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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Business: An online newspaper/news aggregator and group blog. We estimate about $10 million in 2009 revenue and apply a 15-times multiple (higher than other blogs given growth and brand strength) to arrive at a $150 million valuation. Monetizing: Virtual Goods venture capital 2009 (2). Estimated Value: $150 million.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

But I accept at face -value the argument that News.com is being impartial, and aggregating opinions. The collecting of different original source material from community members and shaping it into an aggregated story (quotes from Experts Du Jour, statistics, photographs) becomes the bards’ oops journalists’ content.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. being more widgetized. Your Party is Lame The third front of Facebook’s war on websites is in the area of push versus pull.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. being more widgetized. Your Party is Lame The third front of Facebook’s war on websites is in the area of push versus pull.

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No, You Can't Automate Social Media!

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

“Just found this great post on green and orange widgets by @tamar&# ). Aggregator sites are evil. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). Add value by finding blog posts or articles of interest to your followers and make sure to credit the author of the article, especially if he’s on Twitter!