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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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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. Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. Your mileage may vary. Go with both.

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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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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. Again, by no means is this new. Of course, Ron Paul’s supporters were very active on social media sites and they didn’t get the results they wanted.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Thanks for your comments. I agree with your opinion.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The aim of my little experiment was to test the assumption that search traffic was of a higher quality than social media traffic. Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. Reply Justin December 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm Well said!

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

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. 25 Comments. Social media. Whether youre socializing on Facebook , updating Twitter , or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia , social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed.

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