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Beta testing is a very strange thing to watch. Some people ask for access and do nada. Others use the software in ways that, frankly, are puzzling. Some people complain about everything ("I hate red" is my favorite). Others give you attached excel spreadsheets of bugs they want fixed and features they'd like to see. Stack ranked. Bless the OCD among us because they are the one true beta testers!

But what I really live for are emails like these:

I started using your Social Suite with the expectation that this was yet another silly Digg tool that would be "eh, clever" and not much more.

I was completely wrong. Once a week or so I usually comb through each of my four Digg users, in rotation, to look for people who are banned, or who have stopped using digg, or who have dropped me from their friend list so I'm shouting at an empty cubicle. It takes me, literally, all day to check the high points. So I spend 4 days/month grooming my network. I drive 100K+ hits/month onto my websites, so this is time well spent, though it is really boring.

I plugged my digg logins into your tool, hit "research," went to a soccer game, and when I came back the work was done.

So this thing saved me eight hours. The first day I used it. Plus I actually had a lot more information to make better decisions.

Then I noticed the "unfriend" button and realized that I could save another three or four hours a month.

I look forward to being a charter subscriber. Do I get a discount?

Wow. And no. :-)

It's been kind of dark on this blog, but we're in a whirlwind beta testing our Social Site Automation toolset.  We're going to open up the private beta to around 20 more people, so please feel free to contact me (olivertaco@promote-my-site.com) if you'd be interested in giving it a shot.

You should be familiar with social media marketing and have extensive Digg experience.  Plus you should be willing to break out into lots of smiles and a few giggles.   The software runs in FireFox (only) and requires iOpus iMacro.

This has been an interesting beta, and I'm composing some thoughts for a longer post.  Which might even have some smart stuff in it for other people heading into beta test. 

Our Digg Genesis

We started off reading and "digging" stories from our favorite RSS feeds and quickly moved to posting some of our own writing. "Uh oh," you say, "bad blogger."

No, not really. For three reasons:

• It's not against the TOS at digg
• As our readers will know, we don't have a spam blog in any way
• It had it's own punishment in terms of public yawning at our posts

Because we are very interesting writers (*cough*) but not to the digg crowd and certainly not on every post. Our first 40 postings averaged 3 diggs each. I swear, you could scan your BK receipt, post it to "offbeat" and get more diggs than that.

But, not being totally oblivious, I started reading some articles on how all this stuff worked (or how people thought it worked!) and our average over the next 10 stories doubled to 6 diggs/story. Whoo, hoo, if we were a startup we'd have been worth $1B by then!

After a bit more attention over the next 10 stories we bumped our average to 24 diggs/story. From there our average over the next 15 stories went to 45 diggs/story.

Any my last story finally got "popular" and got 700+ diggs by this article.

Now, lest you assume I was spending my entire life on this, well, uh, no. I did around 70 stories over 7 months, or a couple per week. I was spending a lot more time digging (2,000+) stuff. A lot of that was shouts but a lot more was stuff I found by looking for people submitting stories with keywords I cared about.

So, to summarize, rocky start but a good strong finishing position, pretty good citizen. Maybe I give myself a B+, which would make Digg better than High School, in retrospect.

The Landmine Tripped

Not by anything I did outside the TOS, nor by a flame war, and not even by some self proclaimed Digg guardian. Nope, some sockpuppet knocked our blog out of bounds for Digg.

I posted a digg (Best. Digg. Shout. Ever.) about an absurd shout I got from a user called SteJules. I won't go into details but he'd been a Digg member for 31 days and had over 10K diggs and had a 20% hot rate. The shout was 800+ words and was priceless. It just begged for digging and though I was careful not to be ad hominem about it, I figured since he'd sent it to around a thousand people, I posted it. And it got 100+ votes in two days.

And it got our site banned by SteJules and his friends. Which is a long and boring story, but they did it on purpose by going back through posts from months before and burying them as spam. Nice.

