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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. The major “Web 2.0

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How I fell into social media

Jeff Esposito

I got into it three years ago when I was handed a magazine article and given the ultimatum of figuring it out. Social media was still being called Web 2.0, but in our weekly PR team meeting, social media nearly hit me in the head. At the time, I was content with public relations.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. And every year, I hand pick the best articles that I’ve read and compile them in a resource that I hope will last a long time. Every year, I can only read so many articles. Here’s my list for 2008.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur. Perhaps 140 character streams have replaced regular blogging, but I’ve been blogging more than ever lately.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. They both have their places in the web 2.0 and social media sphere. In the article I linked to, it says that Plurk was discovered by Inquisitr , which is why I referred to it.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This particular article is top notch and prompted me out of the woodwork into the comments. This is one great and insightful article you produced there. That’s how come they become better at what they do and also that’s how come they know which articles to link to when they are writing posts. Again, great job.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So I think it only makes sense to find a way to separate our online social circles. Great article! Reply Miguel Angel Juan Llavat February 16, 2010 at 1:34 pm Hello Tamar: I recently learned about your work thru an article that was translated into spanish and posted on [link] about Facebook etiquette tips. Thanks for posting.

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