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“I wrote a "social" site but I'm having a hard time attracting users. What your experiences with promoting your site? Have you successfully started a forum before, and if so, how?”

Too many social newtorking aggregators? Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!

So the question “how can I repay a loan with interest; where does the extra money come from?” becomes “how can someone give back more wealth than they were loaned; where does the extra wealth come from?”.

"next big thing" is social search: the idea of adding user annotations or other metadata to the process.

“The network of links between peasants who farmed a region of small region of south west France called Lot between 1260 and 1340 have been reconstructed”

Built with Ruby on Rails, Lovd is an open source social networking solution that has everything you need to start your community.

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Apparently in addition to hiring my speaking coaches and wearing a black fleece jacket as an allusion to my black mock turtleneck, Faceberg now is copying another of my traits and parking in a handicapped spot.

People pay them to pollute big social sites and get traffic, and they’re ok with being slammed for that. As long as they make money. The whole operation is complete with founder pseudonyms (Ragnar Danneskjold, Vasili Taleniekov), proxied whois records, more...

a great paradox of the internet in that the premise underlying them is precisely half right and half wrong. The correct half is that a next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from more...

The most active "user" on the news.YC turned out to be the site creator. Wow. Especially after his most recent essay on intellectual honesty.

Yahoo!'s social bookmarking property del.icio.us seems to have prevented robots of other search engines including Google from spidering the website or fishing out fresh web pages, bookmarks and websites, observes Collin. It was clear that it was not a simple more...

Please help. This will be the last post here quite some time. Please enjoy the pictures... most of them have been inspired by y'all.

Notorious social marketing site SubvertandProfit, which pays Digg users cash for Digging stories, is expanding its controversial brand of promotion to eBay’s popular link sharing service StumbleUpon.