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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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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. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Your mileage may vary. Twitter as a news breaker.

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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. I actually think the links are coming from Digg and StumbleUpon.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s get ready to rumble… Generic network: StumbleUpon : In the blue corner we have Stumbleupon – one of the largest social bookmarking sites on the web. While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case.

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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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65 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Make a MySpace page for your blog. Submit your RSS feed to RSS aggregators. Take that and submit it to RSS directories and aggregators. Answer questions related to your niche on YahooAnswers and other Q & A sites.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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? I would see no reason why someone addicted enough to Digg wouldn’t crank out a handy well written script to aggregate this data. Problem solved.&# Answers Yahoo!

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