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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0.

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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 can easily determine if your friends are interested in marketing, photography, books, music, web 2.0

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The major “Web 2.0″ ″ and social networking technologies that have been created in the last several years have been a major boon for consumers and web users. It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. It’s why songs like this translate to tweets , remixes , and playoff game invitations. It’s why I laugh every time at this BBC Guy Kewney Goma mix-up (and even posted about it once before).

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Tamar Weinberg is a Media Snacker » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? My friends, do you respect media snackers?

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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.