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Sphinning out of Control

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Having been a user of Sphinn for quite a long time now, a site which I find very useful and I respect greatly for the general quality of news items posted there by its users, I'm becoming concerned about the volume of companies who think they can get themselves links from this site and actually think their mindless spam is worthwhile. Sphinn is an INTERNET MARKETING news and discussions site which encapsulates many corners of web activity. It is NOT a resource for promoting car insurance deals, free gym equipment or information about gluten-free pizzas. Those thinking about organising an SEO ... Read Article »

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Profy - The casual all-in-one

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I came across Profy today and it really impressed me. It claims to be an 'all-in-one' blogging platform, a haven for bloggers if you like, where a combination of blog posting, social networking and feed reading is combined into one easy-to-use platform. Having watched the demo, it certainly does look easy to use and this leads on from my previous post about who uses social bookmarking. My concerns of casual Internet users being able to use such features were founded on lack of purpose to uses them and lack of mass documentation describing what they are and how to use ... Read Article »

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Who Uses Social bookmarking?

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

You look at any blog post including this one, and you'll see various tags attached around the pages tell you to 'bookmark this', 'sphinn that' or 'make this post a favourite' and I'm sitting here thinking who actually uses all these widgets and why? Digg claims to have over 20 million users, which is quite incredible but who are these users? The idea is that when you bookmark a site or a post, it becomes saved in your profile on the social bookmarking site and most likely shared to other users using the same service. So by making this bookmark, you ... Read Article »

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