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Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links? Is this real?

jstratford — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:29:18 +0000

Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links was the headline of Pete Cashmore’s post on Mashables tonight and the subject of his post.

Digg did just that which is the unthinkable. Digg hijacked your Twitter links and it is for real.

For Mashables and all of us who aggregate content it was a handy place to mark and move to the next. Digg decided to do this without anyone knowing and it’s very underhanded. Even if they claim on Monday that it wasn’t intended that way, well, that’s the effect it’s having on their subscribers and users.

Look at it this way: there’s a natural flow of information moving around and creating discussion which is why we utilize social networking and social media such as social bookmarking which Digg is a part of. There is a viral effect of the aggregation which spreads the excitement and Conversation around the Web virally. Digg may not have thought about this, but their model doesn’t fit in!!!

I’m trusting that Monday Digg will re-evaluate their decision and by then it’ll be cresting the top of Twitter trends and hopefully the other sites which measure what’s hot.

It is a loss to the social media community comprised of millions of users that Digg felt they were above anyone’s level to the point of being underhanded and not exercising some corporate ethics. There was no regard for their customer base and it shows a lack of integrity that it wasn’t disclosed ahead of time.

Personally if they don’t change because of people protesting it, there will be no choice but to leave in 1 week unless they are working on an equitable solution!

News Update!

The Founder of Digg Kevin Rose had been away on vacation for the last two weeks and let people on Twitter know that he didn’t know about the changes.

just now reading the digg short url discussion, I was not aware this changed and will check in on it tomorrow (was on vacation for 2 weeks)about 3 hours ago from Tweetie

kevinrose

So let’s see what happens and hopefully he’ll help turn this thing around. It looks like someone might have implemented what seemed like a great idea without getting it cleared up. Time will tell !

Read the story first hand if you haven’t.

Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

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Where SBA and Social Media Meet – The Score Online Community

jstratford — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:50:08 +0000

SBA and Social Media meet Via the SCORE Online Community in Collaboration With PartnerUp

Business owners now have a unique resource for Social Networking called Score Online Community.

The Score Online community was launched last month and currently advertises that they have 11,000 members. Every person considering going into business or that is already in business should take a look at it and decide for themselves.

There shouldn’t be an American businessman that hasn’t had a consultation with SCORE before launching their business. Just in case someone doesn’t recognize SCORE it stands for Service Corp of Retired Executives and is comprised of 11,000 Business Counselors. They can be found at http://www.scorecommunity.org Score Counselors to America’s Small Business.

With the partnership of PartnerUp and SCORE this Social Media Site gives potential 111,000 additional reach which could be very advantageous.

On the Score Community Social Networking site it states the following:

“Why Join SCORE?

Find People and Resources to Help You Succeed
Exchange Business Opportunities and Ideas
Get Free Advice and Answers
Grow and Manage Your Contacts”

There’s so much that could be said about SCORE since they’ve helped over 8.4 million businesses with advice and this network should help the entrepreneur to broaden the reach, get valid advice from not only peers, but from the SCORE business counselors, and be able to list their business and/or properties, and interact with the community in the forums as well.

Visit Score Online Community and form your own opinion and later on we’ll revisit it and see if it’s as viable as it seems from my perspective.

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Spark.ly Closed Beta Launch of the Social Networking Meta-Site Closed Beta June 15, 2009

jstratford — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:26:24 +0000

Spark.ly Arrives on June 15, 2009 as the New and Innovative Social Networking Meta-Site Closed Beta. “Spark a Revolution“.

This new social networking site will give the people who have signed up the ability to join the closed beta and see what the new social media networking meta-site will look like, how it functions, and to see it as it moves through it’s development stages.

It’s important to understand that this is a new model and anyone who has Social Media Aspirations and interests should sign up to be notified of it’s launch. http://spark.ly/

There are three stages in it’s development.

Stage 1. “Social Networking (current stage) enabling members to organize and communicate with their social networking universe from one location.”

One example of what sets this apart from the other social sites as explained by Shane Murray is the “user interface and how you manage people. There’s so much to say about pictures when there’s 100 or 200 of them.” Many of us who are visually oriented people will relate to being on a page of avatars that are unfamiliar. Later these become very familiar to the point of recognition. In our lives outside of the virtual world it’s the same way so it’s very natural to cultivate the same recognition as we do in our daily lives.

Stage 2. “Social Media (Future Stage) they educate and inform their members via self organizing knowledge sharing communities. Think of it as a newspaper in 35 languages with content provided by their members and edited by community managers and editors held to the highest ethical standards.”

Stage 3. “Social Commerce (Future Stage) every member is given a free storefront to sell their items or other members’ items to the world. We connect people with ideas to people with distribution channels via their intelligent marketplace.”

Shane Murray, “By combining Social Networking, Commerce, and Social Media we give our members a powerful voice that allows them to collaborate, exchange, and compete globally.” One of the key areas of focus is “the Middle East is an important market An entrepreneurial spirit is important to get a form of democracy.“

One of the intriguing functions of this is the upcoming Social Media stage where people are going to be able to be “self organizing and sharing” Mr. Shane Murray gave the example of the people with a baseball team wanting to organize in one place. At this stage they have the opportunity to join, setup the community.” This gives the members with the ability to see the information and participate. With people scattered about in different social media sites it can make chaos into order.

To sign up for an invite for it’s closed beta at http://spark.ly/

This is what many of us have looked forward to since there are many social networking sites and with the variations of usernames and passwords as well as attempting to remember them it’ll seem refreshing to see this social site with desirable functions to aid us in organization, simplify things to one hub, and relieve our minds of constantly striving to remember sites we’ve signed up for and no longer use that we receive notices for sometimes daily. On June 15, 2009 it’ll be time to move towards simplicity as it’s rolled out step by step. I’m trusting that many will join me in that very move. I will be looking forward to connecting with you at http://www.spark.ly

The founders of Spark.ly are Shane Murray and Glen Starchman are entrepreneurs and not new to these pursuits or the technology and are well equipped to facilitate the rise of this Social networking, Social Media, and Social Commerce to prominence in the Sphere of Social Media.

For Official information:

Shane S. Murray

Chief Evangelist

+46 76 18 39 577
shane@spark.ly
http://spark.ly

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