The world’s most romantic city has no shortage of beguiling spots, but the Seine and its surrounds are Paris at its most seductive. On this walk, you’ll pass graceful gardens, palaces, intimate parks, a flower market and an enchanting bookshop. Descend the steps along the quays where it’s possible to stroll along the river’s edge.
Start: Place de la Concorde; (M) Concorde Finish: Jardin des Plantes; (M) Gare d’Austerlitz Length: 7km; 
Engadget thinks the Google augmented reality glasses "wouldn't look too out of place in a New York Times style story". Well, that is if you look like the hot girl in the picture, right? How about the rest of us nerds? Via gdecugis 
foursquare is getting ready to allow businesses to start making coupons. In a Q&A with the Wall Street Journal's Spencer Ante, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley says the idea is that merchants will use their Foursquare "dashboard" to figure which kinds of customers they need to incent to come back to the store.
Our New Networking series has taken a look at how social media sites can be used as powerful networking tools for new college graduates, sharing our best picks for tips, tools, and more for Facebook, Twitter, and now, LinkedIn.
Today, we’re exploring LinkedIn for new grads. We’ve saved the best for last: this site was created with professional networking in mind, and it’s our top pick as the most effective resource when it comes to making meaningful professional connections. Check out our guide to find great ideas for making the most of this great tool, as well as groups to check out and insightful posts for LinkedIn success. ![The Internet of Yesterday vs. Today [infographic] | internetbillboards | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/8ckIXH-gj6H5RVCQbvLUDTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
An infographic comparing the internet when it first arrived to that of 2011.
Via janlgordon 
Sports that can be combined with motorcycle racing 9GAG is the easiest way to have fun!... 
It’s hard not to argue that Needle is a cool startup when you see its headquarters — essentially, a top-of-the-line RV with a roofdeck lined in artificial grass.Needle connects online shoppers with product experts who assist them through chat, voice and video communication. Imagine the high-quality customer service of a sales person on the shop floor at Nordstrom, but when you’re shopping online. Needle re-creates a real store experience, but even one better because the experts are top-notch and love the products they recommend. They also don’t work full time, so they don’t get burnt out and are always eager to help. “Needlers,” as they are called, can earn credits for selling items, which they can put toward purchases of their own. They can also create “social coupons” to share with friends on Facebook. Needle’s CEO Morgan Lynch gave us the tour of his mobile office and introduced us to several “Needlers” who were working for Skullcandy and Under Armor, two of Needle’s clients. Lynch calls it “fansourcing” commerce. 
Robin Good: YouTube auto-generated channels are channels that are automatically created by dedicated algorithms to collect trending and popular videos by topic.
"Auto generated channels act like user channels in that you can subscribe to them and stay updated on new videos.
In addition, auto generated channels provide:
-> The ability to subscribe and get regular updates about this topic on YouTube on your feed
-> A way to find other channels related to this topic
-> More context about this topic from Wikipedia or other sources
YouTube algorithmically determines the central topics in a video and then uses that information to develop great collections of videos for any topic of interest.
These channels do not convey any editorial opinion.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/topic/1ww-xJuh0ew/digital-curation ;
More info: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2579942
(Thanks to Alex Briscese for pointing me to this) Via Robin Good 
We live in a world facing multiple crises, many set in motion by factors beyond our individual control. As if this were not enough, we often compound these collective and personal crises with self-judgments, insecurities and doubts -- the voice I call the obnoxious roommate living in our heads. But again and again in my life I have witnessed moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible. For me personally, the biggest step was realizing that fearlessness is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. Fearlessness is like a muscle -- the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. It's getting to the point where our fears do not stop us from daring to think new thoughts, try new things, take big risks. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down. 
Surrounded by an overwhelming amount of digital content, many people are looking for something that can fill the role of a digital newspaper -- filtering and highlighting interesting content.
The explosion of real-time information through social networks and information services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has produced a never-ending firehose of content.
We need an easy and efficient way to filter it, and find what is interesting and relevant, and share it with others.
The field is filled with contenders who believe they can solve that problem, including News.me and Flipboard and Zite, and one of the newest is a San Francisco-based startup called Prismatic. http://bit.ly/JwwDcD ;
Like a newspaper, but in real time and social. What Prismatic does is analyze as much as it can about you when you connect to it with your Twitter account and then start recommending things to you based on what it thinks your interests are, using semantic-filtering algorithms and so on.
