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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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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

Today, we are hearing reports that Facebook is going to launch a reader application, and my first thought was, I hope this won’t change Facebook’s current update feeds. However, the social network has been working on Reader for more than year, according a report in the Wall Street Journal and is said to resemble Flipboard.

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I’m Worried About Google Plus

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s no secret to most of us in the digital world that Google’s track record in trying to roll out socially infused applications is not good. Maybe this town ain’t big enough for another social network? I can’t even remember the last time I checked in at Google Buzz. Here’s why.

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In social media, cluttering the space, confuses the topic

Direct Marketing Observations

I’m the biggest proponent of social media that you could possibly find but I am also the one that told my daughter that she doesn’t need Facebook. I also told a group of 400 parents and educators that anyone under the age of 16 doesn’t need to be on a social network. She’s 14.

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The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Semi-truth #1: Our infatuation with the next, new, shiny, thing in social media depreciates as soon as we realize that it’s just another engagement, aggregator, application, thingy requiring more time, increased effort, permission to access, another profile creation etc., fair enough. What happened? The coolness wore off.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The mobile interface is much easier to use than Facebook’s, and was built for a mobile life instead of trying to make a desktop application retroactively fit a phone. Path also taps into this need but the most exclusive social network is Pair where it’s just for you and your significant other. Cutting through the crap.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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