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Excerpted from article:
"Today Spool is mostly being used to bookmark and sync content that you want to consume later across multiple devices.
But it sees an opportunity to be more than just a way for users to manage content that is interesting to them. It is also enabling them to share that content with relevant groups.
The application is a bit of a combination of Dropbox and Evernote, letting users store videos, articles, images and even PDFs in the cloud. But the sharing aspect is what is really interesting and a real opportunity.
While Facebook and other services are enabling so-called frictionless sharing of what our friends and contacts are watching and consuming at any given time, that has also resulted in a lot of noise and not a whole lot of signal. It is hard to know what’s good and what’s not. So what Spool hopes to do is to enable users to more easily share relevant content within groups..."
[read full article http://j.mp/zepfWI]
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Robin Good: The new Storify news curation tool is now available for the iPad, bringing the ease of drag and drop to the curation world.
"Founded in 2009, this seven person company has done a remarkable job surviving the market and being one of the major players in the world of content curation.
[Storify has been adopted by] 22 out of top 25 news sites in the United States...
Just like Twitter has their trending topics, Storify’s service allows people to keep track of the relevant social media trending topics. Users are able to tell their own story about these major events (like Whitney Houston or Greece’s economic downfall or even Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance), and embed them on their own website.
Be your own crowd-sourced storyteller, by dragging in tweets, status updates, photos, and videos from a variety of social networks in order to help you create a better story and telling experience."
(Source: http://bub.blicio.us/storify-launches-free-ipad-app-to-help-content-curation-on-the-go/)
Check out this video interview shot yesterday with the Storify team demonstrating the new app: http://youtu.be/u-Ua4LIbzMY
The Storify app is free to download right from the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storify/id488223180?ls=1&mt=8
Find out more: http://storify.com/storify/storify-for-the-ipad-is-here Via Robin Good 
Microsoft has launched a site that curates content from blogs, news feeds, and social media sites in an effort to aggregate buzzworthy topics from around the Web in one place.
The site, msnNow, "cuts through the clutter of the Web, providing an up-to-the minute view of breaking trends and the hottest social conversations, what people are saying about them, and why they matter," the software maker said.
MsnNow captures feeds from Facebook, Twitter, Bing, BreakingNews.com, and other sites. Microsoft said content is chosen through the use of special algorithms that measure which topics are generating the most buzz around the Web.
The site features a rotating carousel of top stories at the top of the page, and a sidebar panel on the right that lists the "biggest movers."
MsnNow also features a prominent Bing search box, an indication that Microsoft is hoping the site will drive traffic to its search engine.
[read full article http://j.mp/AcAPpm and check out the site here: http://now.msn.com] 
Excerpt from the article:
"Mistash is a social catalog of products. As you make your way around the web, a handy Mistash bookmarklet lets you save products you’ve got, want or had. With the actual way that Mistash works, the comparison to Pinterest is unavoidable.
To use Mistash you will have to log in with either your Facebook or Twitter account, with no option to sign up independently of these two sites. You can then begin to ‘stash’ products from all over the web, or upload images of the product from your computer. You can then choose the list the product goes under, give it a rating, and add a description.
The current categories on Mistash include Books, Technology, Vehicles and Pets among others, but users have already started to get creative with their ‘stashes’.
Of course it wouldn’t be a social network if you couldn’t follow other users. User profiles show who you follow and who follows you and your activity feed, while social interaction on the site also includes the ability to comment, like and add other users’ products to your stash.
Why use Mistash? For starters, among friends, it’s a great way to keep track of each others wishlists. Following other users who like the same stuff as you turns Mistash into an interesting product-discovery tool."
[read full article http://j.mp/xdkkh2] 
Shopping search, social shopping, question & answer. Buyosphere combines all three of those elements to get a site that offers shoppers expert, human answers to their shopping needs.
Personalization in product selection is being more and more demanded, and this website is helping to pave the path for that.
What can you do on Buyosphere:
2. ANSWER and help someone find that perfect something! helping others is the new black.
3. ADD great finds that you want or have fro m any retailer on the web, the more you build your taste profile the easier it is for others to help you find what want.
