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What is Digg.com?
Digg.com is a social media website that lists and organizes hyperlinks based on users’ votes. There are no editors. Links are submitted by the Digg community, with users encouraged to view the content and vote on it. The more “diggs” a link gets, the more prominent its placement.

A website that gets enough votes can ascend to the Digg homepage, where a huge influx of Web traffic can flow to it. More than 17.6 million people visited Digg.com in November, according to Compete. Sites with links on Digg’s homepage can get traffic spikes that reach into the tens of thousands.

For a marketer, Digg.com can serve as a viral platform for content. Links on the Digg.com homepage can spread around the Web, generating hundreds, sometimes thousands, of inbound links.
Content is organized first by these platforms and then by topic. Topics for news, video and images are:
Technology
World & Business
Science
Gaming
Lifestyle
Entertainment
Sports
Offbeat

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007…Techipedia.com

How do you feel about reaching out to your prospects and customers via a mobile device?

Quiksilver used Access 360 Media to create a mobile application for the annual Big Wave surfing competition on the north shore of Hawaii. Mobile users opted into an alert system that would provide information on wave heights, the surfers, what the contest conditions were, who was winning, and other types of interesting information.

Twitter allows users to receive updates via text message. Your friends on Twitter can send you updates through this free service. We use Twitter to send updates to our customers on the planning of our 2008 Customer Symposium. They can select to receive updates via e-mail or text message.

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Every now and then, I run across a really great start-up. I learned about a company called CIRadar through a friend of mine.

CIRadar has a competitive intelligence solution that is very innovative in its approach. They acquire information about your competitors and place it into different modules titled: Alerts & News, Research, Marketing, and Sales. The company has bots that crawl the Internet, looking for useful information.

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