If you are fan of social bookmarking sites then you must be knowing about Digg. The “DIGG THIS” buttons are now available in a new design and are known as “Smart Digg Buttons“.

Digg recommends users to use the new Smart Digg Buttons as the new buttons are customizable and they provide real time stats. Integration of the new digg buttons is really simple and easy.

Here is a preview of the Smart Digg Buttons:

Smart Digg This Buttons

To integrate these buttons in your blog, feel free to visit DIGG.

Now let me tell you about the Digg Widget, one can use digg widget generator for generating the digg widget. Digg widget allows one to create a widget to show specific diggs about a site/blog or to show diggs as per popularity. Digg widget can be generated to show the posts dugg by your friends etc.

Here is a preview of the Digg Widget (created for the posts of amblogger.com):

AM Blogger Digg Widget

Feel free to post your feedbacks about this post and about the blog. Hope this helps

5 Common Problems Faced By All Bloggers

Blogging is a great way to improve your social circle, and is also a means of making money online. When you decide to start your own blog, there are five common problems that you may face. If you are able to tackle them, then you have a great chance that your blog will be popular and successful.

• Select Your Niche: The most important factor for any blog is the subject or niche, that makes the readers visit your blog frequently. It is not very difficult to find a subject, which arouses the curiosity of the reader. The subject can have a social message, or may be some thing that is uncommon. The subject could be about body building, health, movies or a particular sport, or may be related to a political issue, or a particular country. The bottom line is that you should have a concise and thorough knowledge about that particular subject. You will need content to be created on that particular subject daily, so always go for the one in which you have your personal interest.

• Choosing The Right Blogging Platform: Another thing that is very important is to have a proper blogging platform, to start your blog. You can choose from Wordpress.com, or Wordpress.org or go for Blogger.com which is owned by Google. I would personally suggest you to start with blogger first and then move on to Wordpress.org. I have used all three of them but I personally like Wordpress.org blogs, here are 10 reasons why you should go for custom hosted wordpress blogs.

• Maintain Regularity: It is very important that you write regularly, as the reader is interested to get more and more information about a particular subject, and if you don’t write regularly then your blog gets static, and the reader may loose interest in visiting your blog. If you do not write posts daily you may notice problems like loosing page rank, dropping alexa, loosing traffic, decrease in the earnings and all these factors will ultimately make your blog dead.

• Get A Response: Another problem that the new blogger faces very often is that he keeps on writing a lot of articles, at a regular interval but is unable to get any response from viewers, or readers. The remedy to tackle such a situation is to market your blog in such a way, so that he would be able to get a response from the readers, and improve his style of writing. Usually readers connect to the writer by using the comment box, all the readers are lazy to use the contact page, so here are some tips to get connected with the readers by getting more comments on your blog.

• Post Quality Content: The quality of the content, uniqueness of the subject, quality keywords, phrases, and targeted keywords in the headlines are all solutions, which would help you to make your blog successful and popular.

A blogger starts his own blog with the ultimate goal of making money from his blog. There are many ways to make money from blogging. You can make a lot of money by selling space on your blog, by getting advertisements for the different product available in the market. This is only possible if there are a lot of people visiting your blog, and your blog is popular. You can also write reviews for different products and people if your blog is popular, and has credit worthiness. You can also choose a lot of affiliate programs, which are available on the internet, and write for them. If you have a good knowledge of HTML, and CSS, you can also help other bloggers and guide them to make their blog more readable and successful. If you are providing free service and good quality to your visitors, then the readers may also be willing to donate some amount of money, to the services that you are rendering to them.

So start blogging and enjoy all the benefits that this great service has to offer to you. You will get a satisfaction that you had never enjoyed in your life before. I hope these tips might help you in tackling the common problems faced by all the bloggers.

Google Buzz is a network and sharing product built by Google, and the Buzz offers a lot of activities like links, videos from your friends, and other status updates. You can comment on any of these items and also check updates from Google reader, Picasa, Twitter or Flickr which are available in Google Buzz. The Google Buzz can also recommend items you may like to see based on your friends activities.

Certain features of Google Buzz are as follows:

Auto following: This feature allows you to go behind all the people that you have chatted with, or have emailed continuously.

It also allows you a speedy, and sharing experience, which is rich and welcoming and as Google buzz uses gmail , it is very easy, and user friendly, for those who use gmail. Another feature of buzz is that it helps in sharing images, and videos. It can also share both private and public sharing of information, based on your preference.

It also has an inbox that helps you in keeping it as the center of communication, and also filters noise, thus allowing the user to keep being flooded from large amount of information. Basically the objectives of buzz is conversation, and has arrived in good time, and you can recommend your friends, as well as other people , and also make the person understand why they have been suggested.

Buzz is also available to mobile users and it allows them to detect locations, using GPS, and WiFi triangulation technology and voice inputs. This can also be used for mobile web applications that work on iphones and Android.

The buzz is a new way of starting conversation about things that you find interesting, and as this has been built in your gmail you don’t have to start searching friends, as you already have a network of friends on gmail, with whom you have been chatting for a long time. The buzz is an easy to use experience, of sharing videos, links, and photos which can be shared privately or publicly and enables the user to see the stuff that matters to him most.

Buzz is also faster and consistent thus satisfying a lot of needs of the user, and makes a blog to load faster, saving a lot of the users time. It has been seen, that when you try to load a page it takes a lot of time, and money, and the user has to pay unnecessary charges for the bandwidth, if he is trying to download a lot of pages on his computer. The buzz is much faster, thus allowing you to save that time and money to download.

If you are not in front of the computer, then the buzz is also available on your mobile phone, thus allowing you to share and access a lot of information from your mobile phone. You can have information about a lot of things, like a new café that may have started some where or the score of a particular game that you may be interested in. You can also have a conversation with your friends without using the actual talk time. Thus, buzz can be very useful in your day to day life, even if you are not in front your computer.