A lot of the apps and web services that come across the desk lately have to do with consolidation and aggregation. In fact, back in April there was a pretty good post in Social Media Today on 7 social media aggregation tools that you should use that caught my eye. Social media sites that are currently supported include, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and Flickr. Linkedin is a business networking network and Live Messenger is say for your customers or something like that. There’s an assumption that we need consolidation and aggregation. MORE >>

Personally, I do leverage tools like Paper.li, but as an aggregation tool, not for the purpose of filler tweets. Share this on LinkedIn Share this on Tumblr Share this on del.icio.us Blogs Facebook Featured Humor LinkedIn People Social Twitter Workplace YouTube best practices cartoon social media social networking strategy tipsI recently participate in an Twitter chat where the conversation turned to whether or not it’s a good idea to automate social media activities. These are just my preferences, though. Do you automate your social media activities? Cheers! MORE >>

Today saw the launch of a new job search engine Adzuna , which integrates Facebook and LinkedIn contacts to help job hunters get ahead of the competition. Adzuna works by aggregating existing job postings from sites such as Monster , TotalJobs and LinkedIn , which in itself is a great time-saver for job hunters. Where Adzuna really shines though is by “connecting&# your LinkedIn and Facebook contacts, helping you get the most from your friends and connections on both social networks. So how does it work? Not for the time being. Absolutely. MORE >>

The Steve Rubel Stream Edit Delete Autopost 27 Aug 2009 Lifestreaming: Evolving the Model from Import and Aggregate to Hub and Spokes Lifestreaming started out initially as a model that revolved around importation and aggregation: a place to roll-up all your streams. Thats the true model for syndication and aggregation of conversations related to social objects. use the above Hubs to populate my Spokes: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, BrightKite, Plurk, Laconi.ca, Identi.ca, Bebo, Flickr, Posterous, Linkedin and LastFM. But that's changing. Hopkins said. Period. MORE >>

Not to mention LinkedIn , Amplify, and Quora…you get the picture. just ran across a story in Springwise about  Whoopaa , The new service can integrate with users’ Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, presenting them all on one site. With the increasing importance attached to online identity, both in personal and business terms, the demand for aggregators has seen no shortage of contenders. FaceBook LinkedIn My Creative Team Social Media Twitter content marketing Facebook linkedin networking social mediaPhoto: Copyright 2001 Columbia Pictures. MORE >>