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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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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. Again, by no means is this new. I love how social media is helping companies become more accountable, transparent and even ethical. That’s not the point.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left. Problem solved.&#

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Our upcoming launch of VendorCity tackles this problem head-on. social networking. social media. social news. social networks. aggregators. I look at LinkedIn as one of those sites that has so much untapped potential.great user interface and simple design, but no life to it. Thanks again. mobile web.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Respond to Digg Complaints

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s what they said (also covered on Soshable and later posted on Brent Csutoras’s blog ): With regards to the new algorithm, Jay says, “algorithms are dynamic in nature. The math takes time to aggregate.&# (Lesson: Stop noticing things the second that they happen.) This was not addressed in the chat.) Thanks, guys!

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4 Ways I Compose Posts to Drive Millions of Pageviews to Blogs Through Digg

ProBlogger

On the blog post to which I alluded in the first paragraph, I aggregated the most popular photos posted on Ben’s blog in the last decade and performed some social outreach on the news aggregators. A story explained how betting pools were operating for the upcoming Super Bowl. Percentages.

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