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Twitter Slaps SEOs With Nofollow On All Links
26th August 2009
A year ago, Twitter was known to only a handful of people who were all search and social media marketing enthusiasts. These search and social media professionals saw the potential in Twitter and promoted it on their blogs, in their emails and in a lot of their communications. Twitter has repaid the favour by treating all users as spammers and slapped rel=”nofollow” attributes onto all external links. More »
Google Search Gets A Shot Of Caffeine
13th August 2009
When Microsoft Launches a new search engine, could Google be far behind? Of course not! Hot on the heels of BingTweets, Google announced on the Webmaster Central Blog that they will soon launch a new and upgraded version of their search engine. More »
Digg Ads Begin This Week
10th August 2009
Digg had announced some time ago, that they would begin showing ads on their site shortly. They announced last week that they are now ready to start the beta version of Digg Ads this week. More »
Digg Under Fire For Improper URL Direction
3rd August 2009
Earlier in the year, Digg introduced the Digg Bar and Digg Short URLs. These shortened URLs directed users to the Digg landing page, only if they were logged in to Digg. More »
Twitter’s New Homepage
31st July 2009
Twitter has been trying to expand their user base, and as a positive step in that direction, they have changed their homepage. More »
Did Twitter Really Destroy Bruno?
16th July 2009
The success or failure of a movie is traditionally judged by its box office collections over the very first weekend of its release. However in the case of the movie Bruno, some believe its success is determined by the nature of tweets about the movie. More »
Microsoft Trumps Google Again With BingTweets
15th July 2009
Microsoft is really sticking to the promise they made of providing further innovations to their new decision engine, Bing. Following closely on the heels of the integration of Bing into Hotmail, they have now presented another novel service called BingTweets. More »
How Will Digg Replace Shouts?
22nd June 2009
Recently, when Digg announced the closure of Shouts, in favour of sharing, they also said they would be introducing a new communication system, which would not be subject to the same problems as Shouts. More »
Will Google Start A Micro-Blogging Search Engine?
15th June 2009
The ever growing popularity of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, and the large number of microblogs being constantly posted on it, have made it extremely difficult for users to find exactly what they are looking for. More »
Users To Decide Digg Ad Rates
8th June 2009
Digg recently announced plans to set up a new advertising platform. This advertising platform will be different from ad offerings on other sites, as it will indirectly allow users to decide the price Digg will charge their advertisers for each ad. More »
Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content
12th May 2009
Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. More »
How Loyal Are Twitter Users?
6th May 2009
It is a well known fact that Twitter has grown at an explosive rate lately – their unique audience was up 100% in March – however, the site does not seem to be very addictive to its new users. More »
Microsoft Vine Debuts
29th April 2009
Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. More »
The Race For One Million Twitter Followers
17th April 2009
Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds. Its following grew by an unbelievable 75% from February to March this year, with site visits doubling. The site has its celebrity users to thank for this sudden growth spurt. More »
Digg Bar Launched And Exploited
8th April 2009
Last month we had reported on a potential Digg toolbar that would compete with StumbleUpon.
Digg has now launched a new product called the ‘DiggBar’, which appears at the top of the browser whenever users click on any story on Digg. The DiggBar is portable to any website, making social news sharing much easier, but ways to exploit it are already cropping up. More »
Potential Twitter Revenue Model
2nd April 2009
Twitter has gained immense popularity in the last year, and seems to have finally decided to try and generate some revenue. The popular micro-blogging service has publicly acknowledged the possibilities of two potential revenue generation models. More »
Google Jaiku Open Sourced To Combat Twitter
19th March 2009
For almost a year now, Google has been in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. The process is now complete, and the new JaikuEngine has been launched on Google Code, as an open source project that they hope will turn into a Twitter competitor. More »
Where Do People Go From Twitter?
18th March 2009
It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. More »
Digg Takes On StumbleUpon With New Toolbar
5th March 2009
Social news site Digg.com is beta testing a toolbar, similar to the one from StumbleUpon, to provide the Digg experience to users who move from Digg to any of its outbound links. More »
Is Digg Up To Something?
22nd December 2008
According to reports from Business Week, the social news site Digg is not doing too well financially. The results of the first three quarters of 2008 show an income of $6.4 million, while the losses are pegged at $4 million. A similar story ran last year, pegging Digg’s income at $4.8 million and losses at $2.8 million. More »
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