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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You’ve heard of social bookmarking, surely.  But if you are like many business owners just getting their feet wet blogging, you may not understand how simple, powerful and dangerous it can be for your business.
Now, I don’t mean to alarm you, social bookmarking can indeed be powerful, but that power brings moral responsibility.  Gaming the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]