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Earth Knowledge takes curation to a new level. Earth Knowledge is an example of nearly pure curation. The site operators don’t create any original content. They provide value in the creative ways in which they organize and visualize content created by others. http://www.earthknowledge.net
We've been inputting data into the social graph for years now.
Personalized news curation may be the latest happy output, but it's been a long time coming.
ZangZing launches its group photo sharing web service into private beta Tuesday to gives users a way to create, build and share photo albums with friends.
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue.
The 5 models of content curation: 1. Aggregation 2. Distillation 3. Elevation 4. Mashup 5. Chronology
Redux is your entertainment guide to the web.
Redux helps you find and enjoy videos, photos, music, and websites recommended by people who love the same stuff you do. You can also create your own channels or add your own picks to various channels.
Recommended by Mashable, TechCrunch, GigaOm and others.
I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding. Curation is no exception. The truth is that for several years there were two kinds of people in social media, those who create content and those who consume it.
Historically, creators were among the digital elite, the so-called digerati, as only a small percentage was actively dedicated to creating. But there’s a world wide web out there and everyday people consuming social content dramatically outnumber the digerati.
The Hottest Tweets On The Web & The Best Twitter Directory Available...
A Web start-up named Storify, which opens to the public Monday, April 25, 2011, aims to help journalists and others collect and filter all this information.
Storify aims to help journalists and others sift through the explosion of online content and publish the most relevant information.
Using the Storify Web site, people can find and piece together publicly available content from Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and other sites. They can also add text and embed the resulting collages of content on their own sites
Time to talk about social business planning again.
If your company wants to learn to fly and integrate a social "layer" into everything you do here are a few thoughts as you plot your own roadmap: 1 - Crawling: People, Process, Procedure. 2 - Walking: Managing Your Properties. 3 - Running: Ecosystem Engagement At Scale. 4 - Flying: Social Innovation & Organizational Integration.
At LeWeb in Paris, I caught up with the 99Faces crew to discuss trends in social media for 2011 and 2012. Among the many topics we touch, we spent a fair amount of time exploring the evolving influence of social media on... - Mainstream lifestyle and culture - The rise of curation - Elevating the importance of transparency and engagement between businesses and customers - Businesses dynamics and the need to open the doors between silos - Politics and organizing the "brilliance" of the crowds Brian Solis published it May 15, 2011 http://j.mp/m8cUMBGiuseppe Mauriello created it April 24, 2011 on Scoop.it
In an infographic that's bound to cause arguments and perhaps fistfights, researchers at Hunch placed data from 700,000 of its website visitors onto a deep and revealing illustration that shows just how different users of Macs and PCs are.
They came up with interesting correlations between users’ chosen computing platforms and their demographics and personalities, as well as tastes in food, fashion and media.
Are you overlooking some of the most powerful influencers on the social web? Let’s find out.
Traditionally, there has been a 1-9-90 rule when it come to creating and consuming content:
There’s a new element in this equation, though: Content Curators — people who make a practice of finding content relevant to their friends and followers, and then sharing links to that content. I am making a distinction between a curator and an aggregator who pulls content from around the web, usually related to a specific topic, to display on websites generally to enhance search engine optimization.
Vayable is an online marketplace where people can discover, buy and sell unique travel experiences, including tours, activities and extended trips.
Like an Airbnb for travel experiences, secondary market place Vayable launches today to offer travelers the opportunity to buy experiences in exotic locales all over the world, from Rome to Rio as the well worn cliche goes.
The key difference between Vayable and that other “Airbnb for experiences” Skyara is that Vayable is targeting travelers specifically, especially those who are tired of the relative banality of activity offerings from travel sites like Orbitz and Expedia.
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In the eight-plus years I’ve worked with Jim Romenesko, I’ve spent some time talking with him, more time emailing with him, and — most of all — I’ve admired and observed how he does what he does. But last week, for the first time, I experienced it firsthand when Jim took some well-deserved and unprecedented time off.
