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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react. Completely.

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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. 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. I am enjoying Stumble lately, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. 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. Similarly, Michael Twittered during SES in April.

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yMarketingMatters

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Twitter is full of people with things to say, and you can listen! Twitter is meant not so much for friends and family but for people you actually want to communicate with. Twitter has proved its worth in recent years as a platform for breaking news. Twitter is also a great way to connect with your customers.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since I’ve been comparing major news sites in variety of areas ( Facebook and Twitter impact; YouTube and new Digg activity; site speed and domain authority , among others) I thought I’d look at overall social media engagement too. CNN, BBC News, Yahoo News, The Guardian and The Huffington Post form the next tier.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. Is that even professional?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. 2) I also did not find a channel for Yahoo! News or AOL News although there is a general channel for Yahoo! that does include some news videos.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

UPDATE: After Mike’s comment below I added Yahoo! Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo! UPDATE: Adding Yahoo! Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey { 3 comments… read them below or add one } Mike April 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm Any reason you’re ignoring the leader of the pack?

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Laurel Papworth

MARCH 15, 2010

Twitter just announced @anywhere platform – notice who is missing? Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release : Monday, March 15, 2010. When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. and YouTube.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. It should be noted that there many forms of real-time search, including Twitter Search itself and sites like OneRiot , Collecta and Topsy , among others.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 3, 2010

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , In fact, Yahoo! There’s some issue with the real-time feed data that is causing Google and Yahoo! I have seen this happen before with other sites like Twitter. Post this on Diigo.

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 17, 2010

First, they began by promoting the latest video with a number of tweets, to ensure it was seen by many: And then they fired a warning shot across the bow via the @OldSpice Twitter account, lest anyone question what they were up to: And what happened next made all the difference between the past and the future of viral campaigns.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. Which Twitter profiles built up the most followers and engagement? What types of stories got the most retweets?

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tips & Guides Mashable – Twitter Lists, Resources & How-Tos [link] How To Blog: A Beginner?s s Guide to SEO [link] Methods of website linking [link] Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit [link] Web analytics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [link] My list of tips for getting the most out of Twitter [link] ?Meme?

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Here are some stats released in Chitika’s report: Search Share: Impressions August September October Google 81.80% 84.19% 84.99% Yahoo! 9.08% 7.73% 7.26% Bing 6.76% 5.76% 5.44% (Based on a sample of 579,555,134 impressions across the Chitika network) Search Share: Unique Users August September October Google 79.86% 82.87% 83.82% Yahoo!

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Twist Image

JANUARY 8, 2011

When someone asks, "what's the next Twitter ?" Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. Here's a great example: Someone asked: What do people at Twitter think of Facebook? " more often than not, there is not a response.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Honestly, I have not seen so many social media experts flock to a social media web site since all of my social media and search engine marketing buddies flocked to Twitter. The main difference between Yahoo! Answers and Quora.com is that Quora.com has a much more serious tone to it than Yahoo! Share this on del.icio.us.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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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. Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood.

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Writtent Blog

JUNE 17, 2014

Encourage Multiple Networks… Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are no doubt the big 3 of social networking, but that doesn’t mean they are the only networks that should have share buttons in your blog design. Buttons for Yahoo! Instead, the buttons are stuck somewhere way beneath a post or an author bio. Neat, huh?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Related posts: A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? It’s the most common place to find fluff in a release, and they tend to be largely ignored. Watch and judge for yourself.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

Measuring the ROI of social media is challenging for several reasons, the most significant of which is the problem of “last click attribution;&# just because a sale or lead “came from&# Twitter or Facebook as the last click doesn’t necessarily mean that site deserves all the credit. Influence: a.k.a. Share this on Bebo.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Analysis: Top 100 Twitter Users Analysis: Top 100 Twitter Users Written by Glen, this post has 24 Comments In terms of traffic, I feel like Twitter is becoming a sort of hybrid between Digg of a few years ago and StumbleUpon. That’s a lot of traffic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Marquerite Buley January 25, 2010 at 6:40 pm I just started using Twitter not too long ago, since then I’ve begun to love it. What started out as a hatred for Twitter it’s allowed me to network with people in my business alot easier. News and updates happen in quickly which makes for a great social communication app.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

And take a look at the comparison of referrals in verticals from Facebook and Twitter: Vertical. Top 20 Traffic Sources to Content Pages. AOL/Huffington Post. Drudge Report. StumbleUpon. FoxNews.com. MediaTakeOut. NewsNow.co.uk. Real Clear Politics. Includes Bing Live.com. Key changes. Home & Lifestyle. Entertainment. Recreation.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Don’t forget to follow Samir on Twitter. I just wish we could cookie users on Facebook and Twitter so I could track their conversions… maybe one day! Specially Google, Yahoo and Msn. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

When should I use Digg ? How are small and large companies using Twitter , and how can I do the same? How can I navigate the millions of questions on Yahoo! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo! How do I craft a corporate strategy for blogging ?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! These technologies include Browse My Stuff (which powers both the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ) and Paper.li , which enables users to create custom online “newspapers&# based on a Twitterer and his/her followers, a hashtag subject or a Twitter list.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 16, 2008

Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 25, 2011

From there, make sure that your presence is search-optimized on the “big four&# social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Businesses that primarily serve a specific geographic area will want to have a complete and up-to-date profile in key local directories including Google, Bing and Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts.

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