking a lot about Digg and the other social news services.

Social Bookmarking Services: Leveraging Social Bookmarking Sites for Traffic and Back links
Social Bookmarking websites rely on the democratic nature of the web to structure information in such a way that is easily digestible and requires less effort than before. Such sites, including reddit.com, netscape.com and digg.com allow their massive user base to vote on web pages and as those web pages gain more votes, their position in the site increases. As a marketing tool, the power of such websites is threefold

Social Media: The Instant Brand Killer
Learn how social media sites such as Digg, Technorati, Slashdot, YouTube and MySpace, and community bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Reddit and Ma.gnolia are changing the face of internet marketing.

Have You Been Dugg?
Until recently, unless you owned a technology based website, it was unlikely you would have seen Digg as one of those emerging traffic sources.

Social Media Marketing: Viral Marketing Using Bookmarking
You have probably noticed all of the different bookmarking websites throughout the internet. These bookmarking sites such as Squidoo, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and others are a great way to market your website by posting SEO articles as well as links. Bookmarks are easy to place. You can do this yourself and also have others help you.

TIPS TO ATTAIN PROPER SERP'S FOR A WEBSITE AND BLOGSITE.
A blog site will only be cached if Google crawls it from another website.Say you have a blog and you have submitted it to a directory.If the moderator of the directory approves your submission and is put in the front page of the relevant category there is every chance of your blogpost being cached.What really matters here is the blog platform that you are using.I use blogger and to my knowledge ten blogposts of mine are cached.Submit your blogposts to technorati or social bookmarking sites like digg and delicious to get it cached faster.Once that is done try re-directing visitors to your blogsite by adding a link to your blog from a forum or article directory.

The Art of the Introduction
Just got back from Houston where I spoke for the Houston Technology Council. Houston has, by far, the funniest Web 2.0 babes in the world: Jenny Lawson of Good Mom/Bad Mom and The Bloggess; Laura Mayes of Digg for Chicks, aka Sk*rt; Erica O'Grady of Reinventing Erica; Tracey Lee Wallace of True Light Resources; and Carrie Pacini of OpMom. This is what Jenny was going to use to introduce me until she chickened out.

Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss Discuss Angel Investing and Naming Companies
In this video, Kevin Rose — founder of Digg and others — and I talk about how we invest in other companies as “angels” and how we choose names for companies. Topics include:

Digg-You Might Want to Digg a Little Deeper
Digg is a website that allows users to submit stories. Those stories then receive votes as they gain in popularity. With enough votes, a website can receive sudden bursts of traffic that can be staggeringly huge.

How Internet Marketing Has Changed - In Just Two Words
Let's face it: Internet marketing is confusing to most people. And it certainly isn't getting any easier with the growth of new Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Bing, YouTube, Foursquare, Blogger, iPhone Apps, and the like. To understand how Internet marketing has changed, you need to understand just two words: Download and upload.

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