4. DISCOVER that perfect dress, or gadget or store through our community sharing and suggestions.
Check out it: http://buyosphere.com/
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello
Excerpted from article:
"Today Spool is mostly being used to bookmark and sync content that you want to consume later across multiple devices. But it sees an opportunity to be more than just a way for users to manage content that is interesting to them. It is also enabling them to share that content with relevant groups.
The application is a bit of a combination of Dropbox and Evernote, letting users store videos, articles, images and even PDFs in the cloud. But the sharing aspect is what is really interesting and a real opportunity.
While Facebook and other services are enabling so-called frictionless sharing of what our friends and contacts are watching and consuming at any given time, that has also resulted in a lot of noise and not a whole lot of signal. It is hard to know what’s good and what’s not. So what Spool hopes to do is to enable users to more easily share relevant content within groups..."
[read full article http://j.mp/zepfWI] 
All of us have areas of interest and expertise that we wish to continue developing. We want to know everything that is going on in relation to that topic. More importantly, we want to be sure we are not missing anything important.
What differentiates successful professionals is their ability to take action before competitors so as to mitigate a risk or act upon an opportunity.
This post explores 7 roadblocks that difficult content curation.
1. Shooting Stars: The widespread adoption of real-time platforms has led to a huge increase of content publication. Identifying strategically important information has become much like spotting a shooting star.
2. Popularity Icebergs: The massive utilization of popularity to deliver information is making content curation difficult for users with highly personalized information needs. The information that is not considered popular remains under the sea of information and is very hard to find.
3. Assumption Bubbles: Algorithms are gaining importance to filter Web content and tackle information overload. The resulting bubbles are difficult to escape and limit the discovery of unexpected information.
4. Expert Gatekeepers: Relying on experts is a good way to obtain relevant information with a reduced level of effort. However, those experts can easily become gatekeepers if they are not able to deliver information that is relevant to the dynamic interests and information needs of each user.
5. Circles of Trust: It is easy to forget that critical information might come from outside those circles of trust.
6. Bingo Cards: To build expertise, users are required to know everything that’s going on in relation to a specific topic. Users can feel overloaded because they decide to deal with more content than they can curate.
7. Distraction Mazes...
Conclusion: Finding timely and relevant information on an ongoing basis about a specific subject is very challenging. Most users are finding it extremely difficult not to be distracted by information that is not relevant to their information needs.
[read full interesting article http://j.mp/ynuhT5]
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello 
Excerpted from the article:
"The concept of curating news is not new. One can look to the supply-chain process of a news organization to see that several roles (editor, managing editor, etc.) have curation as a core competency; that is, the organizing of information filed by reporters into a deliverable packages for readers.
But with the push of social media and advancements in communications technology, the curator has become a journalist by proxy. They are not on the front lines, covering a particular beat or industry, or filing a story themselves, but they are responding to a reader need. With a torrent of content emanating from innumerable sources.
Curators help navigate readers through the vast ocean of content, and while doing so, create a following based on several factors: trust, taste and tools.
Unlike a reporter who is immersed in a particular industry or beat, a curator (as me) often has a day job. Some are in the media industry and have access to their publication’s news sources; others are obsessed with the news and want to provide their network, community or followers with what they think is important. But the common thread between curators is that they are viewed as trustworthy sources of information.
Read full article http://j.mp/w3YA65 [Curated by Guillaume Decugis - further editing by Giuseppe Mauriello] Via axelletess 
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of content we’re bombarded with on a daily basis. You can always save links in a text document, and keep images and other files in folders, but your OS file system wasn’t built for bookmarking.
Hopper lets you save content such as texts, images and links by copying and pasting it (using Ctrl + V), or just by dragging it into the webpage. You can also drag-and-drop files from your desktop.
That will let you get the content back whenever you need it later on. Any device that can access the Internet will let you get it back again, right as if it were on your HD or ZIP drive.
