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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.

Bare Feet Studios

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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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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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

And what did social media and fantasy sports? The following year, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. In 2006, Twitter is born. Check out some of our content on perfecting your social media image game. Let’s take a look at what FanDuel is doing right on social media. They can update each other. Talk strategy.

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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. And “TechCrunch had about a million global page views in September, compared with 13 million for CNET News, according to comScore Networks Inc.&#. Location: New York, NY.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are a few tips and tricks to get started developing your own personal learning network: Join a Social Network. 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.

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