Huffington Post Launches Digg/Reddit Clone

I missed this last week, but apparently the Huffington Post has launched a Digg/Reddit style section on their site called Huffit. 

Basically, the Huffington Post is automatically ingesting RSS feeds from pre-identified blogs (including themselves) and then giving registered users the ability to vote on their favorite stories. ...

Snap WordPress Plugin

We implemented a new WordPress plugin (Snap Preview) this week that uses Snap to provide visual previews of  links on mouseover.  Nothing revolutionary going on here, but it is nice plugin candy for people into that sort of thing (me). 

Screenshot below:

Go here if you want to install....

BlogBurst Wants to Give Us Money

BlogBurst is a service that makes content from a pre-screened group of blogs available to a network of publishers, including the likes of USA Today and Reuters. We signed The Bivings Report up with BlogBurst right when it launched in May in an effort to get more folks to read our content....

Missed Opportunities for the New Yorker

One of the best blogs around is written by New Yorker reporter and author Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell posts around once a week about his books (Blink and The Tipping Point), his latest New Yorker article or some other topic that strikes his fancy (like the NBA or racism).

The blog is quite successful....

Mitt Romney Launches Presidential Campaign Website

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the first iteration of his campaign website recently and it is underwhelming.

I am certain that the Romney campaign has big plans for the site. But as someone who develops websites for a living I can tell you that the features you choose to include (and exclude) on launch say a lot about where you are headed....