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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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How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Don’t live inside your news aggregator. I was actually thinking to myself yesterday that my news aggregator and social media feeds have become way too central in my blogging. This post was first published on Aug 30, 2006 and updated Nov 25 2021. Say something original at least once a day.

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Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience

Convince & Convert

The RSS feed is: [link]. When he was with IBM, Tim was instrumental in putting together their first YouTube video in 2006. And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. Listen Now. Click the play button to listen here: Download the audio file: [link]. Find us on iTunes: [link].

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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. Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time. Twitter as a feed reader (for more important feeds). I subscribe to nearly 150 feeds and have no systematic way of reading them ( unlike Robert Scoble ). I also did so during SMX.

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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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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. You never know until you check out their feed. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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