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Tips for Gaming Front Page Traffic on Delicious

One of my personal favorite social bookmarking networks is Delicious. The process of signup is very simple. If you’ve already got a Yahoo account then you don’t even need to change anything! Since Yahoo! purchased the company in 2005 it’s seen a dramatic increase from the number of users.

It’s important to understand just how Delicious works. Trending bookmarks are prominently displayed on the front page of the site. These are links which have gained a large amount of saves in the past few hours, generally racking up 30+.

However the most popular tab is where a lot of traffic can be generated. Either way the process is the same – create a few Delicious accounts and prepare to get working! With 100 accounts and 200+ working proxies it’ll be a no-brainer.

To start I recommend downloading Elite Proxy Switcher and installing either Lite or Pro. The software is amazing at keeping records of your working and failed proxies, along with their level in security (Elite through Transparent). Elite proxies will ultimately hide your IP from Delicious, so they are the best kind to have saved.

Building a Delicious Presence

After this you may want to set aside a few hours for creating accounts. The quickest solution is to signup for a new Yahoo! Mail account, then directly connect into Delicious and create your unique username. From here Yahoo! will automatically verify your account and allow you to start saving links.

Delicious Personal Bookmarking

After passing the 50 or 60 mark you should notice some more people saving your link. This will become especially apparent if your content is well-liked or offers an interesting perspective. It’s best to let a few hours sit before going to town in the network. Otherwise Delicious admin’s may get wise to your plan and ban all of your accounts! Not a good situation to be in.

The best part of this plan is how seemingly foolproof the setup becomes. Once you’ve created 100+ accounts the odds of losing them are slim to none. You can almost completely reduce the risk by using L1 Elite Proxy servers when connecting into the site and saving your bookmarks.

If you’re looking to start building your collection may I suggest freeproxylists.com? They update daily and their lists are very consistent. Alternatively Black Hat Team has a fantastic proxies forum which bolsters daily contributions.

The Resting Changes Post-Launch for Digg v4

Digg v4 was launched during 2010 and did not garner very positive reviews. In fact, many users migrated to the more popular network Reddit where news can flow much more freely. Where did Digg go wrong?

I would argue Kevin Rose lost faith in the company. After launching at the turn of the millennium Digg was king online. It offered a fantastic connections system, simple categories and a very popular front page. Most articles would reach upwards of 2000 or more diggs on any given day.

The new release doesn’t even support the home page much at all. Instead it’s been replaced with My News which poorly reflects your friends’ diggs and submissions. Top stories on Digg today don’t generally pass over 400 votes. Comments have also degraded in value since the days of classic Digg.

With news now coming in that Kevin Rose is stepping down from the company, the resolution becomes crystal clear. Digg has failed not because of poor design or concept, but lack of true leadership. Diggnation was a great media outlet for popular news stories and in its heyday truly gathered a crowd.

With top stories not holding much value anymore I stopped watching years ago, along with many other Digg patriots. As the site continually drops in traffic Digg’s new CEO Matt Williams is facing a tough crisis. It will be difficult to bring the social news community back from where it’s already fallen.

Digg v3 screen

Some steps in the right direction would be moving the design back towards classic Digg! I can’t think of a user who was opposed to how Digg was run. The community was fighting against power diggers, but they were really the ones keeping great news stories flowing in the first place. Unfortunately as it may be, Digg’s ship is sinking and it appears even their founder doesn’t care.

Twitterrific Rocks the iPhone App Market with Dynamic RT Functionality

As Twitter is growing in popularity each and every month, more people are looking to the mobile web for entertainment. Whether it be waiting online at the bank or supermarket, or even relaxing at a relatives house with some time to kill, mobile phones are making it easier for us to connect with the entire web.

With iPhone sales launching through the roof, we can only see how mobile Twitter clients will become more and more useful. As Twitter has officially purchased Tweetie to be their “official” application, it’s made it difficult to developers to break into the market. However I just downloaded Twitterrific the other day, and I’m blown away by such enhanced functionality.

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MySpace Updates User Profile Designs and UI Elements

The former reigning king of social networking land MySpace is rolling out new user profile designs. The update came from Sean Percival, Myspace’s VP of Online Marketing. In a short tweet Sean linked to his online profile, describing it as a “Clean new profile”.

The design updates do look amazing, and you can’t help but realize these are long overdue. MySpace has always looked like a 10 year old’s playground when it comes to profile pages frontend and backend. Luckily it appears as though the company has drawn upon many inspirations similar to Facebook for user interface panels.

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Exclusive Interview with Relations Manager of DesignFloat

At this point most web designers & developers ingrained in the field know about DesignFloat. It’s a very popular social news submission service where blog authors or content readers can submit their favorite or most interesting news articles, and the published stories with the most votes hit the front page. It has spurred many similar sites, but DesignFloat has always reigned king.

I recently had a fantastic interview with the site’s Relations Manager Mortimer. He revealed some interesting tidbits about DesignFloat, along with their future plans for market competition and how to innovate the social network.

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New Web Design/Development Community Forrst Blows up Across the Web

Since the major success of Dribbble designers and developers have been looking for such amazing communities to share resources. Because of this, Forrst.com isn’t really a totally new idea in and of itself. However the implementation and UI features are so unique, the community has exploded over the past few months since launch.

Forrst allows you to register an account and run your own profile, similar to a Twitter or Foursquare profile. You can follow other designers/developers in the community to receive their updates on your homepage dashboard.. also in real-time! You can choose to share graphics or mockup designs, called “snaps”, with all of your followers in the community. You can also share snippits of code and even as questions directly to the Forrst community!

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Google Releases Exclusive Real-Time Stats Dashboard for Blogger

An update today on the official Blogger blog has introduced us to Google’s latest invention: Blogger Stats. An inline analytics tool working in real-time on all blogs powered by Blogger. You can see current trending searches, visitors and total times per page, along with so many other features.

You can view historically over the past weeks/months, or check your blog posts day-by-day to see which one’s are gaining the most momentum. Google seems to be utilizing a lot of tools from their popular Analytics software, however updated in real-time streamlined directly to your Blogger dashboard!

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