Spikethevote.com is an application which aims to game Digg and get your link on the front page. It’s up for sale on Ebay at the moment.
From a review at Tech Crunch:
A link on the front page of Digg means tens of thousands of visitors to your site, so it’s no surprise that people [...]

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We had the pleasure of hosting the first ever Opera Backstage Conference in Russia last week. The Opera browser is very popular over here in Russia and they currently have around 12-14% market share (compared against 3% for Firefox). That was fairly evident in the reception they got.
If you’ve been away from Opera or [...]

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As part of new promotional campaign for Live Search, MSN have released a viral. Ms Dewy, a sarcastic character will provide a running commentary on your searches.
Leave it alone for a few minutes and you’ll get a glimpse of MSN that will frighten the tin-hat brigade (possible Google aspirations here? heh).
Keep asking questions, the [...]

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We’re big fans of Dave Child and his cheatsheet collection in our office. Almost all my staff members have one or more laminated copies and they really help. All except for my link building team who were feeling a little left out. So it seemed the perfect format to create a search engine query cheatsheet [...]

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According to this press release, Marketing Sherpa has just been bought by Marketing Experiments. As Anne Holland, Sherpa Founder, comments -
Who is MEC Labs?
They’ve deliberately flown under the radar for the past five years — so although they conduct cutting-edge, primary research about marketing tactics such as video ads online, search marketing, and A/B [...]

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A recent survey of 32 journalists by nngroup revealed that they failed to find the information they were looking for on company websites 30% of the time. The top five reasons journalists visited a company website were:

To find a PR contact
To check basic company facts (spelling of an executive’s name, age, HQ location).
Discover the [...]

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What do you do if your client has come under attack on the internet? Maybe they sold exploding laptop batteries, insulted US soldiers in Iraq or made music like Kevin Federline (well ok that last one maybe a losing battle). Here are some strategies to clear out some of that bad press that can drive [...]

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