Scoopler, the ‘real-time’ search engine supposedly aggregates content being shared on the Internet nearly instantly, organizing live updates from services like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and other social sites. Searches for a topic on Scoopler bring up search results in the middle column with the most relevant results for your query, updated in real-time. [...]
Scoopler Gets You the Scoop on Real Time News
May 12th, 2009Digg’s New Linking Practices
April 12th, 2009Digg has begun using a feature that Iframes all pages linked from Digg. The question has come up – how can Digg encourage the indexing of such pages? There seems to be no additional value to DiggBar pages in Google. Digg says they “always represent the source URL as the preferred version of the URL [...]
Investor Digging Digg
September 28th, 2008Digg is on the brink of major expansion, with Highland Capital Partners leading a pack of investors chipping in to the tune of 428.7 million in funding. The investments plus the revenue to date will be used to significantly grow the Digg team, undertake massive new hiring and move the offices uptown to swanky new [...]
Ebay Stumbled with StumbleUpon
September 21st, 2008In May 2007, eBay bought Stumble Upon (the popular website recommendation engine) for $75 million. The acquisition seemed quite formidable at the time. StumbleUpon membership has jumped from 5,000,000 to 6,003,763 since April – a 20% increase in only five months. So why is eBay putting StumbleUpon on the market? That July, the site had [...]
Yahoo Buzz Opens Up
August 20th, 2008For those familiar with Technorati, Yahoo’s Buzz seemed like a pretty cool deal – until it was revealed it would only be available to select publishers when released back in February. As of Monday night, Buzz has been opened up to all publishers, with a handy Buzz button to place on your site. Like Digg, [...]













