latimesblogs.latimes.com - 3/6/2009
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USocial is gaming popular social bookmarking sites, including Digg. Credit: uSocial
Among Digg's and StumbleUpon's tens of millions of users, the social bookmarking sites have successfully dealt with numerous troublemakers who try to "game" the voting systems. But one company may ...
mashable.com - 3/5/2009
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mashable.com —
Go on, Tweet this post. Or share it
on FriendFeed . Or post about it on Blogger
, Movable Type , TypePad or WordPress blogs. Or link to it from a Flickr comment. Or comment on the story on Digg . Or add a comment linking to this post from YouTube , ...
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Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments
techcrunch.com - 3/13/2009
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techcrunch.com —
StumbleUpon is preparing to launch a shortURL service
(a web service that provides short aliases for redirection
of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly ) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr . Founder Garret Camp announced the new service on ...
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StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service
valleywag.com - 3/10/2009
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valleywag.com —
Burn, baby, burn! That's the coded message in
Digg CEO Jay Adelson 's blog post about a
"major expansion effort." The website, whose users rate and discuss news headlines, is hiring for 19 open positions, with more to come, as Digg expands ...
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Burn Rate: Digg announces major increase in spending
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The US Marines And The Mormons Are Buying Votes On Digg?
Techdirt —
The LA Times has a short story on one of a bunch of companies that claims to be able to let you buy votes on Digg (as well as some other sites, but Digg is apparently the main attraction). There have been a bunch of such companies over the years, but what caught my eye was the claim in the article that among the customers of this particular company were the US Marines, the Mormon Church and the Korean Dept. of Tourism. Perhaps I don't follow the Digg spamming world that closely, but I'd mainly assumed that it was focused on random publications or no-name ...
Would Jesus Game Digg?
WebProNews Feed —
... The United States Marines, the Mormon Church, and the Korean Department of Tourism are all paying Australian-based uSocial to game Digg.com for them, according to a blog post at the Los Angeles Times. ...
USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
Between the Lines —
... One of the most difficult things to manage about the millions of users on social bookmarking sites Digg, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us is the minority of users who try to “game” voting systems to propel their chosen content to the top of the popularity lists. One company has decided to take that manipulation to the next level. The L.A. Times reports that ...
Facebook Democratized Sharing, Twitter Simplified It
All Facebook —
... The only problem with the existing model is that it can be gamed (take a look at this Los Angeles Times article for more). Contrast that with Facebook in which quality information naturally spreads throughout the social graph. Over the past month I’ve received at least 150,000 visitors from Facebook alone and none of that traffic was under my control. All I did was write an article that a large number of Facebook users were interested in. ...
Would Jesus Game Digg?
WebProNews Feed —
... The United States Marines, the Mormon Church, and the Korean Department of Tourism are all paying Australian-based uSocial to game Digg.com for them, according to a blog post at the Los Angeles Times. ...
uSocial, “The World’s Most Innovative Advertising” Company now offering paid service to get users new Twitter Followers
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One experiment Digg is working on, says one source close to the company, is a self service advertising product that will be somewhat similar to Google ...
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