Social news | Inside the Webb

Digg was the first social news site to really skyrocket into popularity, gaining millions of pageviews a day to the site. No doubt, there would be similar sites in separate niches on the web. The first of these niche sites in the web design category was Design Float, which has had many issues with databases and keeping the site up and running properly. Therefore, a new competitor has stepped up to the plate: DesignBump.

DesignBump promotes the most popular articles about web, graphic, and print design from all across the internet. Members of the Design Bump community vote up the best articles, and the most popular ones will hit the front page. I got an interview with the site’s creator John Campbell to get the inside scoop on this hot new social media/news clone for designers. Continue reading →

Article bookmarking and submission sites have become a commodity on the web today. There have been only a few veterans that have been around long before it was “cool” to have a site in the social news niche, and Drew Curtis’ Fark.com is one of them. Fark is social news with a twist: comedy. A great site to find tons of very interesting, funny, and just plain entertaining articles, Fark’s founder Drew Curtis was willing to sit down and answer a few questions for us regarding Fark.com. So if you’re a big fan of the site and want to learn a bit more about it’s creator, or if you’ve never heard of the site but are interested in social media marketing, please read on! Continue reading →