Reddit Page /r/circlejerk Clones 4Chan’s Website Design

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After visiting Reddit today, it was pretty obvious my favorite SubReddit circlejerk was up to no good. After toying around all week with a funny upvote arrow which looked similar to male genitalia, we've not seen an invasion of 4chan into Reddit. This design gave me a good chuckle, at how well even the ads are placed. The heading section instead of having letters representing each board, they've got your SubReddit's listed in the same order. There's even an upload form to create a new thread, … [Read more...]

Digzign – New Social News for Designers that Dig

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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...]

Mixx Partners with Marketfish for New Ad Platform

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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...]

Why Digg’s New Ad System is Gaining Popularity

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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...]

The Newest Trending Social News Sharing Community Humsurfer

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It's difficult these days to track down the best social news sharing communities. There are the classics such as Digg and Reddit, and also smaller niche communities containing topics like design and programming. Humsurfer is a new community, still running in Beta but holding strong with a PR3 and Alexa Ranking of 1,600. The Humsurfer community is a social news and media sharing community for Indians, very similar to what IndianPad promotes. But with a growing userbase and such an inviting … [Read more...]

New Digg-Clone Thuhm Updates Design and Added Features

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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...]

Utilizing DesignMoo for Social Media Traffic to your Design Blog

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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...]