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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches FB Newswire, Acquires Motion Tracking App Moves

The Realtime Report

Facebook launches a newswire so it can help the media — while it competes with them - the FB Newswire is designed to give media outlets and journalists a realtime feed of news-worthy content; the service debuted on Thursday and is partially powered by social news verification service Storyful (GigaOM).

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. Is it even possible? We can say that it is.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, not only does your blog need to stand out from the average ones that are popping up every day, but you also need to compete with established blogs, with their loyal fan bases, that have been around for years. The trouble is, with so much competition out there, your blog really has to stand out from the crowd.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media (Search Engine Journal): I love how Jennifer Horowitz equates social media with the 7 sins. Breakdown: 4 Ways Brands are Earning — and Buying — Followers on Twitter (Web Strategist): Jeremiah Owyang explores the Twitter space to see how followers are being earned (or not) on Twitter.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Generally, these sites exist in the form of graphic design contest web sites where clients put up a call for submissions for a piece of graphic design work, and designers compete for a cash prize by submitting designs. Most recently, the site launched a co-branded version of their service for Best Buy. social networking.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old. Compete Details. As you can see from the screenshot above, Compete has registered around 3.2

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail. For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky.