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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 You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

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What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. YouTube and Twitter also seem to be losing ground with influencers. YouTube Under Fire for Children’s Privacy. Twitter Can’t Escape Bots.

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

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Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. Users generate Karma when they get positive votes, Karma which can be used as an indicator of how much value that user is adding to the community. click for larger image). click for larger image). An Example.

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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way. It’s also a conversation medium.

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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. That’s what’s new: a significant leap in efficiency. Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media.

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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. The community had to react.

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