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Monetize Your Contact List: Recommendation Service + Job Search + Recruitment Engine = Zubka Is Here

Written by on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 in social search, collective intelligence, SearchToolsand Technologies, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, Online Marketing.

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Professional networking is part and parcel of the independent publisher\’s day-to-day work. If you ever want to go beyond regurgitating other people\’s news, sooner or later you will rely on your network of friends and contacts. But what if simply knowing the right person at the right time could earn you thousands of extra dollars? Online social networking services play an increasingly important role in forging both personal and professional relationships. You are no longer hemmed in by your geographic location or the small circle of people that live in your area. That\’s why smart web networkers make use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other such services to extend their reach, encounter fresh ideas and develop new relationships. Sooner or …

Social Media Networking Meets RSS Content Aggregation And Promotion: Genwi

Written by on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 in social search, social software, social media, RSS aggregator, RSS reader, social bookmarking, smart mobs, Online Marketing, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Video-Internet Television, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Independent Publishing.

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A new social media network with RSS aggregation capabilities has arrived on the scene, promising to provide a one-stop solution for the promotion of all of your online media. Whether you are a blogger, NewsMaster, podcaster or online video-maker a crucial part of your work is in drawing attention to your content. Shared RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networks and social news are all avenues that you might have explored in promoting your work, and each have their merits in boosting traffic to your website. But what if you could promote all of your media using a combination of these approaches, from a single easy-to-use platform? Now you can. In what appears to be a unique remix of existing social …

Social News Aggregator Ranks Most Popular Blog Posts By Traffic: Spotplex Is Here

Written by on Monday, March 12th, 2007 in SearchToolsand Technologies, social search, news, RSS, smart mobs, Online Marketing, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Social news aggregators like the popular Digg service bring all of the latest news together, and have their users vote on which items are of most interest - with top items floating up to the site front page, and those of less interest disappearing from sight. Websites like Digg can be a great way of tapping into the latest news as filtered by other web users, and can be used to find both valuable news content for your own blog, as well as a way to bring traffic to your website. But a new service has introduced an interesting spin on the social news concept - using the actual page views stats of a blog-post or news story to rank …

RSS Feed Reader Graduates To Social News Aggregator: Adobe MyFeedz

Written by on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 in RSS aggregator, social search, aggregation, news, personalization, RSS reader, social bookmarking, Content Delivery And Distribution, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, RSS, tags, SearchToolsand Technologies, Independent Publishing.

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myFeedz is a new service aimed at personalizing and adding a democratic, social dimension to the RSS feed reading experience. Here we have an interesting attempt to roll together the success of social news sites such as Digg, services that quickly learn your viewing preferences such as Stumble Upon and the familiar process of aggregating your online news into a single space using a feed reader, such as Google Reader. The result is a new breed of feed reader that delivers to you a personalized stream of news generated at the intersection of your own interests and other users\’ ratings, so that - theoretically at least - you get the cream of the latest news in your personal areas of …

Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web

Written by on Friday, December 1st, 2006 in folksnomies, folksonomies, bookmarks, online advertising, social search, social software, Online Collaboration, SearchToolsand Technologies, social bookmarking, Social Networking.

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Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0’s success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds. Photo credit: Maarten Janssen The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of negotiating by themselves. When you start to look for information online, very often the first place you turn to are the search engines to bring home web pages that will fit what you’re looking for. Search engines, however, are not always the best of even the most efficient way of finding great online content. Anyone that has ever waded through page after page of Google results hoping that they have hit on that…