Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

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. What can you learn about me?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 21, 2011

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. Tumblr is also known as the “other&# microblogging service, which thankfully didn’t follow Twitter’s path and remained true to what it was created for.

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2007

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. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. It’s so easy to Mutiny.

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APRIL 6, 2023

For example, the PLATO system, developed by the University of Illinois in 1970, had many features of an early social media network but was largely used in academia. It wasn’t until a couple of months later, that the #SanDiegoFire hashtag was sparked to aggregate tweets and updates about the California wildfires.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Some people have resorted to gaming that system.

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