Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

You can add RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, personalize it with custom themes, and even view your Gmail inbox, all in one place. Almost all blogs have some form of RSS feed that syndicates their content out on the web. Recent comments Recent comments Related articles Feature Friday: Why Violating Copyrights on YouTube is Good.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 12, 2011

This time around, instead of embedding multiple screenshots of people’s responses from a random moment in time, I introduce a social media tool called Storify — which enables sharing of tweets, Facebook updates, Youtube videos, Flickr photos, and other social content — to tell a story.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

You can add RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, personalize it with custom themes, and even view your Gmail inbox, all in one place. Almost all blogs have some form of RSS feed that syndicates their content out on the web. iGoogle is an Ajax-based personal web portal. How to add RSS feeds to iGoogle. You don't have to move.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 16, 2010

If you upload photos to Flickr and videos to YouTube and documents to Scribd and Slideshare and Posterous, people will definitely come. See, you can create as many fancy websites that make your heart content. If you create a Twitter account, people will come. But here are another three secret words: People Might Come.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Speaking of video, there are many companies that can help you create a viral video on YouTube so those views go up quickly. Sneak Preview of IMHO: A New Social Content Player. Video is your friend. Send videos in those email messages. You’ll want to meet with them in person.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2011

Provide interesting content! By far the greatest way to gain new followers is naturally; if you provide content that people want to read and share, people will inevitably follow you. People automatically assume that re-tweeted users are users who provide quality content and are more likely to follow you as a result.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 7, 2010

How many videos do you watch on YouTube, songs listened on iTunes, pictures viewed on Flickr? What percentage of the content you are capturing and reading and watching online all day are you retaining when you awake the next morning? How many tweets? How many Facebook wall posts?

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 4, 2010

I wonder if she creates a video and uploads it to YouTube after every blog post, too. And most blogs that do well have a single theme and the audience can depend on the theme dictating the content of the blog. It seemed smart: more content means more traffic, and more traffic is good. And Flickr is good for expressing passion.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 19, 2011

Salman Khan quit his high paying finance job to start making YouTube videos from his closet that teach students everything from 1 + 1 to advanced calculus and college-level science. The main point here is that it is the substance of the content that has earned Khan over 40 million YouTube views, not the style.

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