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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). We pause for 10 minutes, and when we return, the class asks questions or makes comments, to which Professor Jutras responds. I see this seminar as a blog.

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23 Reactions to the New Digg, and It's Not Good » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. Is there any?

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Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content for Social Media.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It allows for Facebook widgets, mashups, and more. (For Jobster, a career search network that I personally don’t have experience with, this is going to be a huge as more employers sign up with them to reach out to a greater candidate base than ever before.) Facebook has its own API. What does this mean?

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s say I am a competitor of the guy behind the blue widget factory (@BlueWidgets) because I own red widgets. Or let’s say I’m doing promotion for the movie “New Moon&# and might want to see who is following Peter Facinelli on Twitter since they probably would be interested in this Twitter account too.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Delicious – collect news links that feed into my blog, because WordPress.com has a widget for it. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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SMX West '08 Recap: Takeaways, Shout Outs, and Pictures

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

due to the search engines’ inability to parse through this kind of data as efficiently as text. My favorite session by far ( sorry, Rebecca ) was the Generation Google session.