Archive for November, 2007
Some tips and info on how to go about getting your blog posts featured on the Digg homepage
Digg’s algorithm accounts for recent participation rank of user and followers.
Frequent success makes subsequent success more difficult. Take a few days off sometimes.
Get a quick succession of diggs from “high-value” users.
The number of diggs needed to reach the […]
I’ve had a good week with attending my first 27 geek dinner which led to me writing the Afrigator Beta launch post on Bandwidth Blog. The post was picked up my bloggers and news publishers across the web and resulted in a healthy chunk of traffic for Bandwidth.
Here is some of the sites I found […]
Some stuff I’ve been reading
Meet the PayPal mafia
Afrigator: The Best of African Social Media, in Real Time
It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank
Google’s sneak attack? Adsense for Facebook
Kevin Rose: Mobile Web Is The Next Big Thing
Go West LinkedIn CEO: We’d only sell for “a helluva lot”
If you like some of these links check out my […]
I attended my first 27 Dinner amongst the Bentleys and gold diggers at Primi Melrose Arch last night and had an absolute blast. I rocked up quite early as I was anticipating bumper-2-bumper traffic coming from Sandton which was not the case. I cruised to the venue and walked into a half empty Primi […]
.. any Mac fan boy’s dream mail box
…check top right - theres a “I like” icon and a X to close the feed. I guess if you ‘like’ a particular news item they will show you more of that.. or less if you close it.
More here
.. and you thought your tax money was going to waste?
Pic credit - Vic Pardal
I have a ‘daily reads’ folder in my Google rss reader which I can’t wait to go through each morning when I wake. These are blogs and sites that have compelling news and insight each day that I can’t live without.
This post will also be a great way for you to discover some new sources […]
I broke my previous record for the biggest Google cheque received to date (R8792.40). Although, the cheque is from two months as I had a slow month in September so I haulted my earnings and combined October’s earnings as well - which was a good month.
My blog network’s traffic is growing nicely especially SA Rugby […]
An article I wrote a few weeks back on Bandwidthblog about South Africa’s startups to watch was published this past week. I was privileged enough to get the article published in the November issue of Intelligence Mag. The article came out really well and will surely mean some exposure for the startups profiled. Click on […]








