Reddit Turns to Its Users for Spam Filtration

Social bookmarking site, Reddit announced that it would be calling upon its users to act as quality control for flagging spam submissions. This seems like a no-brainer as who knows a site better than its users? Not many. After several attempts at combating spam, including the addition of moderators, Reddit has decided to call upon [...]

Sponsored Links Coming to Reddit

Social bookmarking site, Reddit announced its plans on a private beta, which will test out ads. The new beta will allow anyone to purchase a sponsored link on Reddit’s homepage, not necessarily just advertisers. Reddit sees a click-through rate between two and ten percent on ads running on the homepage. How will it work monetarily? [...]

Digg Looks to Monetize Clicks

Digg has been busy in the last few months trying to incorporate ads into its homepage. In addition to its Sponsored Digg Ads, Digg is currently testing a new type of ad that matches articles both old and new to their related ads. According to TechCrunch, “[n]ot only [do the ads] link back to the [...]

Delicious Adds New Features

Social bookmarking site, Delicious has announced its addition of several features to its site. Delicious’ updates come with emphasis on real-time search, analytics and mobile. For example, Delicious will let users search for results within minutes. The new graphs can track where links are shared to and how (e.g., via Twitter). ReadWriteWeb writes that Delicious [...]

Digg Announces New Advertising Platform

Socialbookmarking giant, Digg, is making news once again. This time, however, the news is surrounding their decision to change the way in which companies can advertise on their sites. Users will be able to vote ads up or down—the new advertising model is called Digg Ads. How will Digg Ads work? According to Digg’s blog, [...]

Browzmi Makes Browsing More Social

Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon have revolutionized the way in which users save and share their favorite websites.  A new tool, Browzmi, also aims to make web browsing easier to share. Browzmi’s first appearances showed promise in its browser-within-a-browser element.  Complete with chat and collaborate web browsing, Browzmi allows users to surf [...]

Stumbleupon’s Changes Keep User Interest in Mind

Social bookmarking site, Stumbleupon, will be going through some changes.  The new version will have an improved homepage, better review page and tag page. Additionally, the site will have upgraded web stumbling with Mass Share.  The new homepage will most likely provide the biggest change for users. When users log in to the new homepage, [...]

Social Media Networks Twitter and Digg Partner Up with Current TV

With one of the most vital elections about to take place, it is only fitting that it takes on different forms. This campaign season has shown many innovations and out-of-the-box ideas like text messaging information as well as politicians with Myspace pages and Twitter accounts. Cable channel, Current TV, has partnered with Twitter in the [...]

Twine Positions Semantic at a Forefront

Social bookmarking sites are quickly replacing the conventional way of saving one’s favorite websites on an Internet browser. Sites like Digg.com are becoming more widely used as a means for catching up on news in technology and entertainment, among other industries. And although Digg.com has reigned in popularity, it appears other companies want to take [...]

Microsoft Introduces Social Bookmarking Function

Recent reports claim that Microsoft will launch a preview of its new tool, Social Bookmarks. The preview will launch next month and will let users share information on the web through bookmarking, tagging and linking. Microsoft’s Social Bookmarks will initially appear on MSDN and TechNet. However, the preview will not show the full functionality of [...]