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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #195

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"Is crowdsourcing good? Move over, small-time Bitcoin exchange startups--Wall Street has arrived - ArsTechnica. For my dollar, my time and my personal growth, nothing has ever come close to TED (with the exception of the Google Zeitgeist event - which also helps me rethink everything). crowdsourcing. crowdsourcing.

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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

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Google Alerts. Almost everyone is familiar with the magic of Google alerts, but are you truly using them to your full advantage? Quora is 2013’s answer to the crowdsourced question-and-answer forum. © Artlover | Dreamstime Stock Photos & Stock Free Images. Remember Yahoo Answers?

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The first major step forward was with Google which organized the Internet so that anyone could run accurate searches on specific topics they found interesting. This crowdsourced, automated method of discovering popular content was a drastic improvement in how we found interesting information and media on a daily basis.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Her varied background includes corporate roles (B2B and B2C), agencies, non-profits and startups. Emily is Chief Technology Officer at Bookigee, an early-stage startup that builds online analytics and marketing applications for the Book Publishing Industry, in Miami. She’s a rock star on Twitter and also speaks French.

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The 21 Best Content Curation Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Google Review Count: 350. Google Review Count: 346. Google Review Count: 342. Google Review Count: 323. Google Review Count: 289. Google Review Count: 272. 1) Storify. Create and source user-generated content fast with simultaneous collaboration. Ideal for live blogs, breaking events, and conferences.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free.

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