The Way of the Web

MARCH 10, 2015

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

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. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew. In May 2007, YouTube introduced its partnership program. Soon after, the term micro-blogging became widely used to describe both Twitter and Tumblr, noting the exchange of ‘small’ amounts of content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007, complete with descriptions about each blog post (which more than quadrupled the workload for me this time around, especially because I tripled the amount of links, but I had fun!) Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2007

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 have gotten very used to a certain (large) lack of privacy in most traditional senses.

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 24, 2008

Of course I Twitter and FriendFeed too, so this mea culpa is now pau! It is a great time saver, as I can upload one file and Tube Mogul will send it to as many as 12 other video aggregation sites. You can take advantage of our expertise, as well as our deep and wide social network of thought leaders.

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 14, 2009

She is a great example of someone who not only shares her knowledge but her network too. Here is how Toby defines a tweet-book: It’s a book written using Twitter as platform and distribution channel. Social Media Marketing GPS #smgps is the first business book to experiment with this format. Aloha & Welcome!

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Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 26, 2015

Twitter has been around now for nine years; during that short time it’s changed both the PR profession and practitioners alike. I’ve built an international following and have had many great opportunities come my way thanks to my Twitter profile. Many of my clients first became aware of me via Twitter, so did my boss.

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 29, 2008

The more often you release new content, the more often you show up on the top of the page of the various web video aggregation sites. 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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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 4, 2009

Makes me wonder about leaving a “when I die&# list with all my network profiles and login credentials – if I could even remember them all! Seems that the aggregator sites/openId sites are the first place to turn to build in a feature set “in the case of death.&#

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Bare Feet Studios

MAY 27, 2009

I have to weigh the credibility of each reviewer and make a weighted decision based on all the reviews in aggregate. 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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Bare Feet Studios

AUGUST 23, 2008

Having said that, it sure would be great if all of the vendors and commercial content providers/aggregators would show up and support the Expo. 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 1, 2009

I would have liked to point this campaign to my San Francisco friends, who also happen to be active web users, who themselves have a large “following&# via blogs, social networks, Twitter, et al. Together, just those few friends mentioned above have over 75,000 followers on Twitter. Does Share Mean Spam?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Microformats – Web content will have more machine-readable markup and UGC (like reviews) will be aggregated into larger sites/services. Again, by no means is this new. Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

« links for 2007-12-29 | Main. links for 2007-12-30 » Saturday, December 29, 2007. So as 2007 winds down and thoughts turn to productivity and prosperity in the new year, I offer these tips to help. This philosophy is key - Google Reader = news aggregator + custom feed database. Micro Persuasion.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

I know many are already in the process of trying out other social networks, so the phenomenon of social news won’t die down anytime soon. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Did I even Twitter the link? Problem solved.&# If you ask me, this is becoming a circular argument.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and others â?? Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) refer to the aggregation of single-functionality tools which enable learners greater control over their own learning experience. Instead of centralized, instructor-controlled learning, PLEs are distributed, social and learner-centric.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2007. Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list. The article has examples of how social media worked too. In it, he offers some thought-provoking insights into what must be understood before going into social media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Towards a Definition The following definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences. services like social bookmarking or photo sharing. Vuorikari, R.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach. If so, don’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 6, 2009

They aggregate different applications from third party vendors into a package and sell the bundle at a discounted price, an old business practice familiar to many of us. This is the network effect. And they and their fans use social web tools like YouTube, Twitter, and communities to spread the word. Not one bit.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

People love data, and they love knowing how data can be aggregated to make conclusions. They love charts and graphics, and they love the findings that can be made from this data in aggregate. A great example is how he provided a deep matrix into Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter just a few days after Buzz was launched.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Related Terms: e-portfolio, virtual learning environment, VLE, digital lifestyle aggregator, DLA, continuing professional development, CPD. and e-portfolios conference, University of South Denmark, 7 May 2007. Presentation at eLearning Guild 2007 , 11 April 2007, Boston. Presentation at MIT , 10 April 2007, Cambridge MA.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. In one case because of privacy issues.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

The widespread adoption of social media has caused for hordes of “experts&# to suddenly come into town assuming that they can totally own this niche. These new “Internet Marketers&# take Twitter by storm, using automated Twitter tools in abundance that give them the true appearance of expertise.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The math takes time to aggregate.&# (Lesson: Stop noticing things the second that they happen.) As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. I want Facebook to look at this guy on Twitter. Users knew that everything on Twitter was public and subject to public scrutiny.

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