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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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Social Media Newsroom- Intel debuts social news hub

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Intel debuted their social media newsroom last month after eight months of development. It has all the features one would expect in a social news hub: commenting. SMR (social media releases). discussion areas. special access areas. Facebook and Twitter plug-ins. SEO friendly attributes. Experiment. Experiment.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? 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. Twitter as a news breaker. My personal favorite is CNN Breaking News. A social media user might want to call people’s attention to a recent stumble, blog post, or website.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? A few weeks ago I wrote a post over at SEO Scoop comparing the quality of search engine traffic against social media traffic. It is all relative to the content and the site.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Yes, it’s all to do with social media. Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog. Again, by no means is this new.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. These characteristics give the blogs mentioned below fame, fortune, and loyal followings. Want to build your blog and following? Blogs like Mashable and Gizmodo offer a consistent stream of stories every single day.