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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

Hootsuite

But if you’re sticking with #ThrowbackThursday posts on Twitter, unsure of how else to use hashtags, stay right here. They were first used as hashtags in the summer of 2007 by Chris Messina. That’s when the web marketing specialist walked into Twitter’s offices with an idea. They’re not just for Twitter anymore, either.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Similarly, Michael Twittered during SES in April.

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

Bare Feet Studios

via @KaimanaPine ) Extended Family: Online communities like Twitter and Facebook serve as extended families – smart and caring to boot! 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.

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Indians in Social Media (2009) «

The Marketing Blog

But now the platforms have diversified, today there are Indians heavily discussing social media on twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Twitter - Prepared by Gaurav, follow the social media section for a listing of influential Indians in social media on twitter. But your aggregation and your PoV is quite refreshing IMO.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

ve set it up, your RSS reader will aggregate all of the new posts on those fantastic blogs in one place â?? Become a Blogger (and a Twitterer). Blogs and Twitter go hand in hand. Britt (21:01:38) : Kim: You already noted my one addition, which is the tie in between blogs, twitter, and delicious, all linked through RSS.

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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. It launched back in 2007, and the service and team had been acquired by Facebook in 2009.

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