Hopper has got the great plus of working without registration. Accounts can be created if you want to organize your data and have it tidied up.
Check out it here: http://www.gethopper.com/ and/or read also this article on The Next Web http://j.mp/xW6SED
[Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello] 
Curation can be done well, and it can be done poorly. Generally, when it’s done well, someone with a unique slant on a topic selects content of particular value and spends time putting that content in perspective. It feels insightful, and valuable.
At its most basic, it’s when you find a hidden gem of interesting content on a specific topic for a certain person, and you send it to them, with a note.
Ryan Skinner gives his six key recommendations:
1) As narrow as possible: If you’re one guy with one hour a week, you can’t curate a good newsletter about cloud technology. The less resources you have at your disposal, the narrower should be your topic, your focus and your audience.
2) More than a link: This is the era of frictionless sharing, goddammit. Friction is a demonstration of care. Anyone can send a link. If you’re going to curate and share, add something. Some insight. Commentary. But no more than necessary.
3) Slap asses: If you’re going to curate someone’s content, you owe it to yourself and to them to be open about it. Preferably, it’s someone you follow and share comments with. And be sure to give them credit.
4) Give away the reins: To whatever extent possible, allow the people you’re curating for, to influence contents in the future. The likes of Reddit have made this idea their raison d’etre. There’s a reason for that.
5) Keep it 50/50: For every time you curate one story, you should create and publish another. That means your email newsletter would be 50% own content and 50% others’ content.
6) If you doubt, don’t: We’re all overloaded with content. If you have even a moment’s doubt about sharing a piece of content, don’t do it. Better to wait for the right one than more or less spam someone.
Read the full article: http://www.velocitypartners.co.uk/2012/01/18/get-to-terms-with-content-curation-pros-and-cons-and-6-principles/
[Originally scooped and curated by Robin Good - further editing by Giuseppe Mauriello] Via Robin Good 
From the official page: "extraMUROS is an open-source HTML5 infrastructure built on public APIs that aims to fundamentally change the way people discover, curate and share digital collections of books, images, sounds, video and other media. extraMUROS is a unique collaboration between the metaLAB (at) Harvard, Frances Loeb Library, the Harvard Library Lab and a network of journalists, designers and developers."
From the official video: "extraMUROS is a groundbreaking project that aims to shape the Digital Library of America into a multimedia library without walls through an open-source HTML5 platform built on public APIs.
Extramuros strives to fundamentally transform how people:
a) Discover b) Curate c) Share digital collections.
Extramuros is made up of four key features: Interconnectedness between libraries, museums, and national archives and repositories (Flickr, YouTube, Internet Archive, tec.) of all kinds.
2) Visual Discovery
3) Curation A collaborative curation system open to anyone to bring together collections, exhibitions or galleries combining text, images, audio and video.
4) Multi-Channeling Accessibility online and on iPads and other mobile devices."
Robin Good writes: This looks like a very promising project, which brings together and pioners some really innovative approaches in search and discovery of content. As can be seen in the video, a Chrome extension has already been developed, helping active curator to easily collect content in a variety of formats and from very different kind of sources, into browsable collections.
Inspiring. 8/10
(Transcription and curated by Robin Good) Via Robin Good 
"Jon Miller of News Corp may have predicted 2012 will see the "channelisation" of the web, but he really means a renewed focus on curation..."
"Channelisation implies that media corporations such as News Corp will be the ones controlling the playlist of content, but 2012 will see the role of such organisations fall back to providing content for others to turn into a wealth of different “channels” where the barrier to entry essentially falls to zero."
Key highlights curated from the article:
Curation of niche interest: channelisation "...opening up of video on demand services from all these channels will allow much smaller organisations to provide cross-channel curation.
If the channels who provide the content are still showing their ads before, during and after each show, then curators could start channels focusing on more specific interests and smaller niches than a broadcast channel could do – there will be channels dedicated to crime shows, medical shows, shows with appearances from certain actors, and more.
A user will just have to think of a single genre or idea that they want to watch in a show, and there will be a “channel” or that."
