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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. For entertainment via memes, humor subreddits, or to discuss TV or movies. For example, instead of saying “the memes subreddit,” I’d say “r slash memes.”. appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. Often, friends from the “real” world gave me passage to the social media world. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing.

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Aloha Summit Links: Overview of Online Video

Bare Feet Studios

Vimeo - High Def videos; groups and memes Mobile Video: Qik – for Nokia N95 and iPhone Flixwagon – Nokia N60 series and iPhone Many of these services will cross post to other social apps, such as Twitter or each other even. They charge for bandwidth also; most of the other services are free.

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Plagiarism … or Inspiration?

ProBlogger

But because of the nature of ideas and how they originate and propagate through society as memes, there are people who take this kind of structural borrowing as a theft of ideas. Compare that to Bones, which first aired in 2005. It is very difficult to demonstrate exactly where any one meme began in most cases.

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PLE

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The PLE project at Bolton University ( CETIS page description ) ( project page ) “This project was funded by the JISC Distributed eLearning Programme and ran from August 2005 to the end of July 2006.&# Wish-list: aggregate outbound social media experience. memes to me. memes to me. Social Media Today.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

TechCrunch and Mashable are two of the most influential tech blogs; both covering a vast majority of the news happening in the start-up and social media world. That’s right, it’s his job to find out find what videos, memes, and stories are hot right now, and make sure Mashable readers see them first.”

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How to Make Stunning Social Media Graphics Even if You’re Not an Artist

Hootsuite

Not every social media manager is a pro graphic designer, but it’s often an expectation of the job. Read on to learn how to make social media graphics that look professional. What are social media graphics? Social media graphics are pieces of visual content that are shared via social networks.