I love Digg, you love Digg. We all love Digg – it can bring in boatloads of traffic, and even though the community is starting to slip down the drain the site still has some value. I always enjoy checking out what the highest ranked stories are over the year, and 2009 hasn’t had it’s shortcomings of news.

Taking a walk down memory lane of this year’s happenings, I have refreshed myself about 25 of the most interesting and popular submissions to Digg. Take a look at the list, I’m sure classic Digg users will remember at least a few of these.

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I am sure most of you know of Problogger.net, one of the most popular blogs on the scene today for teaching you how to build a money-making blog. Darren Rowse, the main author and creator of Problogger, has written well over 4000 articles for Pro Blogger and has shared them throughout tons of social media and news outlets. His blog has helped hundreds of thousands of readers learn to make money online, and I have selected some of my favorite posts to share!

I have always found Darren to be a huge inspiration. His work with Pro Blogger and Photography School have been extraordinary, and he currently earns 6-figures just by blogging! I hope to learn as much from him as I can, and hopefully my success will be great, as well as all of yours! Anyways enjoy the list, and let me know your favorite articles, too.

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Ever since Digg launched all those years ago, everyone has been looking to create the next popular Digg site. Websites like Mixx, Dzone, DesignFloat, DesignBump, and many others have popped up – many of them based on the popular Pligg platform. After taking some time to realize what I have an interest in (blogging and web design), I decided to create my own Pligg-based website: bloggerden.com. Mostly targeted towards internet marketers and people looking to make money online, Blogger Den is a Digg-styled site featuring the most popular blog posts, social networking Continue reading…

Digg has shot into mainstream. Everybody wants to hit the front page, injecting thousands of visitors to your site. Unique visitors = new traffic = possible repeat traffic = $$$. Simple formula, where everything is equal and makes sense. Basically, social news allows your to reach a much wider audience with your blog posts.

Since Digg’s popularity everyone has wanted to create a micro-niche off of Digg – and thus Pligg was born. One such website based on Pligg that has turned very popular is CypherBox. The name may be strange, but it’s a fantastic Pligg-based social news and media website for almost anything tech!

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There are new social bookmarking sites popping up every day on the internet, growing as fast as blogging. There have been many popular sites that have exploded onto the web, such as Delicious and Digg. However, people are constantly looking for the “next big thing”, and social bookmarking is definitely the way to go.

There are many collections of social boookmarking sites, but they tend to get tedious, repetitive, and boring to stare at a list of text. Therefore, I have collected 50 of the best social bookmarking sites around the web and compiled them into a list… with screenshots! Continue reading…

After spending a lot of time following StumbleUpon on Twitter, I finally found a beta keycode to enter and register to their new URL shortener.

Su.pr is a new beta site started by StumbleUpon that allows you to shorten URL’s with advanced stumbleupon features added to the post. Although it is in private beta, StumbleUpon is releasing key codes on their Twitter page. If you follow them and spend some time checking up, they post new codes every once in a while to join. Lucky for me, I ended up with one and signed up immediately! So far the program looks awesome, although I haven’t had a lot of time to work with it. Continue reading…

After spending some time on the web today researching a few web design tpics, I ran into a very peculiar concept: a CMS system based entirely in Flash. Is it possible? Oh, it’s very possible, and it’s in active beta as you read this!

FlashMoto is a groundbreaking script based on Adobe’s ever popular Flash. As more and more websites turn to Flash for enhanced UI, visual effects, and heightened creativity, there have not been many frameworks for developers to work with and base their applications around Flash. However, although it may seem like a real hassle, the development team with FlashMoto really did a great job Continue reading…

I know that I have posted a lot of lists on my blog, so I figured why not post up another one? In this list, I have gone through my old PC magazines and scoured through over 500 IT, technology, internet, and security based websites and come up with 33 of the best designs I could find. I have seen plenty of powerfully compelling web designs in my time, and these definitely take the cake for some of the best I’ve ever seen. If you are looking at creating a website for either yourself or your client and you’re developing in the IT niche, please do consider using this for inspiration in your upcoming projects! And without further pausing for time… the list!
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I have always been a fan of web navigation. It is a huge part of what makes up each website, and it’s what allows visitors to get around the site. So I have decided to go around the web and collect 40 screenshots (and links) to 40 of the coolest, sickest, and most web 2.0-style navigations I could find. Hopefully you guys enjoy the list, and I plan on making another one in the near future. I tried to get websites from all aspects of the internet, not just the common social networking cliche that goes with web 2.0. So please, do enjoy the gallery!

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