Banning is Forever

Which is when I discovered that there is NO appeals process. You know how blogger will lock you out or require a captchya to post? Annoying but after a few days it usually gets put right. Google gives you a penalty, you can fix that in a few weeks. But no such process exists at Digg. (I actually have friends who know the guys what run Digg but you don't call in favors for stuff like that. Which makes it worse, actually.)

Being Innocent is No Protection

Oh, you say, you don't submit your own site and other people only do it sometimes. Well, what if someone creates a user, says that their home page is your domain, and starts, once a day, submitting your stories. After a few weeks they get their friends to swarm them and mark them as spam.

Bye-bye.

Diversify

Look, our business model does not require that we get traffic from Digg, but if it did, we'd be toast. We'll, we'd be toast unless we wanted to change our domain name, 301 redirect hundreds of pages, etc. And even then the "breathing space" only last until some other sock puppet bully gets you banned. So diversify into other social media sites. There are a lot of them, and if you read the articles under our "niche social media" tag you'll get a flavor for what is out there. In the meantime, while being a model citizen is smart, it certainly won't protect you.

If you would be interested in beta testing our new social media automation product before it is released, please drop me an email.

You should be

• An experienced Digg user
• Wiling to install iMacro for Firefox
  
• To spend at least a few hours using the product (My guess is that you will, like I did, fall in love with this product, so it shouldn't be too painful.)

We're very excited about how this will accelerate your ability to be successful on digg.  And if you're of an analytical bent, you will love what you can find out about your (and others) friend networks.

The otherwise very very smart Don Dodge posted this gem that gets some bits right:

I talked to a Facebook App developer at the ReMix conference. He told me his app is generating 300 million page views per month. Wow! Then I asked what kind of CPM (Cost Per Thousand) ad rates he was getting. He shrugged and said somewhere between $0.02 and $0.05 per thousand. That pencils out to between $6K and $15K of advertising revenue per month for those 300 million page views. Pretty good for a couple of young hacker/coders with very low overhead, but not the kind of business that commands million/billion dollar valuations.

Basic Assumptions

What I don't know about Facebook could fill Wembly Stadium with just enough room for a Flock reunion, so let's assume:

• This is app is at the median of the top 50 Facebook apps
• The actual income is at the top range of $15K/month
• The top app earns 10X what the bottom app earns and it's a smooth distribution

So, the total revenue for all 50 companies is around $12M a year.

No Money In the Ecosystem

Take these three data points:

• I have a friend who runs a three person shop that supports Cisco routers for a fairly large school system. He billed $3M last year. That is $600K/person.
• We work with a small Oracle outsourcing shop (5 guys in the US and 25 in India) that billed $7M last year. That is $230K/person, but if you cost average that by salary dollar the number is $700K/person.
• There was a local business paper article about a 12 person company that does custom Microsoft VP/Apps/whatever programming and just broke $7M in total revenue or $580K/person.

What's the point?

There is a LOT of money in the Cisco, Oracle, and Microsoft ecosytems. I'm sure all three of these remora companies are too small to even barely come to the notice of Microsoft/Oracle/Cisco.

If any of them were doing Facebook work they'd be #1 with a bullet.

But I bet the 25th largest Facebook Widget Maker can get some 1:1 time with whomever they choose.

Let's review: $12M/year in the Facebook ecosystem and, what, a couple billion for each of the big three? Hmm, well, there may be a network effect from the users of Facebook, but the outside world is starving to death.

Wiser Words

Let's parse one particular part:

Pretty good [$15K/month] for a couple of young hacker/coders with very low overhead, but...

It may sound good to make $15K/month, but that is only a buck eighty a year. Take 50% out to pay for taxes and basic health insurance and you're making $90K. Hope you don't have any hosting or other costs....

So, really, it's krep income, even when you come near the top.

Valuations

The next bit is even more interesting:

... not the kind of business that commands million/billion dollar valuations.

Good lord, Facebook is "worth" $15B to Microsoft and a host of other people and it's certainly going through money like this bubble will never pop.

