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muhammad.saleem's social media mavenmuhammad.saleem's social media mavenVenture into the world of social media with news, commentary, and reviews, from social media maven, Muhammad Saleem. Articles
guest post at read/writeweb: the economic idiocy of blocking social media t
2007-11-26 06:46:00 i?ve written a guest post at read/writeweb as a follow up to why digg is blocked. by now most of you have probably seen the site ‘why digg is blocked’. for those that haven’t come across it, the site is on a mission to convince webmasters and content producers to reject social media traffic. here’s a ... More About: Social , Media , Post , Read , Economic
do you ?digg the candidates??
2007-11-24 11:18:00 it’s almost been a week since digg launched digg the candidates, and it’s about time i took a shot at it. the new section let’s you keep track of presidential candidates’ profiles on digg (i.e. their submissions, votes, comments, and so on) and add them as friends. you can now check out the 2008 presidential candidates ... More About: Digg , Candidates , Candidate
guest post at search engine land: the social media manual
2007-11-21 11:16:00 i’ve written an introductory manual for participating in social media at danny sullivan’s search engine land: i get so many questions from people about digg, propeller, reddit, stumbleupon and other social news sites every day, that i decided to write this little “manual” as something to read before you jump in head first into any social ... More About: Social , Media , Post , Search , Search Engine
don?t let mirror-spammers hijack your traffic
2007-11-20 00:56:00 when i submit content to social news sites, i usually check them at least twice over a 24 hours period to see what kind of comments they’re getting. in fact, often times, i read the title and summary of someone else’s submission and read the comments before reading the actual story. one of the great things ... More About: Traffic , Mirror , Spammers , Hijack
4-figure glory: me and the digg 1,000 club
2007-11-16 23:06:00 i?m happy to announce that i was just inducted into the digg.com 1,000 club. i join the esteemed ranks of mrbabyman and digitalgopher, the only other diggers (apart from me) to promote more than 1,000 stories to digg’s home page (though i’m certain zaibatsu and supernova17 will be joining us before the end of the ... More About: Digg , Club , Figure , Glory
guest post at centernetworks: is there economic sense in a wsj-digg marriag
2007-11-14 23:37:00 i have written a guest post at allen stern’s centernetworks: this move will definitely increase the readership of the online news outlet and will most certainly further solidify the brand. however, while it is great to see that mainstream media is becoming more comfortable with new media and embracing it more comprehensively, i remain skeptical with ... More About: Sense , Post , Digg , Economic , Guest
spammers are farming digg for email addresses, remove yours now
2007-11-09 06:27:00 i’ve been getting really weird spam for the past 2 weeks or so and the first time i got it, i looked at the ’sent to’ field and noticed that a lot of the other people this spam was sent to were other top digger friends of mine. every time i got these emails, i ... More About: Email , Digg , Farming , Spammers , Armin
a reflection on the race to 1,000
2007-11-08 21:30:00 there’s no secret that i’m currently ranked number 3 on digg in absolute terms, and ranked number 2 on digg if you only count the active diggers. furthermore, one of my closest friends on digg, and my partner in crime at the drill down (our weekly podcast), reg (zaibatsu) is close on my tail. to ... More About: Race , Reflection
following the trail of a repost of a reposted repost of a post
2007-11-06 07:56:00 i was going through my rss reader last night, in search for something to submit to digg when i saw that engadget had published a post titled ‘charge your usb gadgets by breathing’. obviously thinking that this is something that would do well on digg, i clicked on it, but then realized that engadget wasn’t ... More About: Post , TRAI , Trail
a follow up to marty?s ?social rock star rules for little people?
2007-11-06 07:41:00 marty, over at the aimclear blog wrote a post a few days ago, outlining ‘social rock star rules for little people‘, to which i have been meaning to write a response for a few days now. initially i was going to write a point by point response but after reading the rant a few times ... More About: Social , People , Rock Star , Rock , Marty
stumbleupon database crashes - relax and take deep breaths
2007-11-05 22:42:00 relax and take deep breaths stumblers. stumbleupon has suffered a database failure and has been inaccessible for over an hour now. hopefully all is well and will return to normalcy soon. database access error there has been a problem accessing the database. this error has been reported automatically to stumbleUpon. if you continue to get this error, ... More About: Database , Deep , Relax , Crashes , Stumbleupon
stumblerank profiled on killerstartups
2007-11-04 23:22:00 killerstartups just posted their review of stumblerank. here’s what they think: why it might be a killer stumblerank.com is easy to navigate. the top users are clearly placed in a chart that gives you other information about the user. when you click on a user you are lead directly to their stumbleupon page where you can ... More About: Profil
is your blog easy to read?
