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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. — SS. — SS . — SS .

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

Waxing UnLyrical

[Ed: I know we've had a LOT of posts on Google+ here recently. The first reaction to all the talk around Google+ and it’s Facebook-killing armor was, “Oh God, not another one.&#. Google+ cuts out the noise by adopting the “follow/unfollow&# conundrum, very similar to Twitter. It’s not shouting.

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3 Reasons Why Pinterest May Succeed Where Google+ Has Failed

SocMed Sean

The results are uniquely crowd-sourced aggregations and classifications of content from across the Web. With a limited number of hours in the day , could Pinterest actually draw users away from other social networks like Facebook and Twitter? And what about Google+? So what does Pinterest have that Google+ doesn’t?

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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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I’m Worried About Google Plus

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s no secret to most of us in the digital world that Google’s track record in trying to roll out socially infused applications is not good. I can’t even remember the last time I checked in at Google Buzz. I’m starting to think that maybe Google Plus might fall into that category as well.

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The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? But this also shows how Newser is pushing aggregation to the extreme.

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

This is especially true when you are on multiple networks. Think of your online conversations as an aggregate whole and not just one network at a time. You can’t mention activism and social media without James Karl Buck coming up. His tweet activated his social network and word spread quickly.

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