In the process I learned three things about content curation: - The balance between the obligatory and the original is critical. - What you exclude is as important as what you include. - Speed kills, but slowness is a painful death of its own.
Storination is launching soon and I am on board. Storination is a new social curation and story-blogging platform based on the Storify technology. Express yourself, follow topics, curate and add 'rich stories' using social media streams. - April 26, 2011
A New Kind of Video Platform!
A player people can follow with Yokto leverage the collective power of over a billion originally-created videos and millions of presentations to captivate and inspire your audience.
Curate visual collections of the best web content found on Twitter and other social platforms. Twitter favorites are a great idea for a feature, but all the tweets just get dumped into the same lame bucket! Make it easier to save and share the best tweets by organizing your Twitter favorites and retweets with Keepstream. Other interesting links about it: - Austin, April 12, 2011, launched unofficial SXSW session archive page: http://sxsw.keepstream.com/ - Keepstream tutorial: http://vimeo.com/19706340
The explosion of real-time information through social networks like Twitter and Facebook has created an opportunity for "curation" tools such as Storify, which just launched as a public beta.
Tools like Storify allow anyone to perform the same kind of function, regardless of whether they have been trained as a journalist — or even think of what they are doing as journalism.
Twitter-focused curation tool, which lets you gather and share collections of tweets around a specific topic. Popular news items, events, or trends may see thousands of related tweets, retweets and spam posts in a matter of hours: Chirpstory offers a way to curate and “summarize” related tweets in the form of a continuous or thematic narrative. Launched on TechCrunch, Dec 22, 2010 http://is.gd/wl3iX5
notify.me delivers notifications that interest you in real time. It eliminates the need for you to constantly check on classified listings, blogs or social networking sites. Notifications are delivered to your destinations of choice such as instant messenger, mobile phone, email, desktop or web application.
For the purposes of this test, I took the 50 accounts from the InfluencersinTravel.com list of independent travel influencers. I then created a spreadsheet in Excel and imported the following data for all 50 people on the list: - Klout Score - PeerIndex Score - Number of Tweets - Number of Followers - Number of people following - Ratio of followers to following - Number of Twitter lists I then plotted the data for Klout and PeerIndex scores vs the various metrics and put a trendline on the data with a corresponding R^2 value. A value of 1.00 would be a perfect correlation... [read full story http://j.mp/dMkrHf]
Whether you're a Twitter novice or tweeting pro, there are always ways to improve your presence on the microblogging service. Here are five ways to make your Twitter stream more valuable and dynamic for followers.
The explosion of information has created a need to group data in meaningful ways. Curation encourages users to form niche communities around their passions by sharing content that centers on their core specialty.
Rosenbaum says: "The new media moguls won't be makers; they'll be finders, endorsers and presenters."
Most online content today is stuck. It has roots firmly planted in one of the many sites and applications around the web. Because content is rooted, we are forced to spend precious time recording its location in the hopes of navigating back. We bookmark websites. We favorite tweets. We create lists in text files.
In this system, the sites are the gravitational center and we, the users, orbit them, reaching out for a connection whenever we want to interact with the content. This is a fine system, but as users spend more time on consumption-oriented devices like iPads and mobile phones, new demands are being put on content.
One problem on a daily basis is to decide for a given Twitter account whether I want to follow it or not. I consider many factors when making the decision such as language of their tweets, frequency, whether they interact on twitter with other people I admire, or if I have some personal or geographic connection with them. But the most critical factor for me is whether they tweet about things that match my interests.
New tool to help see which topics a person tweets about most often. It also shows the other twitter users that are mentioned most frequently in their tweets. I call it the Tweet Topic Explorer. I'm using the recently described Word Cluster Diagrams to show the most frequently used words in their tweets and how they are grouped together.....
The entry field at the lower left lets you explore the tweets for any twitter user.
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