<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T10:32:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38656/1/" /><id>38656</id><summary><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></summary><issued>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An audience of search marketers examining social media sites such as Digg.com and Reddit.com see them as a goldmine of lucrative Web traffic.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/6172/1/" /><id>6172</id><summary><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></summary><issued>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[50 Successful Social Media Sites You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/73101/1/" /><id>73101</id><summary><![CDATA[50 Successful Social Media Sites You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of]]></summary><issued>2008-08-21T12:23:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-21T12:23:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<b>PLIME made the list!<br/>PLIME made the list!</b><br/><br/>We're somebody now!!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13763/1/" /><id>13763</id><summary><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></summary><issued>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Get high PR backlinks by blogging press releases at PRWeb, and using their trackback feature.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to save social sites such as Plime, reddit, etc]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/102570/1/" /><id>102570</id><summary><![CDATA[How to save social sites such as Plime, reddit, etc]]></summary><issued>2009-03-27T16:57:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-27T16:57:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Reddit is taking a page out of Fark's and others playbooks, selling spots on its page. Most users of sites such as Plime don't like traditional ads. There are companies who pay people to secretly post articles to increase their traffic. Take out the middleman and allow for sponsored articles = potentially millions of $$$$]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Watching me watching you]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/134203/1/" /><id>134203</id><summary><![CDATA[Watching me watching you]]></summary><issued>2009-10-06T14:23:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-06T14:23:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New research suggests that 25% of people in the UK suffer from some form of paranoia.<br/>Will paranoia worsen as we move towards complex personal surveillance, the result of the heavy use of social networking sites such as Facebook?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Usocial -  *&amp;%^#!@#% threat to social networks?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/98436/1/" /><id>98436</id><summary><![CDATA[Usocial -  *&amp;%^#!@#% threat to social networks?]]></summary><issued>2009-03-09T00:32:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-09T00:32:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rising to the top of social networks and link aggregate sites such as Digg, Plime, and others can be extremely profitable. So much that there are companies who will - for a fee, guarantee you a top spot. This can bring 10 of 1000's of visitors to your site.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/96924/1/" /><id>96924</id><summary><![CDATA[A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites]]></summary><issued>2009-02-28T20:33:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-28T20:33:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Interested in joining a community based site but not sure which one is right for you? There are many different options out there that will cater to your specific interests and demographic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/42440/1/" /><id>42440</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Crispin Jones' expression of the impact mobile phones have on society.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31917/1/" /><id>31917</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></summary><issued>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[My review of Michelle MacPherson's Social Media Daily guide.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85046/1/" /><id>85046</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></summary><issued>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us. Here&#8217;s some of what they&#8217;re thinking:]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Media to retire facts, journalistic standards]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32287/1/" /><id>32287</id><summary><![CDATA[Media to retire facts, journalistic standards]]></summary><issued>2007-08-20T01:20:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-20T01:20:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Several major media outlets such as FOX, Yahoo! and CNN announced they will be retiring two outdated themes in media:using fact-based information and professional journalism standards.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Report: Social networking sites could be bad for your health]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/95338/1/" /><id>95338</id><summary><![CDATA[Report: Social networking sites could be bad for your health]]></summary><issued>2009-02-19T11:09:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-19T11:09:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace may increase the risk of health problems as serious as cancer, strokes and dementia by altering the way genes work, according to a report in the Biologist journal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Plime of Photoshop Tutorial Sites]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2143/1/" /><id>2143</id><summary><![CDATA[The Plime of Photoshop Tutorial Sites]]></summary><issued>2006-10-04T22:28:05+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-04T22:28:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Operates much like Plime, digg, etc. <br/>The social bookmarking way of finding the best tutorials and lessons (no signup necessary) out there.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76424/1/" /><id>76424</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites.<br/><br/>Gee, I think someone's been looking over our shoulder.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Palin blasts media for going easy on Kennedy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/88358/1/" /><id>88358</id><summary><![CDATA[Palin blasts media for going easy on Kennedy]]></summary><issued>2009-01-08T15:07:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-08T15:07:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sarah Palin told a documentary filmmaker that she thinks the media are giving Caroline Kennedy an easy time in her pursuit of a NY Senate seat because of her social status. Gun-toting, elk hunting women with pregnant teen daughters everywhere yell &quot;Darn right!&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/86830/1/" /><id>86830</id><summary><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></summary><issued>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What's frightening about the spread of this Trojan is not the worm itself - it's really nothing new in terms of malware - but the way its being spread. Over the years people have learned to be suspicious of unknown links and attachments in their emails, so the virus writers turned to hit us where we're more vulnerable: on our social networks. Here, many people still have a feeling of comfort and security. They don't always have their guard up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/126892/1/" /><id>126892</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></summary><issued>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For years, government officials have urged people to protect their Social Security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Top 5 Social Media Yo Mama Jokes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/127574/1/" /><id>127574</id><summary><![CDATA[Top 5 Social Media Yo Mama Jokes]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T08:51:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T08:51:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So about two or three weeks ago I was watching Juice I think and I came up with a couple of IMO really good social media yo mama jokes, since then I have been trying to think of 3 more to get my top 5 list and thanks to a bit of help from Mr David Towers I have them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[W.H. collects Web users' data without notice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/133123/1/" /><id>133123</id><summary><![CDATA[W.H. collects Web users' data without notice]]></summary><issued>2009-09-16T23:59:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-16T23:59:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Atlas Mugged: How a Gang of Scrappy, Individual Bloggers Broke the Stranglehold of the Mainstream Media]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36523/1/" /><id>36523</id><summary><![CDATA[Atlas Mugged: How a Gang of Scrappy, Individual Bloggers Broke the Stranglehold of the Mainstream Media]]></summary><issued>2007-09-23T21:54:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-23T21:54:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A column by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://eddriscoll.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ed Driscoll</a> about the evolution of media and reporting from the invention of radio to our current circumstances.]]></content></entry></feed>