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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. Twitter as a news breaker. If you just want top news, CNN Breaking News works quite well. Your mileage may vary. This, too, is useful. Twitter can indeed satisfy many goals. Yeah, I thought so.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. I was reading a recent interview with Andrew , who built the application out of a passion and a need — I don’t think anything like Quizlet exists anywhere else.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly Still not sure how to take action on this rule of thumb?

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tweet Spinner is a powerful application that manages the more high level management Twitter tasks for you, from managing followers/friends to changing your profile design and then some. If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. Fortunately, Tweet Spinner is here to help.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why is it that these web applications allow users to rate an article before they’re even forwarded to it? While the problem doesn’t solely lie on the shoulders of the developers who have been implementing the tools in these web applications, the responsibility for accurately monitoring true interest in submissions does.

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A Review of the New Digg Images and Universal Taxonomy.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, I’m not complaining about the new changes — at all. In fact, the new Digg pictures launch has been bunched up with other great features that I’m quite happy about. Thanks guys. I bet that Mixx (especially the pressure on TechCrunch) had much to do with it.

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