Let's look at the valuations of our ecosystem companies for a second:

• Oracle - Market Cap=$112B, Rev=$20B, Operating Margin=34%
• Microsoft - Market Cap=$280B, Rev=$58B, Operating Margin=40%
  
• Cisco - Market Cap=146B, Rev=37B, Operating Margin=25%

(By the way, if you aren't impressed with a HARDWARE company like Cisco having a 25% operating margin, you should be.)

So, Facebook is worth 10% of Cisco or Oracle and 5% of Cisco? I think we know that is crazy talk. But if that is the talk, then why is Dan dissing the 300M page views of a Facebook widget maker? Isn't Facebook just a bigger aggregator of page views?

Do Some More Facebook Math

What did Zuckerberg have to say about Facebook revenue on a con call in January of this year:

Revenue for Facebook for 2007 will be $150 million, as has been widely reported. But for 2008, Zuckerberg projected revenue to be increased to $300 million to $350 million.

Currently they have 450 employees, so this year their revenue was $333K/employee, which is not bad.

Next year they plan to have 1,000 employees ... yes that keeps their revenue/employee pretty much flat.

Remember the 25th most popular widget maker pulling in $180K gross/year? He's not looking too stupid, relatively.

How does this math work again?

Summary

There aren't very many people making money adding value to Facebook, it monetizes it's users poorly, and management plans to ramp staff and keep revenue/employee flat this year.

[Stumblers, welcome!  Before you leave, check out our Digg Friend Finder (or our other SEO tools on the left hand sidebar) to find people on Digg who have posted stories with your keywords of interest in them!]

Recently I have been bending over backwards to be a good digg friend and to really nuture my network.  Not only because I am a nice guy (when I don't have low blood sugar!) but because I have been thinking and reading a lot about the dynamics of friends, voting, and vote "power" on digg.  And I had been planning to do some testing with different kinds of stories and shouting methods.  So I've had some focus on the subject for a week or two.

And that is when I realized that there was a whole different kind of play going on which in my head I've labeled: The Cheap Shot.

Cheap Shot

A cheap shot play is when someone "unfriends" you so that your vote counts for more.

Let me elaborate....  Someone "fans" you so you check them out and make it mutual  Or you "friend" someone who posts neato stuff, they make it mutual.  Ok, we're all, like BFF, and we shout and digg and it's all very very keen.  For sure!

A few weeks later they unfriend you (and stop digging your stories!) and you don't notice for a variety of reasons:

• You have a lot of friend action, incoming fans, etc;
• Your friend list is so big it doesn't really all fit in the shout window so you don't notice you are "one short"
• You notice but don't do anything because, hey, you're still a "fan" of their work
• You just don't think about it

Now this former mutual friend can shout you but you can't shout them.  Which means that you aren't cluttering their inbox, but most importantly, your vote counts for more.

Voting Power

Now, there are a lot of theories about how votes are counted in Digg, and nobody outside Digg really knows the answer,  and if they accidently erase that whiteboard it won't be clear to them anymore either.  General consensus is that, time and voting blocks aside (which Digg clearly discounts like crazy), there are different "power" levels in digg votes and they move your stories around into the places where the great unwashed can see them.  (I strongly recommend the 97th Floor guy's 3 Milestones of A Front Page Digg as a clear and cogent description of the promotion process.)  I'd probably summarize it like this:

Now, who the heck knows what kind of divisors Digg throws into the mixture, but lets just use this (overly) simple formula for examining your network. 

Digg Network Thought Experiment Part One

Let's assume that you have a network of 1,000 people in your friends list and that, on any given story you get 5% voting, or 50 votes, almost automatically.  And let's also assume that you have a pure network (you won't, but let's assume).

If you have all mutual friends then you have (50 votes * 1 Power) = 50 Power on your story.

If you have all fans then you have (50 votes * 2 Power) = 100 Power on your story

Hmmm.  Kind of explains why people will take the cheap shot action - they know that they stand to gain a LOT and lose very little.

