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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. I also have doubts that blocking the submitter data would even work, because of the API.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. Foursquare’s geolocation API was used for geofilters and location tagging in apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Ive found out, that it is far too easy to be dragged to only one larger and very live community (Facebook for example) and to forget about all of the rest web 2.0 aggregators.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Sexy Girls of Tech and Politics: The Unbeatable Trio (NxE): Find what the community likes and pander to them for the best kind of traffic exposure on social sites. Definitive List of Video Aggregator Sites (SEO Space): There are a lot of video sites beyond YouTube. What are Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization?

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

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Application programming interface (API). An application programming interface (API) is a communication system that allows two applications or platforms to “talk” to each other. Social network APIs allow these platforms to integrate with other software providers and apps. Community manager. Microblogging.

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No, You Can't Automate Social Media!

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers. Twitter is a community and you’re a member of the congregation. The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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