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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. Answers Yahoo!

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I still use Stumbleupon but I get frustrated with its slowness. Digg posters tend to be second only to the people who comment on YouTube videos in terms of the immature drivel they produce. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca So its obviously my connection. Answers Yahoo!

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook How to Create Rich HTML Tabs on Your Facebook Page (10e20): I know Jesse just contributed an awesome article on this blog but Victor’s guide here is also pretty good. Are Your Facebook Fans Truly Engaged? It’s good to know that there are ways to bring Facebook community closer together. Think again!

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Kevin Rose is Digg's Biggest Hypocrite » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I now present you with … Infraction #2 : On October 31st, my friend Erik created a Facebook group for Digg fans which was inspired by the extremely popular (3241 Diggs as of this writing) Digg story about how Stephen Colbert’s Facebook group was the fastest growing ever. The URL now is dead. Probably.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis. Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It does not list links to her various websites, however from time to time she would post links to recent posts on her StumbleUpon blog, many of which are also featured on her business website, Whispy.com , a portal which offers a wide variety of spiritual and psychic services. it isn’t easy, but it is worth the effort.