Social Media Content Curation

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.

The Washington Post Company this morning debuted its free, personalized, social news site and aggregator Trove in public beta.

Trove aggregates news across subjects of interest and important headlines of the day, from more than 10,000 sources.

The news site factors in a reader’s likes and dislikes, combining algorithms with ‘expertise from the newsroom’.

Trove takes advantage of Facebook Connect to pull in a user’s interests as outlined by his or her Facebook profile to help jump start the personalization part of the equation.

The Washington Post promises to add more social media features and site capabilities to the mix in the coming months.

Ever since its launch in November 2010, Blekko has been on a mission to eliminate spam and content farms from search results.
The human-curated search engine, which is also known both for using actual mammals to edit search results and for its employ of slashtags for easy categorization, announced in March that it had banned over 1 million spammy domain names from its site. Using a new algorithm it calls “AdSpam”, Blekko investigates the quality of a doman’s content, as well as the type of ads it includes, to identify those of the lowest quality. Those that don’t pass muster get the boot — which should be music to any searcher’s ears.