Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

Digg 100

Digg Review Web 2.0 Upcoming 100

Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Community blogging sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat.

Types 145

Types Social Media Microblogging Overview 145

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo. That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves.

Digg 100

Digg Reddit Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

I want to roll the clock back a few weeks to the announcement of an initiative by Facebook called – Project Titan. Well first that means that Facebook will issue 400 Million email account – which is no small feat. Second those email accounts will be tied to your Facebook profile Vanity URL in my case PaulDunay@facebook.com.

System 219

System B2B Facebook Marketing 219

Idaconcpts

MAY 4, 2011

Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. The Problem with Digg.

Reddit 157

Reddit Digg Aggregator Journal 157

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

The New Community Rules talks about the important role social media has begun playing in our lives. Fortunately, we have social media communities to inspire us. Access to these social media communities is free. How do I make a killer Facebook page? When should I use Digg ? The best part?

Communities 170

Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo 170

The Marketing Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

02 am Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) Jump to Comments With over 40,000 tweets per minute and new-user registration growth rate of 1500%, you would expect Twitter to give a close fight to the social networking giant Facebook. In that poll there were 5000 + votes with the community voting in favor of Facebook.

Comparison 222

Comparison Twitter Web 2.0 Facebook 222

The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

47 pm Facebook and India Jump to Comments Our team recently made a visual presentation which talks about ‘Facebook’ and its penetration in India. Alltop Social Media said: Facebook and India [link] Social-Media.alltop [.] We have tried to cover some interesting insights via the presentation. We would be glad to help.

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Alltop Web 2.0 Facebook Startup 127

The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

45 pm Facebook will surge ahead in India Jump to Comments I was just reading an interesting news-story, published in today’s edition of Economic times. It compares Facebook & Orkut in India. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com , predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut.

Web 2.0 145

Web 2.0 Facebook Startup Comparison 145

The Marketing Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Home About In the Media New Job Opening Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur April 18, 2010.3:47 47 pm Facebook & India Jump to Comments This is a statistical post, which collates data from various blog-posts, press-releases and news sites. Some pointers YOY Growth – No. growth in India.

Facebook 167

Facebook Web 2.0 Startup Press Release 167

Laurel Papworth

APRIL 26, 2011

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Unless they go off and create an anti-community such as Dell Hell, alert the Press and continue to pursue their point of view. Law as bullying tactic rarely works, it just incenses the community. How about a bitchy tweet on Twitter?

Communities 112

Communities Comments Badge Airlines 112

The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About In the Media Building a People Centric Organization A Study on How Business Entities in India are Using Facebook September 7, 2010.5:43 When it comes to Facebook, the social networking platform is no different. Your brand has a Facebook fan page and you have a bunch of folks who like your company’s official ‘Facebook’ page.

Facebook 185

Facebook Web 2.0 Startup Applications 185

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? So what should NBA teams be doing on Twitter and Facebook?

Team 179

Team Twitter Facebook Press Release 179

The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2007

47 am News from Other Blogs Jump to Comments Vogue’s India Launch Click to Read. Read here Bathroom Blogfest 2007 Read here The comment contest winner Read here Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under News Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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News Web 2.0 Startup FeedBurner 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. Facebook is like Classmates.com.

MySpace 102

MySpace Facebook Web 2.0 Yahoo 102

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

Which is why I prefer to have my communications group work with them much like they have always worked with the media. An Advocate is an individual we know perhaps via social media that tweets about Avaya or retweets about news coming from Avaya. Share this on Facebook. I draw a hard line between Influencers and Advocates.

Influencer 194

Influencer B2B Marketing Wikipedia 194

Mindjumpers

JULY 15, 2010

Simple but effective use of social media The first Old Spice videos provoked a lot of comments on various social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and so on. Of course the Old Spice guy also has a Twitter profile and Facebook Page. It’s a simple idea, but is creating a lot of buzz and PR.

Campaign 206

Campaign Social Media Reddit Disqus 206

SocMed Sean

JANUARY 8, 2012

60% of those going online have visited a social network, with half going back everyday according to Facebook. 60% of those going online have visited a social network, with half going back everyday according to Facebook. Consumers don’t trust traditional marketing channels as much as they do their friends and families.

Social Media 235

Social Media Marketing Social Networking Nielsen 235

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. Listen Now. Why did it fail?

Digg 113

Digg Communities MySpace YouTube 113

Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS.

Influencer 85

Influencer Digg Social Networking Communities 85

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

On the other hand, if you seek alternatives to traditional market research, then you need a vendor that specializes in sentiment capture and community analysis. All listening platforms collect data from numerous online sources — news sites, blogs, and other Web sites. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

B2B 225

B2B Platform Social Media Marketing 225

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. It introduces your brand Is your company new? It tells you what they like …and what they don’t like.

Social Media 269

Social Media Strategy StumbleUpon Digg 269

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. Even just a year ago the majority of news sites were barely dabbling with things like Twitter – now most have Twitter mania.

Hitwise 124

Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey 124

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 2, 2008

Facebook Vs. MySpace (and LinkedIn). Introducing LinkedIn News & the redesigned home page. Announcing LinkedIn News. Detroit News film criti. Community Guidelines. QuickList ( 0 ). Site: Home. What is LinkedIn? Rate: 1 ratings Sign in to rate. Views: 288. watch in standard quality. watch in high quality.

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OpenSocial YouTube LinkedIn MySpace 276

SocMed Sean

JANUARY 21, 2012

Start a Facebook page just so “we can have a Facebook page. Hand social media activities over to a junior staff member or intern with no communications experience. The good news is, if you can add and subtract, you can succeed in social. –Sean Share this on Facebook Tweet This! They aren’t.

Social Media 280

Social Media Tumblr StumbleUpon Digg 280

Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age. The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. It’s a collection of observations and links to other observations.

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Twitter Nielsen Forums Digg 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Oblivion If you are an expert on a subject matter, you should know the latest news, findings, and opinions about it. People often advance themselves as a technical expert on a brand, but seem unaware when that brand is in the news for having a defect or a major product announcement. Thanks, James! the person.

Brands 236

Brands Handbook MySpace Construction 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time.

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Yahoo 131

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

MySpace 114

MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A common mistake in social media is that companies will dive right in, setting up a Twitter account or Facebook page and blasting out tweets and status updates about their latest company news and new product announcements—and then wonder why their Twitter following isn’t growing and there’s no interaction on their Facebook page.

SM2 189

SM2 Alterian Social Media Influencer 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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. And for that reason, you should join–now. See the surge?

Review 102

Review Digg StumbleUpon Web 2.0 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

Aggregator 151

Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

How do you get your news? In the past I have variously read newspapers, watched TV news bulletins, read news.bbc.co.uk and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. Now it seems I get most of my news from Twitter. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number.

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Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

The reason is that most powerhouse social media sites like Facebook and YouTube put a small piece of code called ‘the no follow’ tag into most areas of their site. Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. An article submission site in the Digg vein.

Hubpages 167

Hubpages Digg Foursquare Repository 167

Myrland Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense SOCIAL MEDIA: ARE FACEBOOK GAMES DRIVING YOU CRAZY? 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

Facebook 93

Facebook Applications WordPress Technorati 93

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Share this on Facebook. Instead, they want to connect. Rich Meyer.

Review 152

Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152