The curator
If a user trusts the taste of a journalist, presenter, blogger or other figure – they may be more interested to watch the content that user picks than the content programmed for any particular channel.
...These curators could add to the content by providing commentary from their own knowledge of the content – offering a place where consumers could find a new love."
Social Curation
They would not have to pay for licensing as the content owners will bundle ads with the in-stream content, and so people will curate out of love and interest rather than having to focus on budgetary constraints."
Read the full article here: http://www.techfruit.com/2012/01/12/channelisation-curation/ (Curated by Robin Good) Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello 
Slidestaxx enables you to gather social media from various sources and produce a beautiful slideshow you can post on your blog, website or directly on slidestaxx.
No matter if you use videos, pictures, bookmarks or product information. Slidestaxx brings it all seamlessly together. Slidestaxx allows for a wide variety of media sources - from YouTube to Flickr.
Share your stacks on social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Publish them on your blog using the embed code.
These slidestacks can be created absolutely for free. Users are allowed to mix media from all the sites they want together, and combine it to build up something new. And registration to the site is also free.
Check out it here: http://www.slidestaxx.com/
[Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello] 
Dr. Rachna Jain has a short, valuable article on content curation and its benefits up on his blog. She is good in highlighting the fact that there is more than one approach to curation, a superficial-one geared to just shoot out more content while having an easier life at it, and another one geared to provide a true service to a specific tribe's interest.
Key highlights from the article:
>> "...you can gain some measure of influence and leadership over a community, simply by being a very strong filter of information specific to that community."
>> "While curation seems to have initially begun as a way of rapidly creating new content, it also represents another way to build influence."
>> "By curating content, you are subtly allying yourself with the original content producer.
By reintroducing content in a new form or as part of a new conversation, you are directing where attention and focus goes. And, when you can direct attention and focus, you clearly have influence...."
>> "your goal is to create content that begs to be shared.
[How?]
a) Make it interesting [editorially]. b) Have an opinion. c) Use graphs, images, infographics to make your point. d) Make your content captivating to your target market. e) Highlight what they absolutely must know and f) Give them guidance on what is not that important."
Read full article: http://profitablepopularity.com/blog/content-curation-for-influence Via Robin Good |
Once you determine what kind of content your audience wants, you need to focus on presentation and delivery. Here's how organizing your content into three levels can make better content planning an understandable and achievable goal.
We’ve found four main objectives for using a content strategy to create value for your company:
1) Make yourself known as an expert in your sector. Relevant and strong content reinforces your company’s positioning. Show that you follow the trends, read interesting articles, and launch innovative campaigns. Content marketing is not just about content creation but also well-executed curation. By sharing useful articles on topics that are relevant to your industry, you show the world that you are up to speed on the latest insight.
2) Maintain a positive relationship with your customers. Sharing your content regularly will keep your clients and consumers in continuous touch with your brand. It’s best not to bother them with offers or discounts, but rather to offer them something that will add value.
3) Get new customers. If the content you share with existing customers and fans is strong enough, they will share it with their friends and business contacts.
4) Increase your reach on social media platforms.
The world is swamped with information, so it is extremely important to make the content you offer relevant to your intended audience. To start, think about what topics your company can offer unique content in. Secondly, investigate the market’s needs. Find out what topics your target group is looking for more information on.
Once you have combined the internal (level of uniqueness) and external (what people are looking for) dimensions for your content efforts, you will find that most of your ideas fall into four categories:
1) Focus topics: These are topics on which the market is looking for information, but competitors are not offering satisfactory solutions.
2) Competitive topics...
3) Niche topics: These are topics that may interest fewer people, but that your company has a unique perspective on. Even if some of your content is only relevant to a smaller group of customers, if you have a unique story to tell it’s worthwhile to cover these topics to help foster trust.
4) Topics to avoid...
After determining your topics, the next step is to effectively plan the specific types of content you will create. When doing this, your ideas can be divided into three levels: - content updates... - content projects... - content campaigns...
