I’ve written a guest post at Mashable taking a look at Digg’s latest and arguably best update offering to date.

All in all, while the DiggBar is certainly an improvement for the end-user, with one release, Digg is positioning themselves in the center of some of the hottest growth markets at the moment and at the same time protecting their core function of content sharing by taking a little focus off the destination site. As usage of the DiggBar increases, they’ll piggyback on content sharing via social networks and microblogging sites as well as corner a very nice chunk of the url-shortner market while increasing the engagement on Digg, without even having people visit the destination site.

read the article.

Technorati Tags: digg, twitter, diggbar, social media, social news, microblogging

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable taking a look at the blogosphere’s reaction to Eric Bauman and his team being ousted from eBaum’s and comparing the site’s position to to larger video sites

Ultimately do we hate one because a smaller group of people is infringing on the copyright of small, independent content creators while the other is a platform that enables hundreds of thousands of users to infringe on the copyrights of large corporations?

read the article. (and don’t forget to digg and stumble the original link)

Technorati Tags: ebaum’s world, youtube, mashable, social media, social news, online video

I have accepted a position of Senior Editor for Social Media with Search Engine Marketing Journal and am thrilled to be working alongside Brent Csutoras.

The goal of the journal is to help professionals in the industry share and demonstrate their expertise. We are different from a magazine in that we encourage the submission of articles and research papers by experts in the industry. Similar to a scientific journal, we review articles submitted by industry professionals and our editors decide if the article will be published in our journal.

If you would like to have your paper considered by the journal please review the requirements and submit it for review.

Technorati Tags: social media, social news, semj

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable disecting the anatomy of a revolt and analyzing Hulu CEO’s response to the community and the lessons learned from the response.

However, the lessons to be learned here are immensely important and it would be a severe injustice to yourself as an entrepreneur, your community, and your investors, if you don’t learn from Hulu’s mistake and Kilar’s response memo.

read the article. (and don’t forget to digg and stumble the original link)

Technorati Tags: mashable, social media, revolt, social news, social networking, microblogging, digg, facebook, twitter, hulu