Digg Network Thought Experiment Part The Second

Take a look at that stranger for a second - he is the vote you really want.  And if you read the 87th floor article (or if you've been digging) you know that you get that vote by moving into places where there is more traffic (duh).  But how can you manipulate your network to actually get access to that stranger before you get out into the open?  Here we are back to the cheap shot and how valuable it is.

What this picture shows is that when a Mutual Friend shouts your story to someone and they vote, they vote you as a stranger.  But Digg can easily see that relationship and probably discounts that stranger vote.  If the Mutual Friend was a "Fan" then that stranger-once-removed vote is probably a lot more likely to be 3 Power.  You can also see that the network passes more power more quickly onto your story - and we all know that time counts a lot in getting your story "popped" into view.

Let's assume again that 5% of your network will vote on a story, so that is still 50 people in our 1,000 person network.  And let's assume that 10% of those will re-shout a story for you.  So that is about two people who will shout it to, say 1,000 people total.  Now you have 50 "strangers" voting on your story so you have 150 Power points.  This will appear to happen twice as fast under all circumstances if you have a mostly "fan" network.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

How far does Digg discount "almost a stranger" votes?  Who knows, but they can't discount it too much or too far.  I don't see how they can because, at some point, they run out of computational power (remember, they have to do this in near-real time!) and, probably, there is a severe 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon problem here too.  I know Digg has a zillion billion quadrillion users, but given the number of active Digg'ers who have hundreds and hundreds of friends, how many votes on a story before everyone is connected to everyone else?  My mind reels at the math, but my gut says that at 150 votes you probably have 90% inclusion.

Gaming Digg With Multiple Users or Silent Voting Blocs

I think it's obvious that having people who are not obviously connected to you (multiple users *cough* *cough*) shout your stories into a network, especially a fan network, is the bees knees for making your story pop.  Enough said.

How Can You Spot The Cheap Shot Artist

Good question - I have no idea.  There are people with a LOT of fans and few friends and it is because they are really picky - I know a real person like that on Digg, so I know they exist. There are others who look like throwaway digg users who have been churning thier 'friend' base for a month or two to get a more powerful voting network.

The problem is that there is no setting for notification of unfriending.  There is no notice in your friends activity log.  You can pull it out of the API (sure, in my spare time) if you want.

At least in high school when someone unfriended you it was clear because you couldn't sit at their lunch table anymore.

I've been having a right proper geek fest with Excel, PivotTables, and the output from our Social Heartbeat Monitor of 2,000+ Social Networking and Social Bookmarking sites.

Actually, that was hard to type as my hands are kind of cramping up.

I'm still pondering what this all means, and it'll get a lot more interesting when we start having week-on-week data. But here are some interesting graphs....

PageRank and Live Count

As you may recall, we looked at over 2,000 sites and found the ones that were "live" - they loaded, they at least looked like they were having some social activity, etc.

So here is the total pagerank distribution - and it's interesting to me how many middle pagerank (if you can call a PR5 middle!) social sites there are.

But this is only interesting to the point where you can see what is live.   Remeber that not-live includes stuff that does not load, linkfarms, obviously dead sites, etc, etc.

So, fear not, fifteen seconds with my trusty Excel and you get:

Quite a spread - you are much more likely to have non-live sites towards the bottom, but can you imagine a PR9 site that is linkbait or a personal blog or something?

Actually, it was half.com, which used to (if you're old enough to remember) have all sorts of things not related to selling and buying. Thanks, Meg, for all the fish.

I Feel The Need for Speed

Quick explanation: pageload is the time it takes to load the home page of a site from our server in lovely cari.net. I rounded all the times to the nearest whole number so 1 second is really 0.5 through 1.49. It is a relative measure, so that should be fine.

And what we see is, well, it's all ove the board, but can you imagine a 7 second load on a PR10 website? That was the Annotea project at w3.org. A-freaking-mazing.

Sad Sad Man

Yes, I am, and it is because I love stuff like this.