Prismatic makes it a lot easier to find relevant content. Via maxOz 
Excerpted from the article by Marketwire: "GageIn, the first stop for all enterprise data on the Web, launched News Portals today. Professionals can now publish curated business content, on an on-going basis, to share insightful information about their marketplace, customers, and competitors, leading to improved business performance.
"GageIn brings curation to the enterprise, allowing internal teams, marketers, and other professionals to utilize it for business purposes," said Dr. Luosheng Peng, CEO of GageIn.
Who can use News Portals? - Marketers: Curate stories about your industry, market trends, and educational articles for your audience - Corporate Communication/Competitive Intelligence Professionals: Curate stories about your top competitors, clients, and industry for managers and co-workers - Sales: Curate stories about clients and prospects for your selling team
Users can create their personal Portals by saving and tagging any content they find on GageIn. Portals can be shared internally with coworkers and teams, or with outside networks on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Per GageIn's integration with Salesforce Chatter and Yammer, users will also be able to share Portals with teams on those platforms as well...."
Read full article by Marketwire: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/gagein-launches-business-content-curation-for-professionals-1652155.htm
Try out it now: http://www.gagein.com/publisher
Tutorial: How to create a News Portal: http://www.gagein.com/blog/2012/04/tutorial-how-to-create-a-news-portal/
Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
There's an undeniable element of skin-crawling terror to the downward spiral of modern American politics. And who hasn't felt like projectile-vomiting all over their dashboard while listening to Rush Limbaugh's radio rants? So kudos to a proud Miami auteur for dreaming up The Foxorcist — a mashup of a classic horror movie with the bile-spewing state of 2012 politics. If an early preview is any indication, it's the weirdest thing we have ever seen. 
We all know that Pinterest is the rising star of the social space and growing at a breakneck speed. We also know that the use of Infographics is becoming one of the most important and popular ways to illustrate and share ideas on Social Media, SEO and Inbound Marketing. They are a match made in heaven! So I have compiled the Top 100 Pinterest Board that you should be following for the best Infographics out there... *puts on my best Top Of The Pops voice* |
I've compiled a large list of familiar (and not-so-familiar) tools that will hopefully help you with your web content, social media, analytical and curation needs. If there's something I missed, feel free to add it to the Google Doc.
Via Gerrit Bes 
The Carousel of Progress – Skype…Really?
Small business owners and non-profit directors are always short on time and searching for ways to be more frugal with their dollar. So it continues to surprise me how many are still not using Skype! True, I was shy to jump in, but I quickly saw the value of this video-calling interface. Skype – The Noun Skype is part of Microsoft. In their words: “Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart.” Here is a list of a few of their useful features: Free video calling. Call mobile phones and landlines. Group video calls. Send files. Instant messaging. Screen sharing. Skype is a tool that makes your business or organization more efficient, and yes, more social. 
“The last few years, whenever we consume any media on our televisions, on our computers, wherever it is, they’re always kind of competing,” Elan Lee, chief creative officer of Fourth Wall Studios, which created Dirty Work, told Wired. “A lot of the concept behind [this] came from the central concept of, ‘Hey, what if we could get all of those devices and all of those platforms to come together to tell one story and cooperate with each other instead of competing for your attention?’”
Via Gary Hayes 
I watch Mad Men like the rest of America. Or I watch Mad Men with a percentage of people that still doesn’t come close to Two and Half Men. Either way, I watch it. I watch it for the same reasons that you probably do.
... Via Jérôme Riguidel 
Robin Good: Grockit Answers is a web app that allows anyone to build a Q&A or discussion board around a specific video. Multiple questions can be asked and each one of them can be connected to a specific point in the video. Great to introduce new video-based content and engage your fans on it. "In Grockit Answers, interactions happen around video lectures, and participants ask and answer questions about specific points in the lecture. Since every question is attached to a specific point in time in the video, Grockit Answers displays a question and its answers at the point in the lecture that they are most relevant. And since the things that confuse you are likely to be the same things that confuse others, you'll find that answers to your own questions pop up on the screen just as you're starting to get confused." Free to use. Review: http://quickshout.blogspot.it/2011/10/create-online-social-interaction-around.html ; Try it out now: https://grockit.com/answers ; Via Robin Good 
“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” Season three, Love Among the Ruins “Why is this empty?” Season four, The Rejected (about his empty bottle of booze) “I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.” Season one, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes “You don’t cover for me. You manage people’s expectations.” Season two, The Benefactor “It wasn’t a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover.” Season one, Marriage of Figaro 
No. 1: Take a fresh look at Pinterest, you might be surprised what you find. Pinterest is one of the most talked about social networks of the moment but many are passing it by as a business tool. According to a recent study by social media inbox developer Marketmesuite , 65% of businesses who entered their site URL into PinMe, the company’s latest tool for tracking Pinterest usage, their site’s content had already been pinned. 
