Archive | March, 2008

Social Media is Going Mainstream with Yahoo! Buzz

Posted by on March 17, 2008 in Web Trends 0 comments

Bloggers have relied on aggregators like Digg and Mixx to drive traffic to their sites but Yahoo! has a similar product in beta that could catapult the social media into the main stream. It’s called Yahoo! Buzz. For a quick review: these aggregators allow users to post links to articles from around the web. If  Read more »

TechDirt Insight Community and Me

Posted by on March 6, 2008 in Web Trends 0 comments

I’ve been invited and have joined the TechDirt insight community. It’s an interesting approach to crowdsourcing. Members of the Insight Community are given cases (topics to write about) and each case has it’s own payment associated with it. In some instances, you are the exclusive author on a topic but on “challenge cases” your response  Read more »