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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.

Ingenious Concept of The Unified Tribe
Online marketing mentor and copywriter, Nic Penrake, reviews Katie Freiling's The Unified Tribe and gives it 5 stars for concept. Excellent vehicle for multiplying web traffic.
High resolution mistakes
The other day, I burned 602.4 calories during my workout. Of course, I didn't really. That's just what the display said. No one can determine exactly (to the tenth of a calorie) what I burned, certainly not this machine.

What should Digg do?
I've been thinking a lot about Digg and the other social news services.
Wikipedia for Patents
John Funk, an entrepreneur (I’m an investor in John’s newest company – Evergreen IP) and friend has a innovative proposal up concerning changing the rules on the current patent system. I’ve been on both sides of the patent aisle with John – we like to joke that early on in our relationship John’s company sued one of my companies (and then my company sued John’s company back) for patent infringement (the companies settled several years later for a cross license and $1 – much to the delight of the lawyers who got all the bucks.) Fortunately we got past all that crap and have developed a nice friendship.
How Many Founders Does A Startup Need?
I love my NewsGator and Technorati key word search feeds - they help me find the most interesting things. A NewsGator key word search on “Ryan McIntyre” picked up this post by Chan Chaiyochlarb titled If you are going to launch a startup, how many friends would you need?
A Facebook and Google Reader App for Bloggers
A few weeks ago I wrote a post pointing out the growing usefulness of Facebook as a business tool. It isn’t that I am so enamored with the social network as I am optimistic that the new open platform will allow developers to create some very useful business applications.
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.
Do You Suffer from Occasional Contentapation?
You’ve got a blog, you’re getting into the education based, content rich, web presence thing, but sometimes you just can’t think of anything to say. Don’t worry, you’re not alone and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Millions of marketers have begun to complain about the symptoms commonly diagnosed as Contentapation.
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:
Getting The Most Out Of Your Online Efforts
Have you ever wondered how a spider spins their web? Does it even do anything in particular? Well let me explain something to you, you see a spider spins a web intricately and in a particular pattern. The web is virtually unseen and becomes a trap for flies. Similarly, you have to build a web online and learn how to direct your leads into your web (or sales funnel).

Social Media Small Business Crash Course: Part 1
The trouble is that although most business owners and entrepreneurs know that blogging and social media are essential marketing tools, that’s often where things stop. In this and upcoming articles, I’ll be doing a quick overview of points to consider when implementing a social media campaign. The first thing to keep in mind is that any social media campaign is greatly enhanced with the addition of a strategic, well targeted public relations effort. Appearing in the media gives you, your business, and/or your product and validation and credibility of being featured in the news, and gives you interesting topics to post, Tweet and share. Each site is different and has a unique focus and audience. For now let’s look at Twitter.

Six Ways to Increase Your Social Media Marketing Traffic Starting Yesterday
Every article you will find about using social media making to promote your product, business or opportunity successfully will always include the importance of traffic generation. This means getting lots of people to your door. Lots and lots of people, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Utilize Social Bookmarking And Create More Online Income
Are you a member of the best online business available today? Many people feel that they are, but they have a hard time getting their point across to potential business partners.
Internet Marketing Articles – Writing Tips
To be effective and successful with writing internet marketing articles it is essential to have a grasp of the various tips and suggestions that will best aid you.

Link baiting strategy
The quantity and quality of inbound links going to your site are some of the elements used by a search engine to decide where to put a website in its ranking for a specific keyword or key phrase. Link baiting can be considered as a part of link building. Its aim simply is to raise the number of relevant back links going to your site. It is considered to be a white hat SEO technique used nearly worldwide because it works so well.
How To Create Links For Your Internet Marketing
Link building is still counted as among the most effective approaches in driving web traffic. Many SEO web developers, programmers and IT specialist believe that the potential of links will still be recognized in internet marketing several years from now.
20 Ways to Advertise Your Website for Free
The internet was designed to be a free means of communication. As a result, there are a number of resources you can use to ‘advertise’ your business….for FREE! Listed below are some of the best ways to advertise your website online:
Twabulous Twitter Tools
Twitter related tools and plug-ins are multiplying by the day. When I say multiplying, I mean not one or two, but, hundreds of new tools. Below are a few Twitter tools to enhance your Tweeting experience, finding new tweets and more. There’s a reason why others are using these services and you should too.

