After making it to the front page of Slashdot (by surprise) and our WordPress site melting 2mins later with a server load of 41, we spent the next few hours bringing our WordPress site back up to functioning level... these are the tips we used to save it.

Tagz is a simple way to find and share new links on the internet. Inspired by delicious and reddit, we set out to build something with the goodness of both these wonderful sites put together, with some nice little extras thrown in.

This allows you to open all newly popular links in tabs at once and digg what you like.

A very simple and comprehensive tutorial to adding these so very important buttons to blogger blogs.

A shootout of social news sites and their performance as scored by YSlow. YCombinator wins, but largely because it has no ads. Reddit comes in a strong second. Digg, not so much.

The picture of digg.com I just grabbed from another post, sorry I can't remember you name. But I think this is very funny.

This site makes a great homepage for checking out the latest news and intersting posts across loads of Social Bookmarking site, Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia etc...

First I get all links from digg, reddit, fark, and a few other sites.Then, checking against those links using the recommendation engine I wrote, and a technique used to determine if you've visited those links, this site recommends links you might have missed.

Reddit has been open sourced under a Common Public Attribution License.

OurSignal is the latest site from the makers of CushyCMS, designed to bring you the freshest and most popular news from across the Web. It’s a mashup of several social bookmarking sites focused on news, including reddit, digg, delicious and hackernews.