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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 @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. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N?

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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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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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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. Once youâ??ve

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

And what did social media and fantasy sports? In 2006, Twitter is born. One of the best ways to get to know your audience is to use an analytics tool that can aggregate data from all your platforms. Sprout Social does this, and it’ll help you spot which platforms work best with your audience. Talk strategy.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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