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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 Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network

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They were first used as hashtags in the summer of 2007 by Chris Messina. Because of the platform’s brevity, he suggested the company start using the pound symbol to group related Tweets together. — Chris Messina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007. Otherwise the hashtagged content you write won’t be seen by any non-followers.

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Content Is Everywhere - The Changing Tide Of The Internet

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There have been a couple of major indicators that the world of publishing and content is shifting away from the traditionally held value that you have to drive traffic to one, specific destination. The smart producers of content link out to the best content. It's about the new way content flows in a digital world.

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on 11/08/2007 08:15:00 PM. November 13, 2007 6:43 PM. November 19, 2007 7:43 PM. Be sure to check out the MyBlogLog topics pages which aggregates feeds around tags. Show Table of Contents. ► 2007. (53). If I see an relevant entry Ill either read it right away or file it on del.icio.us under toread.

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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

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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. He embedded other live media to keep people informed, and was being used by CNN to inform their global television audience.

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What Happens After Your System Notices Something Important?

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I've seen many tools that find relevant content and apply some level of automated analysis, but we're not about to replace the analyst. In 2007, I pointed out the need to link social media monitoring to customer service , because most of the problems that people were seeing as PR problems started with unhappy customers.

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Friendfeed and GigaOm announce closures as Apple launches new products

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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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