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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? The numbers would be a lot more representative if this approach was implemented, and the incentive to have users gaming these systems would be substantially diminished. This is a win-win approach. Does that make more sense?

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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. You can also set a specific follower-to-following ratio, and if you exceed this point, the system will stop following any additional users.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. Twitter went about this in the right way and it’s opened up a host of new applications, tools, and scripts. Which can be used as – a part of – a checklist, when developing the ultimate microblogging application.

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Mixxing In, and Why Early Adoption is Important: A Review of the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. I naturally selected the “Photo&# option.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. Reddit and Mixx , on the other hand, live on a karma system.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The value to me (although I don’t know if a lot of people are actively doing it) is the ability for me to vote on what you think is applicable to you. It may not be a perfect system, but it’s interesting enough to follow for awhile, and see how it pans out. Read that again if it didn’t make sense. Great article.

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