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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

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via @KaimanaPine ) Extended Family: Online communities like Twitter and Facebook serve as extended families – smart and caring to boot! Via @JohnGarcia ) Hashtag Aggregation: People create hashtags to help aggregate related content from disparate sources so the world (and all of its relevant subsets) can be easily informed.

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

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Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. The following year, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. In 2006, Twitter is born. Social media makes fantasy sports a global, connected community. Check out this question FanDuel asked their Facebook audience.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

I’ve always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: social tools + people = lives saved. Please send someone to get her out.&#.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Currency itself has no inherent value except what we, the community/nation, put on it. Business: An online newspaper/news aggregator and group blog. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal wrote that TechCrunch has revenue of $120,000 a month. Monetization: Facebook Revenue and Business Model (7). Estimated Value: $150 million.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. It also serves a specific purpose, while its chief competitor, Facebook, does not. That’s why I, like Eric , won’t be spamming Facebook, but I feel fine about doing so on Twitter. Yeah, I thought so.

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First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning

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tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. ve all heard of MySpace and Facebook , and while those are great ways to connect with friends and colleagues, an even better place to start is a social network with a focus, like Ning. Facebook /Kim Cofino. Once youâ??ve

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