If you weren’t participating in Digg, Kevin Rose announced today a reason why you should start. Digg is going to learn about your “Diggs” overtime, and begin to provide better intelligence about other Diggers that might be interesting to you. Digg calls this The Recommendation Engine, and it launches in Beta this week. [...]

You know that you need to promote your blog, and you know about blog directories and catalogs, but you’re looking for other ways to build links. Blog promotion isn’t limited to directory listings. You can use other avenues to build permanent links to your blog and to your site.
First, look at your business. What do [...]

Adding a business blog to your site can be an effective way to improve your search engine visibility, but simply having a blog - even a very active one - isn’t enough. Here are a few business blogging strategies to consider.
Business blogging is a planned activity. Personal blogs may leave you with the impression [...]

Slashdot.org (part of OSTG, Inc) has announced the release of a content aggregation system called Slashdot Firehose.

The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. Try tagging and voting on the entries below, and by using the ‘feedback’ menu by each entry. The hose [...]

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 [...]

The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.

Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]

There are many services out there that allow you to submit your posts or the posts of others and subsequently vote on the popularity of the posts. For example, Digg.com is one of the largest content contribution sites, and is very technology-centric in focus. However, Digg frowns on self-submission, which makes it hard to use [...]

While I think, as well as most online observers, that the Netscape.com change is a good one, gradual change is commonly regarded as a good thing when it comes to changing a longstanding web brand like Netscape.
If you haven’t heard the web design story everyone is buzzing about:
I’ve been tracking the
release of the [...]

Digg has expanded their listing of tech topics to include several that are specifically NOT tech related.

The site will now include separate sections for world and business
news, entertainment, science, and gaming, each of which will be divided
into a host of subsections for users to further categorize stories.
This move was expected from Digg, per their own [...]