[read full article http://j.mp/yKHckg] 
Excerpted from the article:
"Millions of photos and videos are shared on social networks every day, making it difficult to find the ones that matter amidst the noise.
Pixable pulls that fire hose of images and videos from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo, aggregates them in one place, and then gives users a number of sleek categorization, sorting, and editing tools to help them find the most relevant content.
As our lives become increasingly saturated by photo and video sharing, people yearn for better ways to filter the noise — not just on a single platform, but from all of the sources of photo and video content we use daily.
In this way, the team hopes that its categorization and filtering features can increase the stickiness of its user experience. To do that, and press past being a “priority inbox” for photos on social platforms, Pixable is today launching a feature that will allow users to group images on its platform using hashtags — a la Twitter.
Users can tag their own (and their friends’) photos with terms like #awesomeness, #graduation, #ripcrunch, etc. The goal is to take photo-tagging beyond its focus on people, and extend that group categorization to the rest of the nouns, i.e. places and things, to improve discovery and recommendations of photo content."
[read full article http://j.mp/AjDTBl] 
Surfing videos online is a challenge. Most of the videos we watch are short clips embedded on other sites, or links posted on Facebook and Twitter. Video sites do what they can to show us "related" content, but it's rarely enough to hold our attention for more than another click or two.
Showyou solves those problems in an impressive way. If you sign in to it with your Facebook or Twitter account, it will fetch all the videos posted by your friends and gather them in a single place. (You can also connect your accounts on YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr and other networks.)
These connections are great for two reasons: One, they spare you from having to chase down videos across multiple sites; and two, you're more likely to care about videos shared by people you know.
Where YouTube encourages you to follow content creators, who tend to be hit-or-miss, ShowYou wants you to follow content curators.
The demand for the viral clips that have fueled YouTube's rise is stronger than ever. If content is still king when it comes to video, user experience is a close second. ShowYou, with its innovative approach to delivering entertainment, is worth watching.
[read full article here http://j.mp/xAAsXQ and try out it http://showyou.com] 
Robin Good: If you are a librarian, an information scientist or someone who has been trained to sift through lots of information and to extract valuable insight, you will enjoy reading this article by John Warrier published today on Library Journal.
Mr. Warrier, who is information librarian, has two jobs. The first is as a librarian at a community college. The second as a content curator at Neatorama.com where he "highlights" neat, odd, and fascinating bites of amusement, from the latest breakthroughs across hundreds of topics.
In the article he shares his insight and advice about content curation and on what it may take for newbies to break into this field.
"...content curators focus on the news needs of particular professions and industries."
Professional News Curation Examples 1) The staff of PRDaily.com, for example, provides public relations professionals with the latest and the best news about that industry. 2) DesignBoom.com keeps track of the newest and hottest trends in art and industrial design. 3) BusinessInsider.com highlights news about world markets.
Getting Started You can get started in content curation quite quickly.
a) All you need is a social media platform, such as a blog, Twitter feed, open-access Facebook page, or Google+ profile. b) Find the best content and add new items daily. c) Focus not on your own interests, but those of your readership. d) Prove that you can draw readers as a trusted source and keep them coming back for more. e) Then you should try to secure an internship. Many content curation firms, such as Mediaite, Gawker and Flavorwire, offer internships that will give you hands-on training in the field. They’ll train you to examine your audience, compile potential sources and pitch your content to the audience in an attention-grabbing way."
[Curated by Robin Good] Via Robin Good 
Thinking about the sheer volume of information — stories, images, videos, data — available from The New York Times can evoke a simultaneous glee and terror. It is simply impossible for readers to see them all.
The task for beta620, the Times experimental projects group, launched Deep Dive that uses the Times’ massive cache of metadata from stories to go, as the name suggests, deeper into a news event by pulling together related articles. So Deep Dive would provides readers a collection of stories relating to a topic, based on whatever person, place, event or topic of their choosing.
What’s interesting about Deep Dive? At least three things: 1) Deep Dive relies on the extensive tagging system the Times uses for all its stories and makes the Times Topics pages possible. As part of the editing flow tags are applied to stories by editors or producers, with suggestions provided by an internal algorithm. Deep Dive looks for connections among topics.
