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It's like Pinterest, but you'll actually learn something.

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Think of Learnist as something of a mashup between Pinterest and Wikipedia. Users find content from across the Web — videos, news stories, music, Soundcloud links and what have you — and post it to a personal board that other users can follow. It’s ideal, Nivi says, for teachers who want to curate multimedia lessons for students to follow, though without the feel of a stodgy, traditional lesson plan.

The latest trends for startups, specifically mobile applications, is to attract celebrities with big followings to their platform. So far, it has worked for companies like Instagram, ...

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TNW: How have the interactions gone between Socialcam and brands? Are they approaching you?

Michael Seibel: Brand interactions have been great. At least 20 brands and agencies have reached out so far this week. But even better, many brands are just setting up accounts and starting to post videos by themselves.

TNW: What types of things are brands hoping to get out of being on Socialcam?

Michael Seibel: Brands like 3 things about Socialcam. First, they see Social Video as a new trend that they want to get in front of. Second, video is their most powerful promotional tool and Socialcam allows them to distribute video to their target audiences. Third, Socialcam is a new platform that is growing very quickly and brands who establish themselves early are getting a ton of followers.

Sonar, today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, has just announced that it is taking new steps towards creating the perfect "real-time, here-now network." With this goal comes three ...

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Sonar Status: like a tweet, but directed at only the people close by. This solves the “who wants to grab drinks/go for a run right now?” problem that no one has really effectively tackled. As a bonus, this status shows up in notifications when you come in proximity to your friends.

Sonar Presence: now Sonar runs quietly in the background, letting you share what you’re up to or interested in with your friends nearby, without checking in or opening the app

Italy’s Isle of Capri boasts the extravagant lifestyle of former Roman emperors that made their presence known there and you too can feel like a ruler upon your visit there. The stunning Hotel Caesar Augustus features breathtaking views of Mount Vesuvius and overlooks the Bay of Naples from each private balcony.

You will also find yourself impressed by Hotel Caesar Augustus’s infinity pool and delicious regional food offerings from the Lucullo Terrace Restaurant. Besides those amenities, the 19th century private hotel features vineyards, and citrus groves that give that old Roman feel.

Talk about a "Beautiful Day." Once the smoke clears from Friday's (May 18) Facebook IPO , U2 singer Bono could be the richest musician on the planet.

According to England's NME, the already flush, tech-savvy Irish rock icon owns 2.3 percent of the shares of Facebook through his investment group, Elevation Partners. Well before Facebook filed papers to go public, Elevation paid $90 million for the shares in 2009 and after what is expected to be the second-biggest IPO in history, Bono's share could be worth more than $1.5 billion.

As Rolling Stone pointed out, Bono will split any Facebook riches with his partners at Elevation (whose number is not known), so his total haul is undetermined. Also, the singer has reportedly pledged to use much of the money raised from his investments to aid charity work in Africa.

YouTube since its inception in 2005 is one of many social media channels and social networks that allow anyone with passion and purpose to display and spread their ideas and express themselves to a global audience.

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It is not until you leap into a plane and fly half way around the world to distant places that you start to realize the size and scope of the planet we inhabit.

Recently the earth’s population passed the 7 billion mark and over 2 billion of those are connected to the internet and more than 5 billion have a mobile phone.

When you start connecting that many people with global social networks such as Facebook (with over 900 million users), then opportunities and access to markets that were local become global.

Group intelligence beats individual brilliance – and businesses are willing to pay for the crowd’s wisdom in the social sphere.  The MIT’s ‘genetic’ model allows comb...It is crucial to get the motivation right, i.e. why people engage and continue to come back to contribute more to the cause or project. It comes down to finding the basic drivers for human motivation. This explains why people invest much of their time and resources to crowd sourcing.

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The famous $1million Netflix Prize was a 5-year open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings. The winner had to improve Netflix’s algorithm by 10%. The million-dollar reward in 2006 gives a flavor of just how valuable the crowd’s wisdom is for a company! In contrast to common belief, money is not always the driver. If it was, how do you explain the popular virtual ‘farming’ on Facebook, for example, where players pay hard cash for virtual goods?

In the more clandestine intelligence community, recruiting individual operatives plays to four motivational drivers: Money, Ideology, Conscience, and Ego (easy to remember as ‘MICE’).
The drivers for attracting collective intelligence are a bit different, as Tom Malone found out. Nonetheless, there are parallels: He calls the key motivators Money, Love, and Glory.

Curators Quick note- Collective intelligence is a way to push back on the negative affects of our technological advance.

Now this once-sleepy chunk of north-central Pennsylvania is a star on the map of an emerging national energy rush. Six hotels are new or being built, and about 100 companies have moved to town, sometimes so fast that the head of the local Chamber of Commerce has told executives wanting guided tours to wait.

"I've said, 'Look sir, get in line,' " says Vince Matteo, chief executive of the Williamsport/Lycoming chamber. "Now I know people in their 20s with high school (diplomas) making $120,000 a year."

Much of Wall Street and Washington is seized by the hope that the U.S.'s energy future will be as bright as Williamsport's. As Americans heave a sigh of relief at gasoline prices falling back from near $4 a gallon, big new discoveries of domestic oil and natural gas hold the promise of more substantial benefits for the U.S. economy for decades to come — even the possibility of energy independence.