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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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Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience

Convince & Convert

” On Facebook, though, brands are competing with your wife, with your friends, and with Krispy Kreme doughnuts, so in order to get engagement, Cisco has to put together fun content. When he was with IBM, Tim was instrumental in putting together their first YouTube video in 2006. The Cisco ASR 9000, of course!

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

The following year, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. In 2006, Twitter is born. It’s a fan-fave, and they’ve got over a million likes on Facebook, 200k+ followers on Twitter, and 38k followers on Instagram. Check out this question FanDuel asked their Facebook audience. They can update each other.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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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 going to boycott Facebook for now. “even when partners send them to Facebook&# ??

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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. It launched back in 2007, and the service and team had been acquired by Facebook in 2009.

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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. I think you are right, mainstream TV news sees YouTube and other video aggregation sites as a double-edged sword so they are proceeding cautiously.

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