Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. But are they secure? Thanks for fixing incoming shouts.

Digg 100

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

It’s a lot noisier without risk factors involved: it’s harder to really follow every single Plurk from a person, whereas in Twitter, you can read everything in one page (as you can see, I’ve primarily exercised caution with my Tweets).

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

I am not sure that represents influence or anything else, however I think the point of the exercise is not to look for an empirical truism, but to make the point that today anyone can reach out and have an impact. I am not sure that represents influence. I checked my ranking and found I am placed in the 1st row of 58.

Social Media 251

Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old. Board Reader.

Analysis 82

Analysis Quantcast Data StumbleUpon 82

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Social Networks. A How-to Guide for Submitting Content to Fark : Chances are if you’re reading this, you may never see the need to submit something to Fark, a social news site for funny/odd news. Summary: network (the verb). Here’s the type of content that works.

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