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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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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though. It’s also a conversation medium. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together?

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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. Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Really, try Propeller, you’ll meet some amazing people there and have actual intelligent conversations. (I Digg has taken away the official top users list and has evened out the algorithm to curb “friendly&# digging groups. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Problem solved.&#

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Conversation Agent): How do you want to use Twitter? It’s really not that hard!

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t use a Facebook Group. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar.

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