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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. Tumblr is also known as the “other&# microblogging service, which thankfully didn’t follow Twitter’s path and remained true to what it was created for.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

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. Don’t track data to individuals. Data mining your customers to push ads at them is so 1950s.

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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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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

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. Facing mounting pressure to address data privacy , Zuckerberg participated in five days of hearings before the U.S.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. data portability. aggregators. He recently told me that every week they have a mini-presentation on one aspect of social media (past topics included ethics, social networks, and social bookmarking). Now if it could only stay up, we would be in business). mobile web.

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