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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

While it’s not as pure and noble as content creation, it’s more than aggregation. Are you a curator or an aggregator? Aggregation is an amassing of content. An aggregator will get books about airplanes. An aggregator will gather Merlots of any kind, or even just “reds.”

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How To Engage On Sites Using Facebook’s New Commenting Plugin

Dave Fleet

We’ve already looked at the pros and cons of the Facebook commenting plugin for businesses considering implementing the plugin on their sites. Do they just avoid commenting on sites using this plugin? Company-related conversation aggregated on employee Facebook profile. What’s yours?

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

Webbiquity SMM

Instead, successful media will become aggregators and editors of content, rather than creators. Online content aggregation is as old as the Internet itself, beginning with AOL. to topic-focused niche sites such as (using social media as an example) Social Media Today and Social Media Informer.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

It aggregates all the ways that you currently keep in touch with your special someone and really taps into the desire to never be apart from the one you love. These sites are visually so much more appealing than anything on Facebook, and the pictures of the products are themselves inspiring. Networking.

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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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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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Google Announces New Search Updates Which Will Put More Emphasis on Content Depth

Social Media Today

The updates take aim at aggregator sites that are purely designed to match with common search terms.