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There’s a new trend in the way of RSS and social media gathering—create your own site, with customized feeds, news, and content. Instead of picking and choosing every little feed to consume in a straight, plain reader, create your own media rich news site and make money from it. This is what the fresh-out-of-the-Pligg-box-site, NewsBeet has to offer. You provide the topic, the news you’re interested in, and NewsBeet will create your very own “Beet” or site for you beginning with your RSS feeds. For example, if you’re interested in all things Britney Spears (because, let’s face it...  read more
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Radian6 monitors the web. It’s a company which aims its all seeing eye around the sphere of social media in order to aid advertisers and brand flame keepers to find out what the buzz, if any, is all about surrounding their company. In order to do this, they’ve parsed through social media coming up with a simple and succinct definition, which they use in turn to focus their efforts. Social media, according to them is disruptive, decentralized, open, transparent, and sprawling; however it is measurable. The tools they offer to measure the effect of social media on a brand include an easy... read more
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NPR, that most venerated bastion of public radio in America, has jumped on to the 2.0 bandwagon, combining the resonance of air waves with social media. Their newest program, GetMyVote, asks audience members about their personal politics, what concerns them, and how can their vote be earned. Users can post their comments and views via video/audio clips on the site. Additionally, these audio-video commentaries can be linked or embedded in other social networks such as Facebook or Myspace. GetMyVote entries are viewed by NPR staff members and the more compelling entries may appear on NPR sh... read more
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WhatYah, as in what yah watching, or listening to, is a social network cum media sharing site. It’s relatively simple, you invite friends, make media lists, and share. Movies, shows and games each have their own respective categories. Under each section is a list of titles. Users can add these to their own media lists or write reviews. Additionally, they can form lists which identify the media they want. Thus, if your friends get the media you want, you’ll be notified and vice versa. All members get a profile which shows all the content they’ve contributed to the site as well as co... read more
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TwitterMeThis is a Twitter marketing experiment proposed by Jim Kukral a blogger who writes about online marketing, blogs, tech, and making money online. The premise is pretty simple. Each day Kukral will post a question on Twitter, whoever answers it first gets five bucks via Paypal. Kukral wants to find out how many followers he can get without any marketing budget. So far, he’s managed to get about 300 followers in the space of two weeks. Basically, Kukral has found a potentially successful means for harnessing Twitter for marketing and community building. Marketers could push acros... read more
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Create your very own gang within minutes using SocialGang.com. This is an extremely simple, pared down app. It allows you to form a community with any number of users. To begin, you’ll have to register and name your gang. You can log in with your MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, or AIM account. From there, the site will ask you to list other members you want to join—the invite procedure is skipped, anyone you add is automatically in. Each group will get its own email address. The gang leader can send emails to everyone in the group, administrate privacy settings, and add new members. There aren... read more
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Don’t lose the opportunity of cashing in on today’s rage for user generated videos, reality TV and the social network phenomenon; consider RealityDigital. This white label media dotcom allows social media sites to plunge themselves into the good and profitable world of online video via their suite of ready made products. The first of their solutions is the Reality Digital Opus, a cost effective platform which can be integrated into existing sites, or launched as new web network on its own. Opus lets users watch, upload and manage video, music, and images. The Opus dashboard gives site m... read more
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LiveCurrent, ‘owns and operates some of the most engaging content and commerce destinations on the internet’. Their aim is to expand their brand by using social media to created DestinationHubs, platforms for passionate communities to come together, interact and discover more about the things they love and care about. A DestinationHub, according to the site, is characterized by four main attributes: it’s built around a pre-existing community, it’s built for discovery, it’s architected for cross platform portability, and it’s geared to make money. Currently they’ve got one Des... read more
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Demand Media is a social media company which connects content creators and audiences. It acts as a domain acquisition company, acquiring domains which generate heavy traffic. Their focus lies in acquiring companies with a specific leaning towards entertainment, lifestyle, outdoors, games, and knowledge among others. They already own a wide range of domains including the domains eNom.com, ChannelME.tv, eHow.com, ExpertVillage.com, and Cracked.com. Demand provides user driven publishing, community features and monetization tools for each of its acquisitions. The company is heavily backed, ... read more
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Vitrue is an advertising company specializing in social media. Their line of products focuses on community building, viral marketing, and brand extension. Vitrue offers to engage your audience using a combination of mashups, videos, photos, and compelling text. They’ve got user generated video uploading, promotional contests, and networking features. All products can be mixed and match to suit your company’s needs. Vitrue’s Admixer is an online video editing tool which can be added to any site and customized to your needs. All products are scalable too. Other Vitrue products inclu... read more
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500dollars.net offers members of social networks an easy shot at winning 500 bucks. It's an ongoing contest open to anyone simply by entering contact information. Finalists are selected at random from all entrants, and these finalists then invite their friends, members of their social networks (or total strangers) to vote for who they feel is most deserving of the $500.00, based on each finalist's short "pitch video." Entry is free, voting costs 1 dollar. Voters can vote for whomever they want, as many times as they wish. Your friends, members of your social networks and total strangers vote f... read more
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Sociableblog presents a mix of news updates, articles, reviews and videos on the world of social media. They extend special focus to the largest social networks: Myspace, Facebook, ORkut, and Bebo. As such, there are four tabs dedicated to each of the sites. Beyond that, you can search for networks in the directory; each network is classified by type, e.g. arts, society, travel and sports. Site owners and creators can post their sites and be interviewed too. On the left side you’ll find a listing of recent posts and most popular entries. There’s an RSS feed available as well as a w... read more
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