Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business Posted: 2 years ago by DemureArt
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.
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Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media Posted: 3 years ago by msaleem
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.
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50 Successful Social Media Sites You’ve Never Heard Of Posted: 1 year ago by tigertony
PLIME made the list!
PLIME made the list!
We're somebody now!!
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High PR Backlinks via PRWeb Posted: 3 years ago by kjagot
Get high PR backlinks by blogging press releases at PRWeb, and using their trackback feature.
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How to save social sites such as Plime, reddit, etc Posted: 8 months ago by 2manyusernames
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 $$$$
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Watching me watching you Posted: 2 months ago by ThirDeye
New research suggests that 25% of people in the UK suffer from some form of paranoia.
Will paranoia worsen as we move towards complex personal surveillance, the result of the heavy use of social networking sites such as Facebook?
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Usocial - *&%^#!@#% threat to social networks? Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
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.
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A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites Posted: 9 months ago by Bornbad
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.
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Social Media Daily Review Posted: 2 years ago by vincentrich
My review of Michelle MacPherson's Social Media Daily guide.
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Social Media Predictions For 2009 Posted: 12 months ago by eastcoast1978
Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us. Here’s some of what they’re thinking:
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Social Mobiles Posted: 2 years ago by theamelianator
Crispin Jones' expression of the impact mobile phones have on society.
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Media to retire facts, journalistic standards Posted: 2 years ago by gratheo
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.
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The Plime of Photoshop Tutorial Sites Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Operates much like Plime, digg, etc.
The social bookmarking way of finding the best tutorials and lessons (no signup necessary) out there.
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Report: Social networking sites could be bad for your health Posted: 10 months ago by hogstr
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.
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Palin blasts media for going easy on Kennedy Posted: 11 months ago by Wingnut
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 "Darn right!"
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Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
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.
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Top 5 Social Media Yo Mama Jokes Posted: 5 months ago by iamamaniac
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.
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W.H. collects Web users' data without notice Posted: 3 months ago by shuallyo
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.
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The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe Posted: 11 months ago by muppet
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.
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Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
The findings give weight to the common notion that rejection "hurts" by showing that a gene regulating the body's most potent painkillers — mu-opioids — is involved in socially painful experiences too, said study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.
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The Social Thermometer Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
We often describe our social relationships in temperature metaphors, like “cold shoulder” or “warm memories” or even “she’s hot!” This is no coincidence. An experiment last year from the University of Toronto showed that thinking about an incident where the subject felt socially excluded led them to estimate the room’s temperature to be lower than those subjects who recalled a better experience.
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