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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.

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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. And these three social networks, which were based on very similar concepts, predated the Facebook that we know and love today. or to actually give the social network a fair chance.

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The Most Buried News Sites on Digg

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. By contrast Telegraph.co.uk

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is no less true for the world of social networks. 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. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

What types of stories gained traction (or were buried) on social news sites like Digg and Reddit? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. What types of stories got the most retweets? What generated the most “likes” and comments on your Facebook Page?

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

But I wouldn’t have expected Digg to be a strong second, since the social news site is known for sending large spikes of visitors that quickly scan the page and then move on. It’s also important to note that while search engine visitors may be less loyal their volume is much greater, especially visitors from Google.

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