Brent Csutoras

Delicious: Past, Present and Future

Brent Csutoras — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:55:16 +0000

Delicious, or del.icio.us as it used to be, was founded in 2003 by Jason Schachter. After growing in popularity relatively fast, it was purchased by Yahoo! in 2005. For the following 3 years, nothing really changed at Delicious and it quickly became known more as a sensible bookmarking service than anything particularly cutting edge. Shadowed by [...]

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GE Sponsors Digg’s Entire Health Section

Brent Csutoras — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:24:47 +0000

Digg is one of the first social media communities to really take sponsorships and advertising to the next level. They were the first to allow users to rate ads shown on the site, have sponsorships for events like Digg Dialoggs, and even combined banner and background campaigns targeted to specific categories or submissions. If you happen [...]

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Google Gets Into the Social Game with Google Buzz

Brent Csutoras — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:55:57 +0000

Did anyone else see the news about Google Buzz and feel a massive sense of closure? The lack of a comprehensive social networking tool always felt like a huge hole in Google’s armoury, but it was only a matter of time before they entered the arena. Rumours were flying round the web earlier this week about [...]

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Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media’s Double Standard

Brent Csutoras — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:18 +0000

For those of you living under a rock, Imgur is a site that allows users to upload and share images very quickly and easily. It’s grown massively in popularity over the last 6 months and has left similar services in the dust. It was created by Reddit user, MrGrim (Alan Scaaf), for other Redditors and this is [...]

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Digg Hacked or Clever Advertisement?

Brent Csutoras — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:47:49 +0000

It appeared today as if Digg had been hacked. If you visit Digg.com and view the page source, you will see the following in the code. However, if you notice the url near the bottom, http://hellisnigh.com points to a page which is advertising Dante’s Inferno, an EA game to be released shortly. Which makes you wonder if [...]

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