2007-11-04 22:59:00 one of the most important things when you blog, is to make sure that you aren’t unnecessarily complicating things for your readers. your readers will be from all walks of life and consequently will have different reading and comprehension levels. Of course that isn’t to say that you should dumb down your content, but it ... More About: Blog , Read , Easy
appreciate another blogger with customizable blog awards
2007-11-04 22:48:00 we all have bloggers that we love and bloggers that we absolutely hate. while it’s easy to ignore bloggers you don’t like (just tune out), there are many ways to appreciate bloggers that you love, that often start with a comment or an email of appreciation. today i stumbled onto another way of appreciating bloggers you ... More About: Blogger , Awards , Blog Awards , Blog , Reci
stumblerank launched - ranking stumblers for fun and competition
2007-11-01 20:02:00 hi everyone, i just wanted to mention that i have launched a new site, called stumblerank. i have been using stumbleupon for a while and the more i use it, the more i realize that some aspects of the site don’t work as intended. therefore, and rather than complaining about what doesn’t work, i decided ... More About: Competition , Ranking , Launched
ruining the digg experience, one shout at a time
2007-11-01 00:14:00 it was supposed to be a feature that we had all been requesting for a long time: the ability to communicate with other digg users easily, and on the site. instead it ended up being a spam nightmare. here are my thoughts on david’s ten reasons to hate digg shouts: note: i omitted reason 4, 6, ... More About: Time , Experience , Digg , Shout , Erie
fast-track yourself to a stumblegod
2007-10-30 21:25:00 one of the many factors that stumbleupon uses to asses your ranking in their hierarchy of users is how many pages, photos, and videos you have stumbled. i recently discovered a stumbleupon-approved way of stumbling at light-speed. by clicking tools > toolbar options and clicking through to shortcuts, you can set keyboard shortcuts for the various ... More About: Fast , Track
pownce releases public api
2007-10-30 19:10:00 pownce, kevin rose’s twitter-clone, just released their public api. right now you can get lists of public notes, user profiles, and individual notes with replies. we?ll soon be adding the ability to post notes and get friends-only or private notes. check out the api documentation to find out more details. this is definitely a good step for ... More About: Public
security hell? and live to tell
2007-10-30 07:26:00 many of you have pointed out that searching for my site on google prompts the user that my site may harm your computer. my wordpress installation was hacked and some code was injected into my index.php which was causing people’s browsers and anti-virus software to scream. i have just upgraded to the latest and greatest wordpress ... More About: Security , Live , Hell
i don?t know why google hates me
2007-10-29 00:39:00 hi everyone, just wanted to quickly point out (as i am getting on a flight in a few hours) that i am aware that google is mad at me for some reason and thinks that my site will harm your computer. i have contacted them about this and am waiting for their response. i have no ... More About: Google
guest post at blogging experiment: strike up a conversation today for a rel
2007-10-24 23:40:00 i have written a guest post at ben cook’s blogging experiment: blogging means different things to different people. for some it is is merely for entertainment, for others it is purely a business venture, but for most people (including me) blogging is about sharing your ?expertise? with others, meeting new people, and building relationships. With that ... More About: Blogging , Post , Experiment , Today , Guest
youtube channel to aggregate every meme
2007-10-22 13:20:00 this is a quick announcement to point out a youtube channel that i have been working on. the channel is called everymeme and yes, you guessed it, i’m planning on using the channel to aggregate all the popular internet memes in one place. i have 17 videos uploaded already and am working on adding more. ... More About: Youtube , Meme , Channel , Chan
stumbleupon toolbar updated twice (3.11 and 3.12)
2007-10-22 05:18:00 the stumbleupon toolbar got a couple of updates this weekend. before we look at the details of the update, here’s a look at the new toolbar: the single best new feature in the toolbar is the integrated stumblethru option. previously stumblethru was only acessible from the dedicated stumblethru page or by actually navigating to the main ... More About: Toolbar , Stumbleupon , Bleu
the reddit toolbar: taking social news one step closer
2007-10-18 19:16:00 late yesterday night i was browsing reddit when i noticed a preference setting that either i had never paid any attention to before or that didn’t exist until recently. the option i’m referring to is the ability to display a ‘reddit toolbar’ atop links you click on from reddit. once you’ve activated this option, every time ... More About: News , Social , Reddit , Toolbar , Step
?personality? products versus ?product? products
2007-10-17 04:00:00 i was having a conversation with a few of my digg friends about diggnation a few weeks ago. the latest episodes of the show have been somewhat lackluster, sometimes feeling thrown together at the last minute, and half of the cast (kevin rose) is often mentally absent, making a less entertaining offering than what we’ve ... More About: Products , Product , Versus , Personality , Ality
me and the digg 900 club
2007-10-15 20:08:00 i?m happy to announce that i was just inducted into the digg.com 900 club. i am currently the only person in the group but zaibatsu will be joining me shortly. i want to thank all the content producers whose stories i have submitted (for creating the great content) and all the digg users (who have ... More About: Digg , Club
you - now featured on the nytimes
2007-10-13 01:41:00 great news from nytimes today: the online version of nytimes has started featuring comments from readers on the front page! i really have to hand it to their online team for embracing social media–first by embracing blogs, then with the submission buttons, and now by placing such high value on reader feedback. now if they could ... More About: Featured , Feat
linkedin learns lessons from facebook, gets smarter
2007-10-12 19:12:00 saul hansell over at the nytimes has some interesting scoop on linkedin’s plans to open up but in a closed way. ?we have no interest in doing it like facebook with an open a.p.i. letting people do whatever they want,? mr. nye said. ?we?re not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.? linkedin is ... More About: Facebook , Lessons , Linkedin
for photographers: how to optimize for stumbleupon photo-blogging traffic
2007-10-03 05:15:00 i’ve been using stumbleupon for a while now and am especially fond of photo-stumbles. whether they are from flickr or from professional photography sites/portfolios, whenever i find something i like, i photo-blog it. for those unfamiliar with the concept, photo-blogging is an option in the stumbleupon toolbar’s contextual menu that allows users to post a photo ... More About: Photo , Traffic , Blogging , Photographers , Stumbleupon
the techmeme leaderboard is now live
More articles from this author:2007-10-01 22:35:00 the techmeme leaderboard which arrington gave us a taste of yesterday, is now live. though it is being compared to the technorati top 100, the sites actually accomplish different things. on the leaderboard, the sites listed can be any news outlet that has been on techmeme, and the sources are ranked every 20 minutes based ... More About: Live , Leader 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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