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Reddit is rolling out new user profile and moderation features

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Those profile posts will be combined with your other submissions to create something more akin to the love child of Facebook, Twitter, digg, and del.icio.us. Unlike before, where you would have to take your chances posting your links and content to a proper subreddit, you can now post whenever you want to on your own profile page.

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A Skewed Web: Innovation is in the outskirts of social media

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One of the reasons you see this enormous move towards social filters, as with Digg, as with del.icio.us, as with Google Reader, in a way, is simply that the scale of the problem has exceeded what professional catalogers can do. And, you know, my answer to that question has been: the only group that can catalog everything is everybody.

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A Skewed Web: Are you an outlier?

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Relying solely on social news or social bookmarking services such as Digg , Reddit , Fark , Slashdot , and Delicious might leave you with a very peculiar version of the world. Image by BLW Photography via Flickr. by Aaron Kim. A glance at the Twitter hot topics or Google Trends suggests that our collective Web brain is that of a tween.

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Unskewing the Web: Curators as filters

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However, the wholesale online sieves, like Google Search and Digg, created a different kind of problem, a giant global echo chamber, where we all were becoming collectively dumber. In my previous post , I cited Clay Shirky's assertion that the Internet did not bring us an information overload problem: we just needed better filters.

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Search isn’t about search anymore, it’s about social

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It’s worth it! Facebookers : Everyone in the entire world is on Facebook.

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Google Analytics Upgrade Could Bode Well for Google Plus

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What I see as the REAL bonus for Google lies in exactly which social media sources are receiving a deep dive in analytics. Here’s the lineup from Google’s Social Data Hub. Google Groups. Read It Later. Screen Rant. Some big names. But notice the big boys that are missing.

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The best online reputation defense is a good offense

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Here’s an incomplete-though-comprehensive list for you to start on: 43 Things, Badoo, Bebo, Blog.com, Blogetry, Blogger, Blogster, CafeMom , Cyworld, delicious, deviantART, Diaspora, Digg , Diigo , douban, eToro , Facebook, Flickr, Flixster, folkd , Foursquare, Friendster, Google+, GovLoop , hi5, italki.com, iWiW , Jaiku, LinkedIn , LiveJournal (..)

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