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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. Thanks Tamar. In one case because of privacy issues.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Gab Goldenberg and Steven Bradley came to the party and donated their site stats for analysis, thereby providing three data points for observable trends (along with my own site). And the data provides a very strong indication that users from niche networks spends far more time consuming content. Oh, because you have charts and data!

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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. Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis. All this took a few weeks, a time scale we’ve never seen before. That’s not the point.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Analytical Blogs that take a good look at data and analyze it clearly are hugely resourceful. People love data, and they love knowing how data can be aggregated to make conclusions. They love charts and graphics, and they love the findings that can be made from this data in aggregate.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you elect not to have one, you can still create a Facebook page by following the steps after you fill out the relevant data for your business Facebook Page. Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Your Facebook Page should be created under your primary Facebook login.

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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Respond to Digg Complaints

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The math takes time to aggregate.&# (Lesson: Stop noticing things the second that they happen.) Kevin said that Digg Spy , a tool which records user buries, votes, and comments on the site, was created in Digg’s infancy and only captures a fraction of the data that is occurring on the site at any given time. And quickly, too.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How are you getting that data?&# It’s time for that list to die, and not for Chris Finke to do that but for Digg to actually prevent that data from being pulled. I also have doubts that blocking the submitter data would even work, because of the API. Is the only problem the fact that they make scraping the data possible?

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