6 posts and columns on social news

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Reddit Lands Facebook Vet Yishan Wong as CEO

in Media on March 8 at 3:03 pm PT

Reddit has a new CEO. Former Facebook engineer Yishan Wong is joining the rapidly growing social news site, which owner Conde Nast is spinning out as a separate company — in part, so it could recruit people like Wong. “I’m not looking to step in and make ‘big, bold changes’ — I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline,” Wong wrote on a blog post announcing his move.

Confirmed! Reddit Users Really, Really Dislike Pop-Up Ads.

in Media on January 29, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

It is all Apple, all the time in techland this week. Except at Reddit, where the social news site’s users spent most of yesterday obsessing about something else: A rogue ad.

As Traffic Booms, Is HuffPo Ready to Make Some Real Dough?

in News on October 20, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

For the past few months, the Huffington Post has been on a bit of a tear–both in terms of traffic gains and in its hiring of some big talent for key positions. Now, those execs are focusing on using that consumer momentum to achieve what has eluded the Huffington Post thus far: Making some serious bank from the privately held news and media site. Here’s a chat I had with new President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman about how he is aiming to do just that.
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Digg Changes Its Toolbar Amid Publisher Complaints

in News on April 16, 2009 at 7:35 am PT

Digg modified the toolbar that it launched two weeks ago, a response to Web publishers concerned that it could affect their visibility. The social-news site released the new feature on April 2. It adds a thin strip to the top of pages submitted to Digg that includes the number of times other users voted on, or “Dugg,” the link, the number of times the page was viewed and other statistics and browsing options.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Digg Says Sharing Is Caring

in News on April 2, 2009 at 8:02 am PT

According to Bob Buch, vice president of business development at Digg, sharing is caring. Or at least it is when it comes to being a successful Web publisher. In a Wednesday presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he advised content providers to harness the power of social-networking sites and use “share” buttons (such as Digg’s, of course) to optimize Web traffic.