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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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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

Fast forward to the 1980s, a group of journalists developed the Rotisserie system for fantasy baseball. When the Rotisserie system (still the most popular scoring system today), was invented by a group of journalists & covered during a big baseball strike, fantasy sports got major media attention. In 2006, Twitter is born.

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

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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

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. Location: New York, NY. More Info: About The Huffington Post. CEO: Eric Hippeau.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). So while I love Facebook , Twitter fulfills many needs.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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. ve set it up, your RSS reader will aggregate all of the new posts on those fantastic blogs in one place â?? Facebook /Kim Cofino. December 2006.

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