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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. Tagged as: communication , facebook , Internet , microblogging , social media , twitter { 4 trackbacks } Pour la promotion du cne extreme, devenez ralisateur et crez un film. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. Let’s keep at it folks.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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LinkedIn “in the Black” (2006) In sharp contrast to other networks, LinkedIn was the first to offer users paid premium packages. Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. and really set the tone for future tweets. My, how times have(n’t) changed!)

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Microformats – Web content will have more machine-readable markup and UGC (like reviews) will be aggregated into larger sites/services. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. We would need a test where identical articles are stumbled and sphinned and see the stats that way. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.