Articles Tagged 'digg'
Current Trends in Social News Website Design
Salman SiddiquiTrends don't happen overnight. It is the gradual process of change in an industry that initiates new trends silently. We might not notice the "new" trends in an industry unless they actually become new trends. I covered the trends behind hotel web designs just because I could see a pattern emerging amongst all the well known hotel web designs. Nowadays, community based news sites have become very common. Such sites push the end user to share news and vote for news articles that are worth it. Digg lost its fan following but Reddit is still killing it. Somehow such news based community websites have followed a set pattern which has always been the success formula. This discussion will focus on such trends that have kept the community based news sharing websites going since a long period. From The Archives - While you are here, don't forget to check 45 Best Social News Websites To Garner More Traffic that we did on 1WD a long time back. Most of them are still as effective now as they were back then.
30 Most Valuable Digg Tools You Should Use Daily
Dainis GraverisDigg is one of the best and the biggest social network right now. If you know how to treat it, you can get amazing floods of traffic regularly. However using just their homepage and simple techniques always aren't enough. Do you know what's hot now, how many of your friends digg your stories, actual trends and many other analysis about Digg? These trends always continue to change so you need several tools to keep up. And this is place where this article comes handy - I carefully tested many tools and then selected the most usable ones I enjoyed and I hope this research will help you too. Also I am using Firefox, Wordpress and Greasemonkey in regular basis, so on this list you will find a bunch of plugins and scripts too.