What interesting stuff are you guys pulling out of this? We've had scores of downloads - many more than we thought for something so, so, so of interest to SEO type people. (And thanks for all the kind emails!)

It's always great to get a new tool like the Social Heartbeat Monitor ™ and I always appreciate an article explaining why someone built it.

But that is often all you get. I have to admit, I rarely read detailed instructions, so I'm a bit reluctant to, you know, write 'em.

How It Works

The Social Heartbeat Monitor ™ page has a a pretty traditional advanced search form built around a grid. And since most of the people here are going to be search professionals, I am very much going to continue to resist explaining how to use an advanced search form, but below I have covered the search, status, and filter options so that it is all a bit more clear.

Search Options

The search options are the normal and useful ones:

• Name
• URL
• Domain
• Description
• Page Title
• Meta Description
• Meta Keywords

The "domain" variable is the stripped down url, so "http://promote-my-site.com" becomes "promote-my-site.com" - which is handy for deduplicating our list against the one you use.

It is also useful for using "%.br" to find all the Brazillian domains. The url is what we were able to make load in our browser: "http://www.myfunkysite.com" loads but "http://myfunkysite.com" does not.

Status Options

These are pretty simple:

• Live - site is what you think it is - pligg or scuttle or myspace/facebook clone and you can login, post, etc
• Dead - does not resolve, throws error pages >5 days a month, etc
• TBD - have not had time to look at it yet
• Waiting - waiting on a response to test the site
• Zombie - site resolves to a link farm, or it loads but does not work reliably enough to be "live"

I'm sure someone from Gartner could come up with more expensive names, but those should be pretty clear.

Filter Options

And the filter options (equals, min, max) are:

• Page Rank (PR)
• Google Backlinks
• Yahoo Backlinks
• MSN Backlinks
• Pages Indexed by Google
• Pages Indexed by Yahoo
• Pages Indexed by MSN
• Name in Google
• Name in Yahoo
• Name in MSN
• Load time

I think the only things here that require explanation are:

• Name in Google/Yahoo/MSN - How many times does "VOIPigg" show up in each search engine. Think of this as a rough (very) strength indicator.
• Load time: how long to load the home page from our server. Yes, yes, I know that this isn't perfect, but it gives you a rough order of magnitude (ROM) for how fast/slow a site is. The range for live sites is from almost 10 seconds from Alexadigger to four tenths of a second (0.04) for eZine Writer.

All of the search and filter terms are available as columns in the grid. Obviously.

Downloads

Now, rather than swearing at google docs, you can download the whole list as a csv and filter away in Excel. Heck, if you're a glutton you could even put it back into your google docs and hum the Heintz Ketchup "anticipation" song if you want.

You do to register first to download. Why? So you can have the option to be notified when the list changes. Or when you next want to download the list you can get only the stuff that has changed. Handy, we think, and worth a quick and painless regsitration.

Feedback

Please do give us your feedback of the features and functionality. Things that seem obvious to us but not to our beta testers have pretty much been eradicated, but each time we release a new tool and thousands of people come bang on it we find they've done stuff we did not anticipate.

We already caught the problem when someone puts "-0.5" in the PR field, but what else will people come up with?

Enjoy!

And remember, since the Social Heartbeat Monitor ™ is fully ad supported freeware, you can count on it sticking around. We have around a hundred updates to the list but wanted to wait to get it into this new form before putting them in.

We're taking down the downloadable list of 2,162 social bookmarking and networking sites and replacing it with an interactive analytical tool that gives you a lot more information and display control. It will let you see the heartbeat for any social bookmarking or networking site. Thus, in a fit of imagination, we called this the Social Heartbeat Monitor ™.

(Plus it is much much cooler than a google doc and you can get the list directly as a "csv" file.)

Things you can find out

We've built some controls around a grid so that you can filter the list of 2,000 plus social bookmarking and social networking sites down into the sublist you're probably most interested in. By my watch it is between 30% to 70% faster than google docs. (Attention google: my technical staff is better than yours!)

