Digg ditches Google and teams up with Microsoft

Digg.com, the popular user-provided news site, has sacked Google as its ad provider, and instead struck a three-year deal with Microsofts younger 'adCenter'.

The deal came as a surprise to the users of Digg, as the site has be known to support Apple and Unix, and practically campaign against Microsoft and its Windows systems. One Digg user, Lemonblood, stated simply, "Today is the day Digg died."

It has been suggested that Microsoft may have offered a revenue share that was too good to turn down, despite the fact that they may not make anything at all on them.

The deal has been likened to the one that Microsoft did with social networking site facebook last August. People are expecting to start seeing these deals take place with other such sites, for example, the fastly growing yet unfinished Sceneparty.com

I guess we'll have to wait and see

Free Directories - huge list

Found a big list of free directories that I thought you might be interested in:

DirectoryCritic.com

Hope you find it useful!

Bookmarking Sites List

Hey, I've always wondered about all of the different bookmarking sites that there are nowadays, as well as the ones that everyone knows about. So when I came across a big list of them (on http://www.populair.eu/) I thought I'd share it with you

Alternatively of course, there is a pretty good little thing you can use:





This is a simple way of having lots of different bookmarking sites on your own, as it uses 34 bookmarking sites in one button. You can find these buttons absolutely free at AddThis.com

Anyway, this is the list:


1 del.icio.us/popular?new
2 furl popular headlines
3 stumbleupon buzz
4 simpy / de.lirio.us
5 netscape
6 rawsugar popular
7 hot spurls
8 clipfire popular
9 jots
10 backflip
11 wists top galleries
12 blogmarks most populair
13 ma.gnolia popular
14 wat vinden wij
15 netvous popular links
16 linkroll
17 feedmelinks mile-long
18 i89
19 linkaGoGo most popular
20 yahoo by popularity
21 blogmemes most popular
22 diigo
23 wink
24 livemarks (del.iciou.us)
25 populicio.us (del.iciou.us)
26 my bookmark manager
27 igooi most popular
28 connectedy hot topics
29 maple
30 openbm
31 blabb today pop
32 chipmark most recent
33 kmfavorites
34 Smarking popular
35 guicookies popular
36 Syncone
37 buddymarks latest
38 myhq
39 my link vault
40 myvmarks recent
41 sa.bros.us
42 scuttle
43 stylehive
44 recent dealclips
45 blinklist HOT now list
46 shadows

SEO-Friendly Image Headers

OK, so everyone knows that images containing text that are used for headers are not very good for SEO. You can use the "alt" attribute, but its still not as good. So heres how to do it the SEO way...

HTML:


<h1><span>Your Header</span></h1>


Obviously, the difference here is that there is an extra "span" tag in there. Reason will become obvious in the styling...

CSS:

h1 {

background-image:url(yourimage.jpg);
width:200px;
height:40px; (Width and height must be that of the image)
}

h1 span {

display:block;
height:0;
overflow:hidden
}

This means that the text will essentially be there, but it will not be displayed

"Why not just use "display:none"?" I hear you say. (If you didn't, just humour me)

Well, its a possibility. That method is known as the Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) technique. Unfortunately, it has a flaw, which is that it not only removes the visibility of the element, but it will also be ignored by screen-readers. Therefore if you want your site to be accessible by people with certain disabilities, it is better to use the first option.

Hope that helps you out!