2) Deep Dive’ unique interfact, where the related articles flow into the same frame as the main story when selected. You need never leave the page; jumping backwards or forwards in articles all happens in the same space. That’s a departure from the pageview-driven way most news sites are designed. But Deep Dive’s UI matches its underlying thesis: that individual articles are really pieces of a larger story, told in pieces over time and across bylines and datelines.
3) More interesting, Deep Dive will also allows users to save their “dives,” which would be constantly updated with new articles. What Deep Dives promises is an alert more directly based around a specific developing story.
But beyond those elements, the real promise of Deep Dive, though, is that it continues to show the Times’ flexibility in providing different ways for different kinds of readers to access its content...
read full article http://j.mp/x2SoPf visit also http://beta620.nytimes.com/projects/deep-dive/ 
Excerpted from article intro written by Lee Odden:
"A big part of what I do as an Internet Marketer centers around being able to consume large amounts of information or better, the right information, synthesizing it and using insights to help others make sense of the challenges and opportunities they face with marketing on the web.
Simply finding and sharing news ala basic ”curation” is a cheap commodity. Value comes from identifying bigger picture patterns and synthesizing that information into practical business advice. I like what Christian Adams said in a G+ thread, “When you have information overload across multiple channels you start to pick up on common threads and trending topics”. This is the essence of curation that creates value and there’s no substitute for human filtering.
As a professional, it’s essential for you to filter signal from a mass of noise to grow expertise in your core discipline as well as others. The question is, where do you get the information to stay current? How do you filter out the noise?
While some people still use RSS via Google Reader, usage of the traditional RSS feed has been displaced by Twitter lists, Google+ circles and more so what Shel Holtz called “curated collections” like what you can find at SmartBrief and PR Daily newsletters. Other curated news services mentioned include paper.li, Percolate, news.me, Pulse, FlipBoard.
Here are a few of the things that I do to stay current: 1. Read social feeds & email... 2. Meet with my right hand marketer... 3. Meet with our group of Account Managers..."
[read full article http://j.mp/wm4Ufm]
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello 
With today’s technology, it’s easier now than at any point in the history of the world to create content. But that doesn’t mean the best content is getting to the right audience.
That’s why editors and publishers need better tools to help them separate the wheat from the chaff.
Historically, as Cory Doctorow pointed out in an article he wrote for The Guardian, there have been three steps in the publishing paradigm: identifying stories (curating); writing them; and connecting those stories to the right audience.
While most technological advances have focused on making steps 2 and 3 easier, the first step (identifying stories) has gotten exponentially harder.
It’s become a numbers game. Writers send out more and more pitches because they’re competing with more and more pitches from other writers. Ultimately, this model is unsustainable.
The simplest way to cut down on low-quality pitches is by imposing a $2 to $3 charge to put some “tension” on submissions and that will decrease spam.
The other way to make life easier for editors is through technology. Cloud computing has drastically decreased the cost of creating powerful curation tools that empower editors to curate and edit.
[read full article http://j.mp/y7T4d0]
Excerpted from article:
"Today we are excited to introduce our Topical Browser, a new content discovery experience, powered by the collective curation efforts of the Paper.li community.
Now, for the first time, we are combining our publisher’s editorial skills with Paper.li's unique content analysis engine to provide a new transparency to content discovery: a curated, filtered, noiseless experience that we call the Paper.li Topical Browser.
The Paper.li Topical Browser opens the door for anyone to discover and explore content spanning more than 20,000 curated topics, ranging from mainstream to niche.
It provides a great way for you to discover more of the outstanding Paper.li publishers who are truly passionate about these topics..."
[read full article http://j.mp/zQmHS0]
Launched in December 2011, Juxtapost is here to help you remember all the amazing things you see while you browse the web. With all its infinite options, managing what you find has become a massive undertaking.