We added the kinds of controls that will help you find something specific:

• You want PR5 or better Live Sites? No problem, there are 534 of them.
• Sites that are live but between PR2 and PR4 with >1,000 pages indexed in google? 403 of them.
• Insert your question here....

But most importantly, we introduced the idea of a heartbeat for each site.

Heartbeat?

It's great to have a big list, and it's even handy to have a "Live" indicator so that you know that sometime in the last two months I was able to use the site in an appropriate fashion (create user, login, post). But we're including what we call heartbeat information:

• Pages indexed in Yahoo/MSN and what-is-their-name, oh, yeah, Google
• Backlink count for Yahoo/MSN/Google
• Load time

We'll be keeping this information on a weekly basis for each site so that you can track a site over time. And, because we really believe in making this information widely useful, you'll be able to download the performance over time.

Made for Custom Analysis

For example, Mixx is getting huge buzz right now in the SEO community and has 133K pages indexed in google. Does anyone (outside Mixx) have any idea what that was last week? You'll know in a week if you come back.

To put it even more in perspective, Digg has 9.8M pages indexed and Dogster has 134K pages. Dogster? Yep, it's exactly what you think it is. But both Dogster and Mixx are PR6 sites with similar google love. Where should you be putting your funny dog stories? (Trick question, the answer is both digg and dogster, wtih mixx in third place if you have time!)

Do you find that your stories do better on PR4 sites or PR8 sites? Do you want traffic or links? Now you have to consider.....

Tribal Knowledge vs. Experimentation

Well, we know all about long tail search and long tail e-tailing and long tail PPC campaigns, etc, etc. And there are even a few of us talking about niche sites versus huge volume general sites (ex: Digg vs. VOIPigg) but you know, it's all been logic, supposition, and educated guesses.

At Promote-My-Site we've written about getting a diversified portfolio of social bookmarking and social networking sites. So we started thinking about analyzing sites - how many backlinks, what is their PageRank, what is the change over time, etc. It's all obvious stuff to want to know, but except for traffic share changes for the "big 10" you can't really get any of that. For free anyway. And you certainly won't get that easily downloadable.

No longer. Now you can experiment using our Social Heartbeat Monitor ™. Find sites that are in your specialty, look at smaller but still high value sites (there are a ton), re-post some of your greatest hits. Once you find a combination that works and gives you good ROI, find more sites like it using our filters.

Calling All New Sites

We spend an astounding number of hours pulling lists from the internet and came up with 2,000 to look at. Yesterday I got emails about three new ones. We'll be constantly adding things to the list and we'll give you a way to find "what's new." You can also easily suggest new sites right from the Social Heartbeat Monitor ™ page.

Time Will Tell

We believe that a social bookmark and network heartbeat will be a valuable tool for looking at the change over time of a social networking or social bookmarking site. We think you'll enjoy it and find it useful to build a portfolio of performing social network and bookmarking sites.

Presented entirely without comment or format changes, this digg shout from stejules :

Hello fan
Become a good digger, you must be first a good user on your machine, (handle the Beast)
no prob 200 manualy shouts and you are a profi and in the front, hey stay, not huzzling away,
you could USE the right tools, then it "could" (hehe) come automatically to automatism. (Robo01 to Robo02)

Stop and think shortly about all that

Look at this picture it is amazing crazy bad, and I think I will also have a digg camp with you as recruits.
http://twitxr.com/image/17344/

Here my help for you, to become a digger like me, if you want, if not please unfriend me, thanx.
Friends who aren't active at my account will be kicked off, without talking,
because of I have to handle a lot of friends, you understand.

WATCH OUT:

1. Use Mozilla Firefox 2.0.*.
--with Mozilla Firefox you have the most social bookmarking tools available (plugins) (digg/ facebook/ stumbleupon/gspace/flickr/ lots more) UC
-- important use the tabs inside the browser
2. Read this Monster Digg and bookmark it or digg it or both.
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Killer_Firefox_Extens ...
At the end I will tell you which of these tools I really use.

