When I wrote about the death of Digg back in March I suggested that Digg would fall off their perch as being the #1 social bookmarking site by Christmas. Judging by the fact that Digg are up for sale and a number of high profile bloggers have been slating them over the last couple of […]

If you’re a searchspotter (they’re a bit like trainspotters only more geeky) then you can’t help but have noticed the furore over the SES San Jose session about paid links. SEOmoz has a nice write up of the events, Michael Gray has posted his infamous presentation and there’s a great video interview with the pair […]

Having been offline for most of the last couple of weeks due firstly to an influx of client work and more recently because my old computer died, I don’t know if this is news or not but I’ve just seen the cool new Beta version of StumbleUpon and I’m impressed.
One of the things I found […]

Remember when I mentioned my carpet cleaning guy and questioned whether it was always possible to leverage Web 2.0 techniques for every type of product?
Now, as far as I can see, no carpet cleaning story is ever going to make the front page of Digg. Linkbait for carpet cleaning? I don’t think so. Equally, a […]

Search guru Danny Sullivan has launched a new social website called Sphinn. For the official..ahem..spin..read the article at Search Engine Land but to quote Dave Naylor:
It’s like Digg without all the arseholes
I’ve not had a chance to look around the site properly but Michael Gray (aka Graywolf) gives a nice run down of the service […]