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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. You never know until you check out their feed. Perhaps they’re insomniacs. It’s also a conversation medium.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. Some of those tactics may seem more vile than others, but a dangerous reality exists that no one is talking about — with social networks comes theft, and very little pay off for content creators.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, the lack of follow-through was unsettling enough that I am publishing this post. It’s not advisable for me to publish this post without rereading and seeing if there’s anything I need to edit. Every time I publish a post, I proofread it at least a dozen times. Say you’re sorry.

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No, You Can't Automate Social Media!

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Despite the fact that he had over 50,000 Twitter followers, his entire feed was a broadcast. Their social media efforts were spearheaded by a guy who looks like a nice dude, but after studying his personal Twitter feed, it was almost the same kind of thing: the process was almost wholly automated.

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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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