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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I also have doubts that blocking the submitter data would even work, because of the API. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Sites like [link] use the Digg API to pull in the information and display it and Chris’s site does the same. Problem solved.&# People will do it, regardless.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Advice for students: buy yourname.com to secure your brand, make a video resume, start a Wordpress blog, use Google Reader, participate (comment on blogs and link to them), get on Facebook and LinkedIn, network, and more (see slideshow below): | View | Upload your own. One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

27 Website Promotion Sources that Have Nothing to do With Google or SEO (eMoms at Home): In other words, Wendy Piersall explains that your online marketing strategy is all about internet marketing and a whole lot of social media. Definitive List of Video Aggregator Sites (SEO Space): There are a lot of video sites beyond YouTube.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

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Application programming interface (API). An application programming interface (API) is a communication system that allows two applications or platforms to “talk” to each other. Social network APIs allow these platforms to integrate with other software providers and apps. Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google.

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No, You Can't Automate Social Media!

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Thanks to social media’s widespread adoption and thanks to a really open API for platforms such as Twitter, it’s inevitable that people will take advantage of the latest and greatest of Twitter tools — and then some — to eliminate the need for manual labor while still charging an arm and a leg for services.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Basically, Facebook thinks they can run a similar model to Google, not having live customer service. You can even publish updates to the users who have liked your own non fan page URLs by Programmatically administering your pages via the Graph API. You really want it to be removed from the sites that Spokeo aggregates from?

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