Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react. Completely.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The conversation primarily revolved around whether the “always on” nature of sites like Twitter require that you tweet 24 hours a day, since your followers aren’t necessarily in the same time zone. Personally, I do leverage tools like Paper.li, but as an aggregation tool, not for the purpose of filler tweets.

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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

To begin with there are two types of customer interaction that you should measure and analyze: Consumers who find your website through social media: These consumers increase traffic to your website and since they come to the site qualified (with intent) they also proportionately increase conversions (eventual or immediate revenue).

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Social Media Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Corporate blogging has been with us for quite some time, with some major companies having forayed into the space in the early to mid 2000s. Or is it that there's a purpose that isn't served by blogs? "I But if you look at the growth over the last three years, the use of blogs has actually doubled (!). I was misinformed."

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While not necessarily a new site (it launched in beta in 2010), Pinterest is coming into its own with a female-dominated demographic that has rocketed past Etsy in membership and traffic. The results are uniquely crowd-sourced aggregations and classifications of content from across the Web. So Why Now? What Makes Pinterest Different?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 14, 2010

For this search engine optimization tip, let’s talk more about content and adding content to your web site. You would think that when planning a new web site or a totally new version of your web site that you can sit down, make a list of web pages, create the content, and forget about it. Web Sites that Rank Well Are Experts.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? that are irrelevant or profane), and enable site visitors to share comments back to their social networks without leaving your website. Another Cool Tool To Optimize Your Site Loading Speed by Daily Blog Tips. twebevent.

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Socialized

AUGUST 1, 2009

Technorati ’s new Twittorati (launched July 7, and not last week as some sites are reporting ) will feature tweets from what Technorati thinks are the top 100 bloggers. First, it assumes that the tweets of the top bloggers are as interesting as the their blog posts, never mind whether the blog posts are that interesting.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. Social Media 19% of the public regularly (7%) or sometimes (12%) get news or news headlines through social networking sites.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

CNN.com is soliciting user feedback by including a prominent survey link at the top of the page: It will be interesting to see how NewsPulse changes user behavior on the site over time. It has the potential to increase the number of stories read per visit, resulting in more page views and time on site.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 20, 2010

This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. They were simply aggregating content from around the web and pushing it through their Twitter stream. You get the point. They werent interacting with anyone. They werent saying anything.

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Twist Image

JUNE 24, 2013

Currently, he is curating and aggregating this amazing resource of information. Still an amazing magazine in print, the Fast Company web experience is an even more amazing wealth that also extends into sites like Co.CREATE , Co.DESIGN and Co.LABS. There are thousands of marketing blogs on the Internet. Media ReDEFined.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

But before we dismiss online and social media sources as nothing more than aggregators and promotion outlets, let’s remember that this study reflects the state of the news ecosystem today. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2011

What is the best way to drive traffic to my site? What’s the fastest way to generate traffic to my site? We all want to know the best way to drive the greatest amount of traffic to our sites. I’m not saying, “Don’t listen to experienced people who are successful in generating traffic to their site.”

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Publish informative, unique content – Sites are encouraged to produce strong original content as opposed to repurposing or duplicating stories Some other information: Story clusters (i.e. a group of articles on a particular topic) are ranked according to “aggregate editorial interest.” Adam Sherk August 9, 2010 at 8:42 am Thanks Amit.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Google saga today, as the Financial Times reports that discussions have taken place between News Corp and Microsoft on an exclusive deal with Bing that would lead to News Corp blocking its news sites (such as The Wall Street Journal ) from Google. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

If we want the most up to date News, then Digg or even Twitter provide immediate News. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. Adam Sherk January 20, 2010 at 4:30 pm It’s hard to argue with that. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. Review Analyst – ReviewAnalyst is a new tool that lets hotels take a proactive approach to user-generated hotel reviews, blogs, videos & images.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog. If so, how?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. A social media user might want to call people’s attention to a recent stumble, blog post, or website. You can share your thoughts with the world or link a blog post to have your followers read.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

Going back to the LiveScience.com example, a search today in Google using the exact headline “Amazon River Dated to 11 Million Years Old” brings up these top results: Another site becomes the de facto #1 through an embedded Google News result, followed by the Yahoo News syndicated article and then the LiveScience.com original.

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Laurel Papworth

MARCH 15, 2010

Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release : Monday, March 15, 2010. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. Twitter will be part of our favorite sites! I’m assuming it.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 17, 2022

And readers of your site likely have the same problem. Social bookmarking sites and apps make it easy to share content you find valuable and discover new trends. Social bookmarking sites are web-based tools, which means the content you save can be accessed from any device. Trending topics on Digg. Rank your content.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

To some extent publishers have to accept that they can’t have their cake and eat it too – if you’re going to license your content to other sites, there is always a chance that those sites might outrank you for that content. 4 comments… read them below or add one } Rahul July 16, 2009 at 6:53 am Hi Adam, Great post !

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

During my blogging over the past four years I have pointed several times previous to an article in The Economist from January 2006 titled The New Organization ( The way people work has changed dramatically, but the way their companies are organised lags far behind. . About | Contributor Bios | Blog Policy | Contact us. -->.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

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.? Gab Goldenberg and Steven Bradley came to the party and donated their site stats for analysis, thereby providing three data points for observable trends (along with my own site).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

You can set up your own blog. Just like Posterous, you can use Amplify as your primary blogging platform, as well as auto-post to your own blog. Ah, but does the image accompanying your blog post show up? Mark as read Approve comment S- Okay, now youve given me a blog idea. That’s really nice.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

The site has been around for a while but in recent weeks I have been seeing a lot of activity on my profile that I hadn’t seen before. They’ve brought their expertise to a slightly different area: social network aggregating. Users tell the feed which networks they belong to (Facebook, Digg, Last.fm Set it and forget it.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

A couple of years of ago, one could easily identify active users through blogs & discussion forums. Top Blogs Directory – The marketing & social media section in the directory of top Indian blogs. Social media Blogs in India – Prepared by Sampad, this is a list of social media blogs in India.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 13, 2010

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. You can easily kill multiple birds with one stone - automate your blog posts out on Twitter, which in turn sends your tweets to Facebook - but its important to not overdo it and run the risk of becoming a robot. Keep your #s, @s and RTs where they belong - on Twitter.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 9, 2009

There’s the web design, the web development, picking the right shopping cart, writing great copy for your site. I could go on and on about this, perhaps in another blog post, but selling stuff online and being successful means that you need to target the people who are looking for what you’re offering. Post this on Diigo.

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Myrland Marketing

JULY 26, 2010

by Nancy Myrland on July 26, 2010 A while back, while reading David Meerman Scott’s blog post about all of the bad PR pitches he receives, one of his points struck me as very important, and one all of us who communicate, or teach others to communicate, need to remember. It doesn’t matter if you think of one, two or even ten.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well. Submit your blog to blog directories. lots of sitewide sidebar and footer links.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

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