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Social Media Tools, Apps, Resources and Plugins

Harp Interactive

Twhirl: Twhirl, like HootSuite and Tweetdeck is a social software desktop client and is useful for managing multiple twitter accounts. cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. Alltop is a blog aggregator which can be searched by subject matter.

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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. If you have a software application and people follow your product, by all means, set up a Twitter feed and let your users subscribe! Your mileage may vary. Twitter as a news breaker. This, too, is useful. Answers Yahoo!

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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. Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start. Microformats – Web content will have more machine-readable markup and UGC (like reviews) will be aggregated into larger sites/services.

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

Buzz Marketing for Technology

However, I was able to aggregate many of the pieces I had coming into the course as my students worked on the class project: an online conference on nanotechnology. Many times, I did not even have access to sites because of the blocks on the classroom internet (this happened with the pageflakes software). June 12, 2008 5:01 AM.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At the same time, the concept of “free&# is empowering individuals to become publishers, as any individual can now harness free software online to create his/her little on place on the web. Today, Facebook or MySpace will help you locate lost family or reunite with old friends. Hope springs eternal, I guess. Answers Yahoo!

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I loved FB because it wasn’t myspace and wasn’t full of junk, spam and porn and when it opened to everyone, i was afraid it would become just like that. I think people opted for FB over MySpace because of so many of the reasons people are becoming disenchanted with FB right now. This reminds me of Myspace 3 years ago.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Special Thanks A special thanks must go out to Gab Goldenberg of SEO ROI and business card design software , along with Steven Bradley of Van SEO Design. Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data. Their valuable input allowed real insights to be made into the topic. Answers Yahoo!