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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. Don’t track data to individuals. I am going to boycott Facebook for now.

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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. A useful tool for getting the latest news from your favorite sites and blogs, which you can use as a reference for blog posts, new ideas and outbound links.

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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). All three sites at the centerr of this analysis sit within the online marketing and search industry. Three cheers for them!

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The 33 most important moments in the history of social media The first social media site was born (1997) On one of the first true social media sites, SixDegrees.com , you could set up a profile page, create lists of connections, and send messages within networks. Hot or Not (2000) Who can forget AmIHotorNot.com ?

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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. Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis. Social Media sites give us a tool to accomplish that. Again, by no means is this new.

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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. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Soon-to-be sophomore and official Yale blogger, Sam Jackson , puts this concept to work on his own site, where he blogs about higher education marketing trends. Speaking of Facebook, the site makes it easy to be private - you must have a.edu email address to blog here. One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed.

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