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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. Why is it that these web applications allow users to rate an article before they’re even forwarded to it? I think the big issue here is more about sites with snippets of text.

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StumbleUpon Etiquette Guide and Best Practices

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So maybe some SU self-promoters consider someone subscribing to them on StumbleUpon similar to being subscribed to via RSS, email, etc. – they believe the subscriber subscribes because they do want updates from that person’s site, just like a RSS feed would deliver only updates from their site. I think you’re right.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z ยป Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Regardless of the many years of experience you have in the online space, the ideas behind social media and social media marketing are applicable to everyone. Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. Let me port my RSS feed to it and be done with it!&#

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse โ€“ A Guide on What and How to Monitor

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Talkwalker offers an enterprise-monitoring solution but it also has a free alerts application. You cannot monitor Facebook, Twitter and other social networks but you can monitor forums, blogs etc. Meltwater is a general monitoring solution that also has social media management capability. Talkwalker [Alerts are Free].

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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Click on the “Application Settings&# link for that subsection, and another popover dialog will appear. FBML stands for “Facebook Markup Language&# , and is meant to be a shortcut for use in Facebook applications. Facebook has also enabled the use of a subset of FBML in the Static FBML application. Any wise words?

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. And I do get an RSS feed from FriendFeed for content matching my search criteria. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How I Grew My RSS Subscription Count by 243% (Quick Sprout): Neil Patel offers some really good actionable web design tweaks that brought him an increased number of RSS subscribers. News Search Engine Optimization Tips You Should Know (Online Marketing Blog): I think that Lee Odden is onto something with these questions and answers.

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