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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. Your mileage may vary. Go with both.

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If you love good ideas, let them go…

The Way of the Web

I say ‘former rival’ because towards the end of last year I wound down posting original content on the site and effectively put it on life support by simply collecting links about microblogging on Diigo which are then autposted. Image courtesy annais on Flickr (CC Licence).

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

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Since you’re on the move, though, you won’t have time to finish reading all those articles, so using this app becomes quite handy. If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore.

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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. Reply Megan February 27, 2008 at 8:56 pm Loved this article. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed.

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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. Beacon is getting a lot of bad press, but this article in PC World hits bottom for me. Please join me.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We would need a test where identical articles are stumbled and sphinned and see the stats that way. Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data. Reply Allan November 16, 2008 at 10:08 pm Much better to be a general site, but that means you have to be early and establish the category.