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The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet

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Social Media Cheat Sheet
The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet

When was the last time you used a cheat sheet? I still remember the days in university when professors allowed cheat sheets during exams. We were ecstatic, only to realize that the problems in the exam were practically unsolvable if you only relied on the cheat sheet.

When it comes to the “real world” of business, there is also such a thing as a cheat sheet. With all the different developments in business and technology, it is only to be expected. The guys at Flowtown have come up with an infographic that can serve as a quick guide for small business owners when it comes to social media. [Read more…] about The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet

Digg Supports Twitter @Anywhere and Other OpenID Standards

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In the “socially-induced” tech world that we are living in, the old adage that “no man is an island” doesn’t hold true anymore. No matter how geek and anti-social you are, now is the right time foresake all habits, get out into the open, connect and socialize. Even for the pioneers of web 2.0 applications and tools this is now an SOP. If you want to stay cool and relevant to the social world – open up to other online sites even if they use to be your rival.

Such is the case with Digg.  Digg is struggling to stay relevant. After all, it used to be one of the pillars of the web 2.0 phenomenon. It won’t definitely not yield to competition easily. So the Digg folks are rolling out a couple of integration features with popular online services.

First, Digg will definitely support Twitter @anywhere framework which was just announced a couple of days ago. It’s Facebook Connect integration was pretty successful, giving Digg increased in user engagement and a registration increase of around 20-30%.

And after surveying around 14 thousand of its users, Digg is now ready to roll out some more integration with other third party site based on survey responses. So, aside from Facebook Connect, soon you will be able to log in to Digg using your Google, Yahoo, and Twitter accounts. These three plus Facebook are the ones identified by Digg users which they want to use when logging in to Digg.

In addition, Digg will continue to support OpenID accounts. So if a third party site is supporting OpenID accounts, you can use them also for logging in to Digg.

Big Changes Are About to Happen with Digg

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Do you still use Digg for bookmarking and sharing these bookmarks? Do you still maintain a Digg page? If you do, well expect to see some big changes in Digg in the coming weeks. These changes were announced by Digg CEO Jay Adelson during the Digg’s annual SXSW party.  Some of the changes that you should expect include – streamlined submission process, new personalized homepage, unlimited amount of topic pages, new commenting system and better curation tools.

Read Write Web got the full details of these changes. You may check out their coverage or read the summary below.

Personalized homepage – The new Digg personalized homepage will be populated by popular stories among your friends in relation to the topic that interest you.  This will become your default Digg homepage and not the generic Digg main page anymore. So, once this new feature kicks in, it is imperative that you sign in with Digg.

De-emphasizing the Power of Submitters – The new Digg will now put more premium on who votes for stories rather than who submit them. It will also put more emphasis on third-party services like Twitter and Facebook by allowing auto-submission of stories from these services.

More Twitter and Third-Party Integration – The Digg folks finally realized that to stay relevant in this “social integrated” market, they have to establish a relationship with other sites. So, more integration with Twitter as well as other social sites will be established in the coming weeks.

A Whole New Platform – Digg has stripped down its old infrastructure and completely rebuild a new platform. Possible directions will be more advertising and monetization option for Digg traffic, and the old Digg effect will no longer apply.

All these changes will be rolled out in the coming weeks. Digg is also testing beta testers and you can sign up here.

Digg Rolls Out its Cool DiggBar Tool

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Digg.com is rolling out it’s own toolbar called DiggBar which I could simply describe as a uber cool web tool. Whereas other site toolbars requires you to install a plug-in or script on your browser and then let it pop out by activating it from your browser’s Toolbar Menu before you can start using it, the DiggBar offers a faster way. [Read more…] about Digg Rolls Out its Cool DiggBar Tool

New Features Anticipated at Digg

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I came across this article at Read Write Web on the new features that are anticipated to hit the major social bookmarking site – Digg.

Here’s a summary of the features :

  • Groups : Feature to create and joins groups around topics.
  • Customized alerts : Rejig of the system to receive e-mail alerts with lot more options.
  • New achievements feature to showcase and reward top diggers
  • A NSFW (Not Safe For Work) Filter on the content.
  • Recommendation Engine : A killer feature that discovers content for users based on their digg behavior.
  • Customization of Digg to receive and view user selected content
  • Remote Digg: Ability to bring the Digg systems to entities beyond the web such as hotels, restaurants etc.

These new features indicates the kind of transformation taking place in the online social bookmarking space. The model of search engine related data retrieval is slowly but steadily turning out to be a platform for research and extended information. A social bookmarking platform fills in several niches that a search engine cannot. It gets users data that he may be interested in. It can fetch user data that has been found to be more relevant in the field that the user is interested in.

Social bookmarking is bringing to fruition the kind of goals that engines like Mahalo and Cha-cha have set out to achieve. While these engines are human powered, they are essentially based on the crawl-the-web-rank-the-pages paradigm. Social bookmarking seems to fit the relevancy requirement a lot more better. Let the users get the data that they feel is important and then apply algorithms on this refined set of data to achieve more personalization and relevance.