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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Your mileage may vary. Twitter as a news breaker. This, too, is useful. link] Thanks again.

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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. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. It’s also a conversation medium.

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First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning

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ve set it up, your RSS reader will aggregate all of the new posts on those fantastic blogs in one place â?? Britt (21:01:38) : Kim: You already noted my one addition, which is the tie in between blogs, twitter, and delicious, all linked through RSS. Lijit Search. Once youâ??ve like an e-mail inbox for websites and blogs.

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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. Microformats – Web content will have more machine-readable markup and UGC (like reviews) will be aggregated into larger sites/services. Again, by no means is this new.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! We would need a test where identical articles are stumbled and sphinned and see the stats that way.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? I would see no reason why someone addicted enough to Digg wouldn’t crank out a handy well written script to aggregate this data. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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