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

Bare Feet Studios

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. He embedded other live media to keep people informed, and was being used by CNN to inform their global television audience.

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Friendfeed and GigaOm announce closures as Apple launches new products

The Way of the Web

Friendfeed was a useful social network which combined short updates similar to Twitter with the ability to easily collect and aggregate your content from a huge variety of sources, into one feed. GigaOm originally launched in the mid-2000s, and became a full time job for founder Om Malik in 2006.

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Insurance of goods comprised in hire-purchase agreements 27.

Writtent Blog

So long as you have these terms in your rental agreement, you’re protecting yourself in the event your tenant is someone you no longer want to rent to. In the event that the vehicle is damaged before the rental, the owner is obliged to inform the next renter in order to agree on a potential discount or arrangement [link].

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

In a June 2010 survey of the DomPrep40, an advisory board of disaster response practitioners and opinion leaders, nine out of 10 respondents said they are not staffed to monitor social media applications and respond in a major event. Merni Fitzgerald, public affairs director for the Fairfax County, Va.,

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Customer Anthropology: The Art of Observation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

< £ Salon Bloggers & > June 15, 2006. -->. © Copyright 2006 Dave Pollard. Last update: 01/07/2006; 1:41:30 PM. category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually. live reports from events. MADE IN CANADA. trust your instincts. <

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. I am in favor of business relationships with independent media creators. I am going to boycott Facebook for now. .

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter.

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