Plaxo, Ryze, Naymz and BizNik - LinkedIn Younger Brothers
The following professional social networking sites are the “younger brothers” to LinkedIn. Don’t overlook these quality networking sites – sign up today and watch your business grow.

Social Bookmarking 101 – Building Your Social Network
Still overlooking social bookmarking because you're not sure what it is or how to use it? This easy to use strategy could be the key to improving your website ranking.
Use the Power of Social Media Promotion to Supercharge Your Traffic
A well-run social media campaign can drive huge amounts of traffic to a website and can determine whether a new idea, website or startup ultimately takes off or not. The top five social media sites, and five effective rules for social media optimization are covered in detail.
It's not a recession
It’s a transition from the industrial economy to the networked economy. This transition started 10 years ago with the dotcom boom. Over the last 10 years we have seen many industries collapse under scrutiny of the digital spotlight.
What is Social Media Marketing?
As a marketer, I find this topic overwhelms and confuses many business owners. Quite frankly, even in the marketing world - the jury is still out on the trends. But rest assured - social media is not going away. As our children grow up and take over corporate North America, the names of the tools may change, but the overall usage will only become more and more in use.
Viral Marketing - 15 Bulletproof Tactics to Attract Thousands of Customers Using Viral Marketing
Mention the word "virus" on the Internet and you'll most likely get people in a frenzy to update their antivirus software. But viral marketing is not dangerous to your computer or anyone else's for that matter. Quite the contrary, it is the kind of frenzy you should seek to create: about your products or services. Viral marketing is a form of marketing where news about your products, services, or company are spread by word-of-mouth, very much like a virus. Believe me, this is one bug you'd like everyone to catch. As word of what you're doing spreads like the flu, new customers naturally flock to your website to see what the hype is all about, thus boosting your chances of increasing profits.

The Power of Social Networking to FastTrack Your Success
Will Newman explains how to get recognized as an expert, nurture, promote or expand your success by harnessing the power of social networking.
Strategies For Utilizing Social Media Outlets
Today there are more and more people who are beginning to use social media outlets to help promote and market products. There are many ways that you can learn how to use these social media outlets to increase sales if you know what you are doing. In fact, many people are beginning to realize that this is a top marketing strategy.
An Introduction to Web 3.0
Web 3.0 is the new generation of the World Wide Web, through which Web 2.0 technology joins hands with the Semantic Web, making it possible for humans as well as machines to access and use the information stored in the Web. With Web 3.0, machines will be able to perform tasks requiring human intelligence, reducing our time and effort on the Internet dramatically.
Social Bookmarking Sites: Why Using Them to Build Backlinks
If you haven't been using social bookmarking sites to generate traffic you are missing out on a large consumer potential. As the net becomes more interactive and users gain more decisiveness on what is and isn't "quality content," building links using social bookmarking sites continue to pop up to serve virtually every known online niche.

Introduce Your Internet Based Business To Social Networking
The internet offers excellent opportunities to get to know people and build relationships far beyond what you could have done just a few years ago.

Online communities are useful for SEO
An online community is a term that can be used for a variety of social groups interacting via the Internet.

Joining the Social Networks
This past summer, I made a huge time investment joining and learning everything I could about various Web 2.0 communities. I have several clients that will really benefit from participation in these communities, and I can’t coach very well if I’ve never played the game, can I?

The 2nd dotcom Boom Social Media
Is social media the next dotcom boom?
Social Media Spam
How spam is quickly killing social media, affecting SEO professionals everywhere/
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.
Social Media Optimization and Marketing with Web 2.0
How to use Web2.0 sites for social media optimization and social media marketing.
Web 2.0 - What You Need to Know
Web 2.0..what is it and why should you care? If you're an entrepreneur or marketing professional, you can harness the power of web 2.0 to increase sales.
Social Media Sites Draw Customer Sales
What are you doing to leverage the Web? Social media sites are very popular with browsers. Are you taking advantage of this fact? The following article provides information on top social sites and tips on how to use them to help in attracting customer sales.

Other Digg Related Articles

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.
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.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking Websites in Search Engine Optimisation
Social Bookmarking is a process typically used by search engine optimisation professionals to gain quality backlinks and to enhance the visibility of a business. Some commonly used social bookmarking sites include Digg, StumbleUpon and De.Lico.us.
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