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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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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

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If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. If you need to manage several blogs hosted on several blogging platforms, you definitely need this app. It has become an official communication medium for online geeks.

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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. Best, Isa 760 Media Reply Ben Cook February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm As I commented on sphinn, I definitely think social media is going to become more and more mainstream over the next year or two.

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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. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. Let’s keep at it folks.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, SU definitely saw this post as more sci/tech than Internet. Reply Darrin September 26, 2008 at 10:37 pm I believe it’s definitely different for each site and depends on the content of each site. Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Reply Joel Mackey aka webaddict May 9, 2008 at 4:29 pm While the algorithm definitely penalizes top users or users with more success than others it does keep top users from making the front page 20 times in one day. Problem solved.&# People will do it, regardless.

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Need a little Social Discipline?

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Nobody else does either, at least not by themselves and definitely not every day. How much aggregate time did it take? If you use microblogs think of a theme for what you want to talk about and schedule some conversation starters. I’m not bragging, there are plenty of people with more, it’s just a fact of my life.

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