Reddit Updates Widgets, Launches FireFox Plugin, and Updates Their Site

Every time I talk to the guys at Reddit, they are mentioning yet another change, feature, or addition to their site. I really don’t know how they find the time to do it all, with having only 5 people (6 now actually since they hired Erik the “Manager of Community”).

A lot of it has to do with the huge success they have had in making their site code open source.

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Clearly I don’t have the same time management skills that they do, as I am about to talk about three separate things they have launched or changed all in one post. However, I have been traveling a lot and just finished the redesign and relaunch of Weird Asia News (Check it out if you have not seen it).
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November 7, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media | 1 Comment 

StumbleUpon Dresses Up for Halloween

StumbleUpon gets kudos today for being the first social media site I have seen to dress itself up for Halloween.

If you head over to the site you will notice the entire site has turned from its standard bright white and blue theme, to a hard black and gray theme with orange links and a festive little StumbleUpon logo.
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October 30, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media | Leave a Comment 

Yahoo Buzz Finally Features Non-Yahoo Properties on Yahoo.com

yahoo-buzz-logo Yahoo Buzz Finally Features Non-Yahoo Properties on Yahoo.com picture I wrote an article today on Search Engine Land, asking the question “Is Yahoo’s Buzz a Buzz-Kill?” I then went on to explain some of the various ups and downs most people have experienced when trying to participate with Yahoo Buzz.

I had initially worked really hard to get one of my sites, Weird Asia News, into the Buzz beta program. When I finally got in, it didn’t take me long to see that the system didn’t actually promote popular content in Buzz to the Yahoo.com front page.

Instead, members from the front page team would manually pick articles to feature and the almost all, 99.9%, of the articles that were getting featured where from Yahoo properties.
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October 29, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media | 1 Comment 

Be Careful Traditional Media… Social Media is Invading!

Earlier this month I wrote an article detailing 5 examples of how social media was invading traditional media.

I really enjoyed researching the article and seeing how companies are starting to use social media communities as a way of filtering their content and coming up with the most popular and interesting material, to then use on either their main online platforms or in some cases in their offline more traditional media avenues.

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October 24, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media | 1 Comment 

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