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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

As Facebook struggles to find its monetization strategy, there are some exciting companies that have stepped forward to meet a different set of social needs (and in some cases, pick up the slack where Facebook has stumbled): Connecting on mobile. Cutting through the crap. Networking.

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Free Content Is Killing Media (And Advertising)

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Ultimately, Sorrell feels like AOL overpaid for this property - especially considering that it's just "an aggregator of other people's content," and that if the general public has an appetite for quality journalism, it may well have to look towards the government to fund it. content aggregator. journalism.

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A Walk Through Twitter’s Walled Garden

The Realtime Report

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told The Wall Street Journal that the company wants to move away from companies that “ build off of Twitter, to a world where people build into Twitter.” Once you’re in the advertising business, you’re in the audience aggregation business. Reach equals revenue.

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Content Is Everywhere - The Changing Tide Of The Internet

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Here's what Arianna Huffington had to say about the acquisition of her company to AOL: "AOL's Patch.com covers 800 towns across America, providing an incredible infrastructure for citizen journalism in time for the 2012 election, and a focus on community and local solutions that have been an integral part of HuffPost's DNA. you name it).

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

The mark consists of a blue geometric design consisting of two loops, and the word META in black.”). Trademark number 97097363. Goods and Services Description.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Week 4-- Aggregators and RSS Feeds. Then move to mobile application, etc. PLE aggregates and stores content so that the learner can create own content. It means aggregating, networking, filtering and feeding forward the info to other connections in the network. Professional Development Practice: The One Sentence Journal.

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Report recommending 'Google Tax' seems rather confused

The Way of the Web

Apparently 100+ local and regional newspapers vanished last year: “The advent of free newspapers, the emergence of 24-hour television news and the popularisation of online and mobile platforms have all contributed to a far more volatile and unstable environment for news organisations.” link] Is the eBook, the end of the library? [.]

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