Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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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Web Lead Tracking Explained: How to Get High Quality Leads with the Internet

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Beyond providing aggregated referral data, tracking services can supply you with a recording of every phone call. When a visitor fills out a form, the referring site information is attached to the form. The service provider collects the data and supplies analytics. Now you know where your form leads are coming from.

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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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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. It thrives among people who want to know those small pieces of information about others or little bits of news and quick updates. Your mileage may vary. Twitter as a news breaker. This, too, is useful.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This crowdsourced, automated method of discovering popular content was a drastic improvement in how we found interesting information and media on a daily basis. This change in content consumption and the viral features introduced by many web companies has now created an overabundance of information which in many cases is no better than spam.

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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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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I never knew a list like this existed; with lists like such people almost participate strictly for the “status&# which takes away from the whole point of sharing useful information with like minded individuals. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? There’s no real community in Digg.

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