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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. What is a hashtag? You might gain some new followers this way. Follow hashtags.

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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. ► 2007. (53). I want to see fresh information each time I visit my page so I use quite a few feeds based on keyword or topic searches.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Ă‚? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. What are my top picks? Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. This was particularly prevalent during the South by Southwest conference several months ago, which helped fuel Twitter’s growth.

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

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ve set it up, your RSS reader will aggregate all of the new posts on those fantastic blogs in one place â?? December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. Once youâ??ve Lijit Search. Bangkok Time.

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