Robin Good: Google Hangouts On-Air is finally live and accessible inside my Google + account.
You can check whether you can now live stream from Google+ and YouTube by logging in inside your G+ account and creating a new hangout. If you see the checkmark allowing you to activate the "on-air" feature, you are all set.
Find out now: https://plus.google.com/hangouts ; Via Robin Good 
Google Plus recently adds cover photos to profile page similar from Facebook Timeline. If you add the amazing cover photos to your Google+ profile page your profile page looks nice. Here the 10 sites to find amazing Google Plus cover photos... Via contentmarketingdigest 
Every time we share info about ourselves across various networks, it is revealed to everyone even though it is meant only for a select few. As a result, people or organizations outside our network could easily exploit such info about us even without us knowing. Must users be willing to pit having a healthy online social presence against a firm hold of their privacy? Via Nik Peachey, Dr Jill Jameson, Jose H. Flores 
Robin Good: Surfmark is a new content curation service introducing some innovative and forward-looking features.
Surfmark in fact provides not only standard capabilities to easily capture, collect and organize content from any web page, but it adds intelligently alternative display formats to allow the exploration of such collections in multiple ways.
Another key innovative feature of Surfmark is its ability to generate bibliographies and summaries of content collections.
Surfmark allows social collaborative curation, history of all edits made, and the ability to share publicly or keep a collection private.
Collections can be downloaded in PDF or text formats and all pages saved in a collection are fully preserved with all the formatting and links intact so that you can refer back to exactly what you saw.
Free to use.
FAQ: http://blog.surfmark.net/surfmark-help/ ;
Try out and more info: http://www.surfmark.com/ ;
(thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for discovering this) Via Robin Good 
Google Docs is a free online office suite by Google. It allows users to create, edit and store on office documents online. In addition it allows real-time collaboration on documents with other users. Via Let's Learn IT 
This new service lets you sync files from your Mac and your Google Docs folder interchangeable. It's incredibly useful if you like to type out your documents in the cloud and use your iPad to do work, and it's a worthy alternative to using iWork and iCloud. We’ll take you through the process of enabling this new service on your Mac, and we'll also show you how to properly encrypt your files while they're in the cloud. 
Are you sick of sites like Facebook and Google+ keeping your activities secret in their private walled garden? 
Surprise, surprise! On 11th April Google+ made a new announcement. Google+ now has more than 170 million users! ... 
This is a really useful tool that allows you to create and annotate on PDF documents. This is really useful if you want to fill in PDF forms without printing them up tc. Via Nik Peachey 
This is a great free app for creating step by step instruction guides. It combines video, images and text. Also a great tool for learning how to do something new. The instruction guides can be viewed online or on mobile devices. Via Nik Peachey 
Web applications have come a long way.They used to be amateur imitations of their desktop counterparts, with only one or two functions and not at all... |
Microsoft apre al pubblico i suo social network So.cl. Il nuovo servizio di casa Redmond si presenta come un misto tra un motore di ricerca e un social network. Ecco tutto quello che c'è da sapere sul lancio di So.cl. Via Guglielmo Cornelli 
PDFVue is a useful tool for editing and commenting on PDF documents. You can annotate them and add sticky note comments etc. Via Nik Peachey 
Robin Good: Created by Samuel Clay as an open-source app, NewsBlur is a fully working web-based Google Reader alternative that allows you to subscribe, aggregate and read to up to 64 RSS feeds for free.
NewsBlur provides for each feed an "original", a "feed" and a "story" view allowing you to see the content both as it appeared on the original site as well as stripped out of its web design template.
Recommended. 9/10
Browser extension for Safari, Firefox and Chrome: http://www.newsblur.com/reader/autologin/RobinGood/5d9fcb76cb08?next=goodies
Download free iPhone app: http://www.newsblur.com/iphone/ ;
Read more about it inside this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862692
Try it out now: http://www.newsblur.com/ ; Via Robin Good 
Excerpted from article: "Today curation takes on a different meaning. Organizations have evolved from collecting artifacts to digital curation of media and content. Anyone and everyone can, and do, curate using everything from bookmarking sites to social networks. "Social curation," as we call it, is simply the act of sharing, categorizing, and spreading content to others. The content can be your own or someone else's. And, because you are sharing content that lives in its place of origin via linking, it is not considered stealing.
Why do people spend hours online bookmarking, pinning, and reposting? We all want to be recognized for our expertise, talents, and savvy. Posting content we care about displays our creativity, interests, opinions, and personality. On the receiving end, people enjoy discovering and exploring things that are highly relevant and interesting.
In this article, we'll discuss how marketers can get in on the social curation boom in a meaningful way.
There are a lot of websites out there offering curation-type services. To get a clear sense of how a brand might leverage curation, we can break them down into categories. - Social bookmarking and news; - Sharing; - Aggregation and syndication networks.
Here are eight ways your brand can get in on the action.
1. Become a curator creator: This tactic is strictly for warriors because it takes time, diligence, and a step outside the marketing box to become one with a community. Becoming a curator will mean rolling up your sleeves to create your own Pinterest board or other social network profile.
2. Create an interest-based content strategy: As marketers, we tend to base our communications around products and target markets. To be an awesome content curator or creator, you'll want to push that into the back of your mind and focus on interests. This can be accomplished with some listening, observation, and information collection on what your customers care about when they aren't out buying your product.
3. Optimize for popular sharing topics...
4. Treat photography as being as important as copy: Video and photography is as valuable as an article. When you're writing your next brilliant article, put time into article images so people are inspired to not only share the article, but also to pin it on Pinterest.
5. Make something worth sharing: For curation, consider its lasting value and how it fits into popular topics and interest lists. When you see their eyes light up and they send it forward into their communities, you've done your job well.
6. Make it sharable: Add sharing buttons to your content on your blog, website, shopping cart, and email campaigns. People will do things that require one-click.
7. Make friends with influencers: Extend your influencer outreach to leaders in Reddit, Pinterest, and Tumblr communities so that when you have something great to share, you've aligned with partners to help get your content out.
8. Post from the inside: People just want to get to know the people behind the brand...."
Read full and long article here: http://j.mp/K1zGxl
Via Giuseppe Mauriello Introducing the all-new Google Drive. Now access your files, even the big ones, from wherever you are. Share them with whomever you want, and edit them toget... Via Jose H. Flores Robin Good: NotesCloud is a new curation service which allows you to collect, organize, and share any type of content you have into beautiful magazine-like layouts.
“Imagine a tool that is always at hand when you stumble upon or dream up something interesting,” NotesCloud uses the metaphor of a multi-section notebook to organize snippets and notes. People can create their own hierarchies of notebooks, sections, and pages as they curate their topics. Unlike Pinterest or Evernote, NotesCloud’s structured storage metaphor encourages some organization, so it’s not just a “shoebox” full of random clippings." (Source: Venturebeat)
Notescloud is equipped with a set of browser-based clipping tools for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, that make it possible to easily grab and save any content you’re looking at online with just two clicks. The content curated and organized with NotesCloud can be accessed from tablets and smartphones as well as desktop browsers. Free to use.
Check this video: http://www.notescloud.com/LaunchVideo
More info: http://www.notescloud.com Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello 
You can use this simple free tool to create your own magazine based around a topic. You don't have to write anything, you can collect and curate information and links to videos, images and articles from around the web. Via Nik Peachey 
This site gives you example pronunciation or words and also finds videos with subtitles that show the words being used in context. Via Nik Peachey 
Tracky is a social collaboration platform that bridges the gap between your personal and professional circles. Via Ana Cristina Pratas |
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