Tag: REDDIT

People like pictures. Nothing new there. But people are also the backbone of social news sites like Digg and Reddit. And it's becoming increasingly clear that neither site is very visual. The front pages of both sites are filled with text links -- even if those links point to pictures. Users have resorted to writing (PIC) next to headlines to let you know what lies beneath the link. Yesterday ...

Some of the most popular links on Digg, Reddit, and other social news sites are funny or interesting pictures. But you have to read through a lot of text to find them. Niether Digg nor Reddit have tools to display photo or video thumbnails. They're sort of the Craigslists of social media. Reddit Media is an interesting take on what Reddit would look like with image thumbnails. The site is ...

Once upon a time, before Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and the relaunched Netscape, there was Slashdot. The original social news site for geeks allowed users to submit and share interesting articles with their peers back when Web 2.0 wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye. While there's still an active community of Slashdot readers/commentors/submittors, the site's not resting on its laurels. This ...

Click To Play Fichey is a new web discovery service. But unlike digg, reddit, Fichey doesn't let you submit and share web sites with other users. Rather, it lets you find popular stories from digg, reddit, StumbleUpon and other sites. What Fichey provides is a simple Flash-based tool for flipping through web pages. You won't actually be taken to those pages, you remain on Fichey's ...

Gen Y, a term sometimes used for those 20-35 years old, are old enough to be (some of) our kids but more importantly make up our next generation of clients. This generation, defined more by popular culture than by age, is an Internet-hungry and online-casual bunch. Currently, there are about 76 million of them in the U.S., not a bad market slice. They communicated first via Instant Message and ...

Say you run across a really cool webpage that you want to share with all your friends and a few thousand other people? You might submit it to Digg, Reddit, and maybe even another service or two before you run out of steam and enthusiasm. Social Poster makes it easy to submit links to 34 different sites with just a few clicks. You can grab Firefox toolbar button by going to Social Poster's main ...

When it comes to web 2.0 startups, it may be that there really might be no such thing as bad press. Last month Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors, a Reddit-like site that lets users submit rumors, which any user can vote on. The most popular rumors are pushed to the top. When we first told you about Truemors, we pointed out that it was severely lacking in quality control, and most of the rumors on the ...

It hasn't been a good weekend for social ranking sites. Security vulnerabilities were uncovered at Digg-competitor Reddit and Pligg, a site that lets you create your own Digg clone. The security problems at each site were unrelated and have been patched. Basically, the problem at Reddit was that the site let users upload malicious code in their comments that could grant access to your account ...

Guy Kawasaki's new startup, Truemors is live. But it's also kind of dead. The website lets users email, text, or call in a rumor, and visitors to the site can vote the rumors up or down. The interface is pretty similar to Condé Nast's Reddit. But instead of news, users are voting on rumors in business, entertainment, politics, and news categories. But here's the problem. There's no ...

Get badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good: Digg This Story Sphere It Add to Technorati Favorites View Blog Reactions (via Technorati) Add to del.icio.us Add to Furl Add to Netscape Add to Yahoo! Myweb Add to Google Bookmarks ...

If you've ever had the good fortune of having one of your websites or blog posts dugg to the point of showing up on digg's homepage, you've enjoyed a huge traffic boost to your site. This is wonderful for web publishers, and I'm not going to lie and say that we don't care about it here at Download Squad; in fact, since the success of a given post is measured in large part by the traffic it drives ...

Everyone is aquiring everyone on this spooky Halloween. Google bought JotSpot, now Condé Nast, the owners of Wired magazine, have bought Reddit. Similiar to Digg, Reddit is a website that lists what the popular news is online, by users voting, and submitting articles. Michael Arrington scooped the news of the deal, and that Reddit employees will be packing up and moving from Boston to the ...

Are you a member of Digg, Netscape, Reddit, and del.icio.us? Are you looking to promote your site, or just keep all of your bookmarks spread out? Enger DiggScapeRedlicious. It's a bookmarklet (or favelet, if you prefer) that helps you submit a site to all four of the above social bookmark/news sites simultaneously. Drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and thereafter clicking on it will open each of ...

Sociable is a plugin for Wordpress that adds cute link icons to each of your blog posts that users can click on to quickly add the post to their favorite social bookmark service like del.icio.us or news sites like Digg, Newsvine, or Fark. The plugin can be configured to show icons for any of the 24 (and counting) supported services, and installing it is, as with most Wordpress plugins, a snap. ...