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Digzign – New Social News for Designers that Dig

April 5, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Social news has sprung along the web, and with the popularity of web design and graphics blogs sharing links has become commonplace. With popular sites such as DesignFloat and DesignBump, it's hard to imagine much else. However I have recently found a great-looking Digg clone website at http://digzign.com/. With frontpage stories ranging from multiple topics of News, Videos, Images and Audio, it allows users a large range of submissions. Many of the categories on the site are design-specific … [Read more...]

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Twitter Releases Sleek, Clean Homepage Redesign

March 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Although this has been covered by many media blogs, Twitter has indeed released a new home page! I have to say, I'm a big fan of the new design and it definitely allows for a better user experience when first arriving at the site. Shifting the page design from a small centralized block to utilizng the entire page was a smart move in Twitter's part, which allows for a scrolling Ajax-styled news feed directly in the center of the page. Scrolling through top Twitter users latest tweets, this is … [Read more...]

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Mixx Partners with Marketfish for New Ad Platform

March 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
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With the popularity of social news, there have been many launches and premieres of new apps on the scene. One of the most popular and rising clone site's is Mixx.com. Very similar to Digg, Mixx allows users to vote up the hottest articles and news based on categories ranging from world news, technology, science, and gaming. In a recent Mixx blog post, there is some discussion about Mixx partnering with advertising agency Marketfish. The pair are planning on working to send out e-mails … [Read more...]

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Why Digg’s New Ad System is Gaining Popularity

March 3, 2010 By 5 Comments
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Digg has always been an extremely innovative company. Launching into the social news bit in 2004, the site has grown immensely popular with monthly pageviews in the tens of millions. Digg's popularity has allowed for a counter-culture of internet users to become Diggers, voting on the best stories to hit the front page and sent traffic spikes to interesting and useful blogs. Recently Digg has launched a new ad system that is surely turning heads. The ads are inline with both stories and page … [Read more...]

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New Digg-Clone Thuhm Updates Design and Added Features

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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I had written a Review for Thuhm a while back, and have to say I still love the app. It's a brand new social news website for sharing all kinds of news, and it combines the best features of Reddit and Digg together. Although still just breaking off the ground, Thuhm has a lot to offer it's readers. Recently there had been a post mentioning new updates on the site, including a new front page design and the addition of categories. … [Read more...]

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Utilizing DesignMoo for Social Media Traffic to your Design Blog

February 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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For all of you running a design blog out there, DesignMoo is a site you're going to want to bookmark. As I'm sure we all know of Digg's popularity, this has caused many smaller sites to spawn offspring and grow into micro-niche Digg sites. DesignMoo is one of these style of sites for graphic and web design, and can bring in a lot of traffic to your blog. Though it doesn't bring in as much traffic as Digg, it is still a very powerful social media source where you can draw traffic to your blog. … [Read more...]

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Why Digg.com is heading for a Major Pitfall

February 8, 2010 By 27 Comments
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I remember a time when Digg used to roam wild in the Social News kingdom. It was the force to be reckoned with when it came to internet marketing - everybody needed to hit the front page to gain some traffic to their site. I'm sure tons of blogs have built their popularity off of Digg's massive traffic influx, but there are many signs pointing towards this site closing the lid. Digg used to be a very popular website - I would frequent the site constantly to check out the greatest news, what … [Read more...]

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