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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. 2 LinkedIn’s new ways to track companies.

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

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According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. So for users looking to find an online news aggregator that is customizable and interactive, Reddit is really the only place left to go.

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Blogging Upstream

Waxing UnLyrical

We insist on good journalism, and we honor our readers’ overscheduled lives by keeping our posts short. But Tootzypop is part of the Glam Media network of sites, and I know from placement on Glam verticals that it’s our posts on exactly these topics that tend to get the highest aggregated traffic. But everything I just described?

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A Walk Through Twitter’s Walled Garden

The Realtime Report

Ever since Twitter picked a business model based on advertising, the company has been emphasizing the importance of creating a “consistent experience” for Twitter users. Now the company is partnering with NBC to create an events page for the Olympics, with a curated feed of the most popular posts from the games. “The

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Content Is Everywhere - The Changing Tide Of The Internet

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Here's what Arianna Huffington had to say about the acquisition of her company to AOL: "AOL's Patch.com covers 800 towns across America, providing an incredible infrastructure for citizen journalism in time for the 2012 election, and a focus on community and local solutions that have been an integral part of HuffPost's DNA.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Currency itself has no inherent value except what we, the community/nation, put on it. Business: An online newspaper/news aggregator and group blog. The company has proven to be more than adept at balancing reporting the news with growing visitors and pageviews. Estimated Value: $150 million. Location: New York, NY.

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Whose Ethics Apply in Social Media?

Net-Savvy Executive

Today's Wall Street Journal had Twitter abuzz about social media monitoring and privacy in closed communities ( 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web ). Do they apply if the data is aggregated, and no personally identifiable information is preserved? It's obviously an ethical question, but whose ethics apply?