StumbleUpon - The Winner!
The results are in and it’s a clear winner for StumbleUpon!
StumbleUpon: 48 total views and 6 poll votes
DiggBar: 8 total views and 0 poll votes
Not quite the rush of traffic I expected, but it was a good experiment anyway. It was very clear that StumbleUpon will get you more traffic, but also more viewers. It looks like the few people the DiggBar did bring in did not stay long enough to even vote.
My thanks to the visitors. Looks like I will be using StumbleUpon from here on!
Jason Random Thoughts digg, results, stumbleupon, vs
StumbleUpon vs Digg
Recently, Digg.com released the DiggBar. Ready to see what great new things Digg has dreamed up, I quickly jumped on this. There are some cool features, but it all boils down to being a “borrowed” design from StumbleUpon’s toolbar. The cool thing about the DiggBar is the ability to use the bar without actually installing anything.
I am a pretty big fan of Digg. I have even been to a live filming of the Diggnation Podcast. It was a great experience, but it taught me a lot about the Digg community; You only get noticed if you are popular (yikes, it’s high school all over again). I have seen many great stories go unnoticed because the Digg submitter was not a popular person to follow. If someone like Kevin Rose submits a story, it’s Dugg like crazy just because he is Kevin. I have nothing against Kevin Rose. In fact, I admire some of the things he has done. It’s just the best example I could think of for a “blind fan rush” of Diggs.
I have used StumbleUpon many times in the past and had very positive results. The nice thing about StumbleUpon is that it gives you a truely random site and takes away most of the popularity contest. If you are a new website or blog looking for some attention, I would recommend StumbleUpon.
Maybe the DiggBar is more random than I thought. What better way to test it than a duel!
HERE ARE THE RULES:
- Submit this post to StumbleUpon and Digg
- Try to make the submissions to each as identical as possible
- Measure the traffic that is generated from both sites
- Post the results to this site April 21st, 2009
I have also posted a poll to see how many people actually vote for their favorites.
Good luck to both of you!
I don’t know what will be more embarrassing: The site crashes due to the heavy traffic or I only get about 3 hits from each.
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Trent Reznor
Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instramentalist talent Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) will be a guest on Digg Dialogg with Kevin Rose. Kevin is the founder of Digg.com, a popular social news website featuring stories shared by the user community.
The way the Digg Dialogg works is very similar to Digg.com. Users will post questions that they want asked and then others users vote (Digg) up or down the questions. The popular questions are the ones that will be asked of the guests.
The questions are starting to pile up quick (about 2300 as of this post) and time is running out - Deadline for submitting questions is April 4th at 12:00PM PDT. Do get over to Digg Dialogg ASAP!
I am a huge fan of Trent Reznor and all of his work. He is a very talented and creative person. He has inspired me many times with his brilliance and ambition to be the best. Dedication to his fans and the use of web 2.0 has firmed his place of one of the most powerful and influencial musicians of our time. I have had the honor of a front-row center at one of his shows and it was definitely one of my top 10 all-time, best moments. Thank you.
Jason Random Thoughts dialogg, digg, nin, reznor, trent
Here is a cool trick my friend sent me. If you have ever been in a band, you know how difficult it is to come up with a catchy band name, then album title, and then the album art. Why spend all that creative thinking when you can be investing it in your music, right?
The random generator for you band is as simple as:
- Going to Wikipedia and clicking “Random article” - Here is a direct link This is your band name.
- Go to the QuotationsPage and select “Random quotes” - Here is a direct link The last 4 or 5 words in the last quote is your album title.
- Go to Flickr and “Explore the Last Seven Days” - Here is a direct link The third picture is your album art.
This is not automated or a web 2.0 app (yet), so you will have to break out your favorite photo editing app to assemble all of this. Here is how mine turned out:
My first shot at the random band generator. Not too shabby!
The original post and more artwork can be found here.
Jason Random Thoughts band, cool, generator, name, random
I had a lot of work to do when I decided to (finally) start posting to the site again. I could build on what I had or I could start fresh. After looking over my previous blog structure and posts… I decided it was best to start from scratch.
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