Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

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. What can you learn about me? Perhaps they’re insomniacs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

I contacted the agency handling Justin Nozuka yesterday – fans were spammed for over 15 hrs with the same message both on Facbook and Twitter, with dates for a gig that had already happened and many were so cheesed off like me, that they hid his feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

A regular daily regimen often entails the caretaker role of feeding the child, changing the diapers, burping the baby, changing the clothes, bathing the baby, teaching the baby new things, taking the baby to the doctor or outdoors, putting him down for a nap — the list goes on and on. &# question a hundred times.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. How you use social media depends on your frame of mind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, jwz posted a great piece on how to access Facebook via a feed reader. I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Let me port my RSS feed to it and be done with it!&# Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Effective use means more business. Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. My primary was connected to FB and I found I didn’t like my FB feed scrolling as fast as I twittered. I think that would make more sense to tweet under my other persona rather than @tamar, since people come to follow @tamar for my business/social media insights.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed. This is basic News Feed Optimization. look how much tweaking it is taking to make it work on their part: are you my fan – do you like me, what info has to show up in the news feed etc. Give them a reason to be actively engaged.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I have a team of several community managers who work for me and we try to balance this several ways: News can be posted on our forums by individual community team members, but is posted from “Turbine Community&# if it’s a blog post on our bespoke social networks (my.ddo.com and my.lotro.com).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. Some are ones we’ve developed, such as the News Feed, Profiles and Inbox, but a lot of services are things that we’re not developing. It’s a trust based system.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles. Integration Audit Am I integrating my social media profiles? Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

– they believe the subscriber subscribes because they do want updates from that person’s site, just like a RSS feed would deliver only updates from their site. they believe the subscriber subscribes because they do want updates from that person’s site, just like a RSS feed would deliver only updates from their site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

I agree that building a brand name is really important, but “fake&# followers who don’t even engage (or even sign on or follow their home feed, for that matter) are not going to help boost your brand. Reply Tamar Weinberg April 9, 2010 at 12:37 am Hi Loka, thanks for your comments. It’s an inflation of numbers, nothing more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

which makes me want to read more and subscribe to every feed you have to offer) from your suggestions, i will employ what i can… i’m not a trained writer, but i’m very passionate about what i do. you practice what you preach while maintaining a very personal touch when you write.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

her tone in contacting Dave has caused him to open up in the most sorrowful terms, lamenting the ‘feeding frenzy’ on Plurk and why would these people attack poor LillyBarb?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. It can be a pain to have to re-create a new Page and re-establish months of work building your Page if you get it wrong early on. Seems to work well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed. After all, that’s why Techipedia continues to provide really great informational content almost weekly. It’s why I respond to every comment on my posts. It’s why I reply to every email often within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

I had graduated college the previous year, so many of my classmates seemed to have “moved on&# from the social sites of my time (all of which have dissolved). In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. and how to market with the different mindset of the &# new&# Internet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But having a full automated feed — which is what it looked like for awhile — is my big concern here. But yes, check your feed! My specific highlight here was that most of it was automated during this time, and more specifically, the items that were *NOT* automated were mentions of “happy birthday&# and then some.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Andy has submitted nearly 15,000 stories to Digg and over 4200 of his submissions have hit the front page of the impossible-to-game social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Reply jimmy41687 June 25, 2010 at 6:57 am Well we all think that facebook is a social site but thats no true vcz e all know that facebook is controlled by cia and every bit of you information is stored in the facebook so we guys so be more carefull of wht we are doing Reply Tamar Weinberg June 25, 2010 at 9:19 am Um, thanks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? Just because I don’t sit on RSS feeds and submit news content all day and only play on Digg when I can doesn’t mean I don’t care more for the community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds. FB seems to be able to do anything they like with the data we – the users – are feeding them with. However, I’m going to go out on a limb and give you a peek into the mind of one of these back-ass-wards, “anti-news feed&# radicals.

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