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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. Alterian SM2.

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MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Bill Hartzer

Social Connections has released MashedIn.com , an application that allows you to identify mutual connections across multiple social networks. MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook , Twitter , or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget owner.

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8 Basic Yet Necessary Tools or Plugins for your Site

Idaconcpts

First, let’s see how effective a good widget or app can be. A customized app like this is a great way to increase traffic to your website through the power of social media- naturally, this could be your next step. This handy widget makes embedding a form simple and intuitive. Share this on Technorati.

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Huffington Post Sells for $315m Social Media Revenue

Laurel Papworth

I often write on social media revenue – how social media sites like blogs and forums and social networks monetize. Yes, Virginia, social media and blogs CAN make money. Will 2010 see the further rise of social media proprietors? Social Media Monetization: Craigslist hits $100m (4).

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. Online social media services provide scope for members to donate time, resources and money how and when they want. With traditional media.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Yes, Virginia, social media and blogs CAN make money. Will 2010 see the further rise of social media proprietors? It’s usually said in a tone that implies that social media is so gosh- darn “social&# and “friendly&# that everyone gives everything away for free. Related posts.