Do you participate online and do you see yourself as a curator?
We have all been given the freedom and the tools to become part of the information ecosystem.
There's only one problem with all this micro-publishing. We broke the web. Today - and almost overnight - information has exploded.
We've flooded the web with uncontextualized content. With little more than a few random tags and some meta-data, the information ecosystem is flooded with voices, sources, rumors, facts, data, digits, images, and check-ins.
Steve Rosenbaum calls it Digital Overload, and it's an information epidemic sweeping the planet.
To separate signal from noise, there's an emerging class of information superheroes called Content Curators.
"Curators are both collectors and creators. Capturing the zeitgeist of the web, and knitting together images, text, links, and video along with their own original content to create a focused, contextually relevant editorial for an overloaded world."
In a world of too much undifferentiated data, people will pay to 'tune-in' to curators who have a finely calibrated filter.
People will pay for clarity, authority, context, and speed. So, how does the changing nature of the web change the need for curation?. It turns out - it speeds it up.
The rising tide of Digital Overload has created an over abundance of unfiltered content, and a growing need for curators to turn a noisy web into a infinite number of trusted verticals.
Digital Overload is both a problem and an opportunity. One thing is for certain,
How we manage it - and who we trust to curate the information we need - is the next big question of the web. Original Article: http://bbc.in/JaykkC ; Via maxOz 
Today I caught wind of a brand new Christian social networking website that was just launched on Tuesday. Heavenup.com is truly the first top notched Christian social networking website that has a chance to rival Facebook for Christians. It has a great user interface and a clean design that reminds me of the old Facebook days before the timeline change. Although Facebook is a great place to engage in ministry and dialogue with other people, sometimes it is not as family friendly or uplifting as I would like. Not so with Heavenup.com. It is specifically designed with people of faith in mind. Here are some of the features that you can find at this Christian Facebook rival. 
Nearly 70% of total TV shipments in 2016 will be for connected TVs, resulting in revenues of more than $117 billion (€88.3 billion), according to a new report by IMS Research. This contrasts with a global figure of 25% last year and shows, according to the company’s market analyst and author of the Connected TV Sets – World – 2012 report Veronica Thayer, that “internet connectivity is becoming a standard on high-end TV sets, and it’s increasingly being added to mid-end televisions.” The report also shows that proprietary operating systems will remain the main type used by manufacturers in the next five years, although Android OS will start gaining presence and is expected to reach a significant share of the market by 2014. It shows that in 2016 more than 80% of the connected TV sets shipped worldwide will have built-in Wi-Fi and close to 30% will have advanced user interface features such as motion, gesture or voice. Via Peter Rosenberg 
In a recent video from NBC Nightly News Ben Silbermann, the founder of Pinterest, shared that his childhood bug collection was part of the story that transformed his passion for nature and science into the third most popular site on the web. Ben developed Pinterest as a place for individuals to share their own stories, interests and passions in a digital sense, with the goal of connecting online inspiration with offline action. When it comes to Pinterest, a hobby as unique as bug collecting can be the start of a story that means so much more. Pinterest is grounded in the simplicity of collecting, sharing and discovering images of inspiration and passion. Yet, what I find to be the beauty/addiction of Pinterest are the stories that are discovered between every pin. What we “like, love, live and dream” are the foundation of every story. This post will take a dive into the updated Pinterest layout and a revised Terms of Service, to discuss the perspective Pinterest is bringing to social media storytelling. 
How your company can use social media This month, we aim to sharpen your thinking about blogs, wikis, mobile apps, Web forums, and the like. “Demystifying social media” shows how executives can shape the consumer’s purchase decision by harnessing these new platforms. Several consumers share their experiences, and three McKinsey partners provide advice on how companies can draw on social media to build brand loyalty, in the video “Making sense of social media,” on mckinsey.com. “A social journey” interactively demonstrates why marketers should use such techniques at every stage of the consumer’s purchase process. “Understanding social media in China” shows that despite vast differences between this market and those of the West, the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar. Finally, review the results of therecent live Twitter conversation hosted by McKinsey partners David Edelman and Hugo Sarrazin on using social media to shape consumer decision making (available on Storify). |
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