Craze.cc - New and Innovative Social News/Discussion Community

I love social media, I’ll get that off my chest right now. There are so many new and innovative websites popping up each and every day which take the idea of social networking and spin it around with some new features and a new look, then present it to you in a clean and elegant way. Well Craze.cc is certainly one of those sites, and the idea is spreading fast. ...

April 11, 2010 · 2 min · 418 words · Jake

Interview with Young Blogger and Founder of Blogussion Alex Fraiser

I’ve always been a huge fan of blogs, namely up and coming stars. Blogussion caught my eye a few months ago, and I’ve been following their articles ever since. Jam-packed with blogging and internet traffic-related SEO articles, Blogussion is one of the top blogging resources on the web today. ...

April 10, 2010 · 4 min · 838 words · Jake

Reddit Page /r/circlejerk Clones 4Chan's Website Design

After visiting Reddit today, it was pretty obvious my favorite SubReddit circlejerk was up to no good. After toying around all week with a funny upvote arrow which looked similar to male genitalia, we’ve not seen an invasion of 4chan into Reddit. ...

April 10, 2010 · 1 min · 211 words · Jake

Make Money with Short URL Service adf.ly

With web URL shortening services in high demand these days, it’s no wonder adf.ly hadn’t come around sooner. Allowing you the same benefits of other free short URL services, adf.ly allows one big benefit - each pageview you get counts towards a small percentage of CPM costs for advertisers! Long story short, you get paid to use adf.ly’s services. ...

April 9, 2010 · 2 min · 397 words · Jake

Pligg Social News CMS Releases Official 1.0.4 Upgrade

The popular Digg-clone script Pligg has released their latest version as of today, stable release 1.0.4. There are a lot of new features from 1.0.3a and 1.0.3b releases of the CMS script, which have fixed a lot of security issues and bugs in the code. ...

April 8, 2010 · 3 min · 553 words · Jake

YouTube Rolls out new User Interface for Flash Video Player

Having seen YouTube roll out new video and profile pages over the past few months, it’s been obvious there’s been a new Flash User Interface in the works for the common video player. Well as of today, YouTube has finally released the newest UI to most video pages, and are slowly trickling down throughout all videos over the next couple of days. ...

April 7, 2010 · 3 min · 448 words · Jake

Jay Adelson Steps Down as CEO of Digg.com

In a recent blog post entitled simply “Update from Jay”, it has been officially announced that Jay Adelson will be stepping down as Digg’s CEO after 5 prosperous and amazing years. Jay has done an amazing job as CEO, and I firmly believe Digg wouldn’t hold it’s current success status today if it wasn’t for his ideas and inspiration. ...

April 6, 2010 · 2 min · 349 words · Jake

Digzign - New Social News for Designers that Dig

Social news has sprung along the web, and with the popularity of web design and graphics blogs sharing links has become commonplace. With popular sites such as DesignFloat and DesignBump, it’s hard to imagine much else. However I have recently found a great-looking Digg clone website at http://digzign.com/. ...

April 5, 2010 · 2 min · 261 words · Jake

Mashable-Style Google Buzz Widget with Counter Available by Njuice

As many fans of the popular social media blog Mashable know, over the past month or 2 they have been messing around with a new Google Buzz button. Allowing you to share stories over Google Reader which publish into Google Buzz, this small widget has grown in popularity and it seems like every blogger is looking for one! ...

April 4, 2010 · 3 min · 445 words · Jake

Interview with Jacob Gube of Six Revisions Design Blog

I’ve been in the freelance and web design/development community for years now, starting back when I was attending high school. I always keep up with the latest blogs, tutorials, tips, and design tricks from the community, and no blog has shown greater content with a higher rate of growth than Six Revisions. Jacob Gube is the founder and main writer at the blog, and I’m lucky enough to share with you some great Q&A’s between us. ...

April 3, 2010 · 6 min · 1201 words · Jake