Posts Tagged ‘delicious’

Blog Promotion with Delicious, Part II

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

We started talking about blog promotion using Delicious yesterday. We talked about the value of social bookmarking sites and their presence in your strategy. They happen to be a great place to do a little market research. See who is saving what and the words they are using. And though Delicious may not be the [...]

Content Promotion: Social Search

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

No business can deny the power of good Search Engine Optomization. Especially when in relation to Google. However, all marketers know how frustrating it is to get new information into Google quickly.
This ongoing frustration with disseminating news - and, for readers, finding it - has led to the rise of social search.
Divya Uttam [...]

Why Del.icio.us?

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

While I am an avid user of Del.icio.us, of course less than the prolific Rubel, I often have a difficult time explaining to small and large businesses why they should be looking at social networking, and social tagging particularly.
I’ve told you before how I frequently watch Digg for breaking news (and I’ve made some great [...]

Is Yahoo! Buying Digg?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

The rumors are that Yahoo!, consistently one of the top 3 sites on Alexa and an online powerhouse, is considering buying Digg, a very popular tech-focused social bookmarking site.
Considering that Yahoo! has recently purchased Del.icio.us, Flickr, OddPost, and other ‘happening’ social sites, it only makes sense to add Digg to the foray. 

Yahoo! and Del.icio.us

Monday, December 12th, 2005

The social aspects of web 2.0 are exciting.  And as the original social bookmarking and tagging website, del.icio.us draws a considerable user base (300K).  On Friday, Yahoo! bought del.icio.us for an estimated $20 million.
Launched in 2003 by Joshua Schachter, Del.icio.us uses a non-hierarchical keyword grouping system whereby users "tag" each of their Web bookmarks [...]

New Browser Integrates RSS and Social Networking

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Don’t be surprised if Flock, the newest addition to the browser market, begins to garner much attention in the coming days.  Flock, an offshoot of Firefox, offers the user a rich, social experience, integrating the sites Flickr and  Del.icio.us directly into the menu bar.  Most exciting, though, is the way Flock goes about drawing attention [...]