As we all know I'm no longer working on Netscape. So, these are my observations as someone who is no longer affiliated with the service. I've figured out exactly how you can get almost any quality story on the home page instantly.
There’s nothing unexpected or inherently bad about this — we just need to remember how quickly “social” can become “commercial” and managing the “community” can become managing the “marketplace.”Companies charge as much as $15,000 to g
Social media sites continue to change the way we interact with data but expect more activity and content shaping in the future from marketers targeting the social media space for a quick link injection.Opportunists will continue to jump into new networks
Social media sites and search engines need to stay on top of this new form of content creation, continually analyzing data and scrubbing out the dirt. Sites overrun with web spam quickly lose their utility and might be banned from search engines.
All of this points to a real problem in the social media world. The only yardsticks we use to measure the trustworthiness of a source are purely based on popularity - e.g. in-bound links, votes, etc. Now often popularity and quality are closely aligned. H
Of course, a few thousand rogue links on a site with over 100 million profiles is pretty insignificant, but these repeated attacks on MySpace users show that social networks are becoming a prime target for phishers and badware vendors. Although a few of t
Spike the Vote works on a point system. Each day I give you a mission with several stories to Digg. 20% of your mission involves digging stories submitted by users in this community, while 80% of of your mission is completely random. This is to eliminate
User/Submitter users are then given the chance to digg your submission and other stories for $0.50. After your submission has reached your desired number of diggs, you will be emailed a report.
