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Should Facebook Acquire FriendFeed, Twitter and/or Digg?
Over the last few years – in *numerous* settings – I have heard different variations of the following: “Why should we build it internally when we can let it be proven elsewhere… and either build or...
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Why iGoogle is About to Be Game Changing – For Google and for Us
A couple months ago, I had the following email exchange with one of the sharpest, big internet-thinkers I know. I thought very little of the discussion until the past few days. Speaking about iGoogle:...
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Comparing Yahoo Buzz and Digg After Hitting Buzz’s Homepage
In March, I wrote that Yahoo Buzz could pose a threat to Digg because of their ability to drive more traffic – and I assumed that Digg’s product would be markedly better. Now four days after Yahoo Buzz...
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Introducing TechNews (http://news.ryanspoon.com)
Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out! About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of...
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Tweetmeme’s Meteoric Rise Reveals Twitter’s Search Issue
Techmeme has become one my primary navigational sources for daily reading / news (others include email, Google RSS, Facebook, NYTimes, TechCrunch, etc). Twitter isn’t yet there because it is simply...
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Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding
In less than a week, Youtube’s hit video “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has been viewed over seven million times (and nearly 1.5m times in the last 24 hours). So what does that look like on the real-time...
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Dogpatch Labs Video Tour on VentureBeat
Earlier this week, Dogpatch Labs was featured on VentureBeat. Assistant Editor Anthony Ha visited Dogpatch Labs San Francisco, met several of the entrepreneurs / teams, and sat down for an short tour...
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Email notifications & engagement from SlideShare and Digg
Last week I wrote about email as a vehicle to drive user engagement. Here is another good example from SlideShare. Earlier this week I posted a presentation on paid search best practices from a recent...
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Twitter Launches Tweet Button; Publishers to Allocate Pixel Real Estate
Twitter has officially launched their Tweet Button – a natural move which will place them beside Facebook’s like buttons… and across millions of pages on the web (soon to be on this blog!). The...
View ArticleDigg, Content Publishing, Content Consumption and Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown
Much has already been written about Digg – and two of the best pieces currently sit atop Techmeme. MG’s “Requiem for a Digg” and Om’s “In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won.” I encourage you to...
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