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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. I am going to boycott Facebook for now. “even when partners send them to Facebook&# ??

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. It also integrates well with social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Picasa. After all Facebook and blogging go hand in hand.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities.

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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. Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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). And the data provides a very strong indication that users from niche networks spends far more time consuming content. Oh, because you have charts and data!

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, Facebook could eat the web. In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. Don’t use a Facebook Group. Your Facebook Page should be created under your primary Facebook login.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How are you getting that data?&# It’s time for that list to die, and not for Chris Finke to do that but for Digg to actually prevent that data from being pulled. I also have doubts that blocking the submitter data would even work, because of the API. Is the only problem the fact that they make scraping the data possible?

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