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Are you aware from Digg and Reddit? I guess yes, but if you are not then please do let me introduce them. These two websites are the biggest name in social bookmarking sites. These two websites are normally known for providing huge traffic to the websites or blogs. The basic theory behind the two sites is that both works on the principal of user interaction, and they list the news on their home page on the basis of the votes they are getting within a stipulated time frame.

Digg works on the concept of Discover, Select, Share, and Discuss basis. Actually if you are going to submit any news in Digg then the news will be either liked by other people or disliked by them. In case if a news got more likes than the dislikes within a stipulated time frame then it will reach to the first page popularly known as fp of the Digg.

On the other hand Reddit works on the concept of Read, Vote, Explore, and Submit basis. A vote in Reddit means “I found this interesting,” not “This should go on the front page.”

I am an active user in Digg from long time ago, while I am the lucky one whose account was not yet banned by them. I am more than 100% sure that I did not use any type of spam in Digg or in any other social bookmarking site. From last some time I am hearing that people from Digg are shifting towards Reddit. Popularity of Reddit is increasing from some time.

I have seen that people are not getting the 100% satisfaction from Digg and that’s why they are shifting to Reddit. As far as my own experience is concerned then I too have faced a few problem in Digg (You might be interested to check this article: http://www.seonews.in/2008/05/31/the-problem-which-you-can-face-with-digg/) As far as I know that if you will honestly participate in Digg then you will always like it, after all I know the happiness which you get after your news reaches to the fp of Digg. The flow of traffic increases hugely.

But yes it is also true that in some cases judgments of Digg were not good, if you consider them from the human point of view, but if you consider them as a robot then you will say, “What can they do?”. I am well aware that few people are having a different opinion about Digg, and some people feel jealous about a few power diggers. People some time wonders why almost every news submitted by Mr. Baby Man, or msaleem reaches to first page, while lot’s of stories did not reaches to fp despite getting good number of diggs too.

One more matter of regret in Digg is that if some one submitted your site’s news in wrong category or do some unethical then Digg will ban your site, although you have not made any mistake from your end. It means you are facing the guilty of a crime which was made by some one else.

So basically these are the few grievances which is acting as a motivation to the users of Digg to shift to Reddit or some other social bookmarking site. Reddit is happily providing the shed to the people who are coming unhappily from the Digg. Reddit is also one of the top social bookmarking sites of the US and it also provides huge traffic to the websites or blogs. Both the site is having almost the similar facilities and functionalities, though Digg is a bit simpler than the Reddit, as far as my personal opinion concerns.

Some of my friends have opened account in Reddit, and they are getting good amount of visitor too. Some times they complain too that Reddit is not so much user friendly as Digg is. I think some of the visitors of my site who are member in both the site will give some light on the difference between the two sites. I will be waiting to see there views in the form of comment.

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Web 2.0 becomes the need of today as there is emerging a new generation of potential employees and customers that are accustomed to a variety of technologies being available. These employees expect to see and use the technologies in the corporate world.

These technologies are not only interesting for personal use but they also help the corporate world to search better employees for them. Whether and how we deploy these technologies likely will have an impact on our ability to attract new talent to our companies and to find and retain customers. All these technologies fall into the loosely defined category of “Enterprise 2.0.”

Rather than dismissing these technologies right out of the gate, these techniques can be best use in the right way. If neglected, it can lead you to a competitive disadvantage.

Here’s a sampling of these technologies:

1) RSS (Really Simple Syndication): It automatically feeds you information you want. RSS can be used to push order-status information directly to a customer’s company intranet.

2) Social networks: Facebook and MySpace like networks help the employees to introduce themselves to the company. These can also be a resource to help employees find a potential car-pool mate, someone with a background in product design or specific experience on a product you are thinking about launching. It extends your network to a wider zone and can be helpful to reach your target place.

3) Quick Messaging technology, Twitter: A quick messaging technology, such as Twitter, provides a wider reach of the message (a “tweet”) as compared to e-mails. It lets people know what you are doing at an instant. For example, if someone putting out a Twitter message that says, “I’m updating the marketing plan; does anyone have any info on X?” The tweet may have a wider reach and generate a better response rather than sending out an e-mail that gets lost in everyone’s inbox. Twitter and FriendFeed are communication and collaboration tools. And when your research project is done, share it via FriendFeed.

4) Social networking: Social networking technologies such as FriendFeed can be used to share a variety of information. The technology lets users share Web pages, photos, videos and music with friends and family. This is an easy way to exchange the data.

5) Instant messaging: Instant messages are exchanged for quick replies.  E-mail is so “last decade.” Instant messengers are available to give a better solution. This technique not only provides a better way of communication but reduces the wastage of space in Inbox on the e-mail server.

6) Wikis, blogs and mash-ups to share, collect and edit information: Wikis and blogs can be used for training and collaboration on large projects while Mashups provide a good overview of the operations. It can bring together production and operations data from a variety of sources, allowing a production manager to get a good overview of the operations.

7) YouTube-style videos: These videos can be used for training or distributing important messages such as the CEO announcing a new product launch or Joe, the IT help desk guy, receiving an award. This technique is providing visual trainings which is much better than textual one.

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