3. Have a special LOOK for "Snap Links" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 ...
-- opens all links with one click and move twenty diggs in a minute opened for reading and checking out.
4.HOT Google + Microsoft + Yahoo

5.HOT flickr Pics digg a cool one and make other happy

6. HOT Youtube, Hulu, Metacafe,

7. HOT Urban Art Graffiti, Events, Pictures

HAVE A LOOK FOR YOUR NICHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help me to become a top digger and I will help you, too.
Below you see the links, for which I beg you to digg, these are a lot but
you have now SnapLinks and can learn with my duggs!

Please digg, share, or commen, commenter are also needed, really commenting is very important,
but please you are here at my home, be nice lol

Watch out the headlines of these links follow them and have a look to the content.
These are the topics what I am looking for right now (HOT means itis only for me interesting)

http://digg.com/world_news/Stand_with_Tibet_Suppor ...
http://digg.com/hardware/The_worst_server_room_dec ...
http://digg.com/political_opinion/tibetan_monk_FRE ...
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Iraqi_cop_rides_motorcyc ...
http://digg.com/software/Social_Bookmarking_2_0_Di ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Pulver_Launches_An_Onlin ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Last_fm_Widget_Now_on_ev ...
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Now_I_find_him_B ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Mashable_DiggSuggest_Is_ ...
http://digg.com/software/Filter_Your_FriendFeed_Se ...
http://digg.com/programming/Semantify_Automate_You ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Vidoop_Kevin_Fox_Scott_K ...
http://digg.com/world_news/Cyber_Crime_Cops_Get_Or ...
watch this out learn more about web 2.0
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/What_Is_Web_2_0_by_Tim_O ...
Something color war 2008 thing green tagging war in the internet, more later!
http://digg.com/movies/Watch_out_Gary_Vay_Ner_Chuk ...
Wanna read more check this!

Watch out the headlines of these links follow them and have a look to the content.
These are the topics what I am looking for right now (HOT means it for me interesting
only for mw, but I will update it this day and post for you like a dashboard.

1. HOT: Mac and Apple specially iPhone SDK dev crap [Industrial News] - [Hack Videos]
-- my first Made Popular Monster digg I think i will never have a one like this Dudes, it was a lucky punch, but it has motivated me!
-- http://digg.com/videos/apple

DID YOU SEE THE QUEUE video-apple (Questions 2.0)

2. Japan Culture, Science, technology, Cars, GREEN (Germany, Denmark, ...) and have a watch to the
b.Chinese Copy and Paste will gone! ;D, Human rights, ART Artists they have great artists
c.India
3. HOT: BitTorrent articles, specially with TV Broadcasting, and further Internet Law Bittorrent (please read good)
-- paradise for all torrentfreaks toorentfreak.com ?????? use it as start and find more trustful and interesting torrent blogger, or become oe ;D!
4.HOT:World News Specially China - Tibet Conflict, Olympic Games 2008 Beijing - Peking China, Iran, United Kingdom, Great Britain
5.HOT: Sport Football European Championships in CH/ A, English Premiere League, Spain , Italy Primera Division, Brasil, Argentine,Mexiko

Digg is a very hard business, if you wanna be the best.
I must organize so many things, for example finding good and trustfull friends, that is not easy by 500+ increasing
please understand that it takes so long time for adding you to my my mutual friends.
Believe me shout to 500 fans [manually] is not fun it is hard work.

I open the Shout GOAL forever!

Now there are different ways for me to grab you

1. You can be lucky that I pick you up @ my queue and digg your Dugg.
BE SURE I will be there. I need Information [Nr. 5: "Input, input, inout] you C

2.You are a good submitter I see one or maybe more articles and check you out,
if your dugg is what I like you will be mine, for the motorcycle ride, you know.

3. i like your profile and the message from it.

;D
Greetinx
Ste
Sign the Petition and help Tibet
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/22. ...
Carthago delenda est!

I stand (well, sit in my post-dot-com boom Aeron chair) awed.