Juxtapost provides members with easy-to-use tools to “bookmark” the photos into categorized PostBoards (collection of posts) they can easily maintain, even if their collection spirals to hundreds of websites.
The discovery aspect of Juxtapost is just as simple. Members browse the streams of other members to see what they’re posting and have the option to comment, share or re-post items to their PostBoards. The power of social discovery becomes readily apparent when you begin to follow people/friends with your similar style or tastes, it’s like browsing the web all your friends.
There are lots of social discovery websites available, but Juxtapost stands out from the crowd for offering a few unique tools to help streamline the process.
1) Easy Facebook Sign-Ups
Juxtapost automatically attempts to fill a description to save them the hassle by evaluating the content on the page and choosing an appropriate description for the image.
Nearly all social discovery websites force you to make your finds public, Juxtapost gives you the option. Set your PostBoards private so that you can plan a surprise event or keep some discoveries personal. (it is no possible with Pinterest)
Juxtapost indexes the color palette of the image so that it can organize searches by color.
Juxtapost gives members the ability to export all posted data to an Excel spreadsheet. It makes sense to take your collection with you and use as you see fit.
[Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello] Try out it here: http://www.juxtapost.com/
Excerpted from the article:
"Beepl is a questions and answers service, which launches today. Co-founder is convinced that Beepl can take on the the so-called Q&A field better than Quora. But how?
Unlike Quora where the questions come first and can thus make the service look quite chaotic, it’s Beepl’s aim to first find the experts in a subject who can answer the questions. It does this by applying its semantic engine to users’ interests as surfaced through various social media profiles, such as their Facebook likes, LinkedIn skills and recent tweets, along with their explicit activity on Beepl itself.
To continue the inevitable comparison to Quora, Beepl is more like social media rather than a wiki-type resource. Why? Because the experts it surfaces are always changing and improving, so the answers can be ever more relevant..."
[read full article http://j.mp/xWAuAT and/or check out official website: http://www.beepl.com]
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello 
Below are some of the expected trends this year about Content Marketing.
- Crowdsourcing for Content Creation: It became a valid business model to tap into people's willingness to create content for free or for low pay in return for online exposure. Now, companies of all sizes are eager to try such crowdsourcing to generate content.
- Content Curation, Aggregation and Syndication: Content curation also will be hot in 2012, but content aggregation and online syndication are losing some heat with the release of the Google Panda Farmer algorithm changes last year. Unlike aggregation and syndication that simply republish links or content, human beings select what they consider the best content in their areas of expertise, share links to the original content and add their own commentary. It's such added value, along with convenience, that is giving content curation momentum.
- Brands as Media: More companies are beginning to understand that social media sites and tools aren't the place for their usual marketing pitches. Instead, companies realize they need to think like publishers, not marketers, to connect their brands with online audiences.
- Content Marketing Integration: Silo marketing is out in 2012, and complete marketing integration is in. There has never been a more pivotal year for companies to take off their blinders and fully mesh all aspects of their marketing--online and offline, traditional and social.
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello [read full article http://j.mp/zpZ5k4] 
The volume of information on the Web is overwhelming.
Social media has revolutionized the way information is published and shared. Social media has also become a foundation of information discovery and consumption.
Tools that Use the Social Graph to Filter Content: - Social Networks... - Search Engines... - Discovery Engines...
It is increasingly easier to publish information and increasingly difficult to consume it. This lies behind a tendency to rely on the “social graph” to filter information on the user’s behalf. Information consumption is largely limited by who we “follow” online. Effectively, we give them our vote of confidence and subscribe to their information published.We are experiencing a huge wave of tools providing social media discovery. However, relying on social media for information consumption has a series of limitations.
1. Dependence on social creates tunnel vision... 2. It is hard to follow the “right” people... 3. The user’s perspective is not challenged, instead it is reinforced... 4. Professional and personal content tend to be mixed... 5. Lists, Circles and Subscriptions aren’t reducing the noise...
[Originally scooped and curated by Jan Gordon - further editing by Giuseppe Mauriello]
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/yKZdG6 Via janlgordon |
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