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HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet. Your LiveBinders Shelf. Atlascamp 2011 - Get in the Flow with Activity Streams - Documentation. Create a Timeline from your Online Social Life. Learn how you can aggregate all your online social networks – from Flickr to Foursquare to Facebook to YouTube – into a beautiful timeline. If you are someone like me who has a presence across virtually all the online social sites that are out there – from Flickr to Foursquare to Facebook to Twitter to YouTube – you’re probably going to love Memolane (short for "Memory Lane"). Memolane will effortlessly pull all your pictures, videos, blogs, tweets, check-ins and everything else from the various online social networks and turns them into one beautiful and intuitive timeline – see example . Just create an account, add all your social profiles and within minutes, your timeline should be live.
It uses OAuth to connect to your social network and you therefore won’t have to share your credentials anywhere. Web Curator Tool. The Web Curator Tool homepage: The Harvest queue, showing two running harvests: The Target search page:
Trends And Predictions For 2010 And Beyond - Part 2. New Media Trends and Predictions for 2010 and Beyond - Part 2 by Robin Good 1. Curation versus aggregation represents human web versus machine web... Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys.
Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context. Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it's still not curation but aggregation. Pearltrees is a Site to Share Information & Interests. Pearltrees is a site that enables you to submit pearls which are websites, into a pearl tree. The unique concept of this website is to meet others with the same interests, and to locate similar topics of interests. Creating pearl trees is a personal choice of topic such as work, videos, or even an environmental pearl tree. When you use the search tool, you will be led to pearls that you are looking for.
Submitting pearls can be done quite easily by downloading the toolbar for your browser. You simply click on pearl, choose the tree you created to place the pearl into, and the pearl can be viewed by clicking the button called reveal. The visual concept of this web application is to view your interests in a design similar to a tree, and each pearl is a leaf. When you click on the pearl, another screen appears. Pearltrees - the world of your interests. Dive Into HTML5. Bloomstein @ SXSW 2011 Creation, curation, and the ethics of content strategy. Editors as Curators: What's Taking So Long? Content Curation Strategies for Corporate Learning « Media1derLand. Welcome to the legacy Media1derland blog site.
Please visit our new site for the latest on performance improvement for today’s workplace. In my previous blog post, Your New Role: Learning Content Curator, I underscored the need for corporate learning professionals to begin to let go of content creation and start nurturing a content curation mindset. According to global marketing strategy guru Rohit Bhargava, a Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. What Is a Curator in Chief? Neil Sanderson is the Chief Curator at Eqentia--a software platform service that enables professional users and organizations to easily aggregate, curate and republish the news that's important to them.
Eqentia's sites are both public and private--with some of the more public ones including Visability Marketing (visabilitymarketing.com) and Slices of Boulder (slicesofboulder.com) which is a local news website for Boulder, Colorado. More than 50 of the portals can be found at portal.eqentia.com/channels. I asked Neil what a 'Chief Curator' does. "It's much like being an Editor, except that I do not commission original reporting or writing.
" Power tools for content curation. Maybe you don't have the resources to develop a lot of content, or maybe you're a professional association that wants to serve its members better by being super helpful.
Add that there are many more content creators, inside and outside organizations, and you see how curating information as content strategy could be a very elegant option. Noting the evolution on the World Wide Web quickly to show you a pattern that went in lockstep with use. You had forums and discussion boards, many still very active, Web sites, then journals, which evolved into blogs with RSS (real simple syndication) capability to package and read feeds, social bookmarking and networks, and then media sites to upload and view videos, photographs, etc. Each set of tools building on the next, thriving when filling a specific need, and evolving or morphing into something else as appropriate.
Giving sense to our web experience. Citizens!
Infobesity, millions of tweets. Shaping the Future of Curation. Session Title: The Future of Content CurationSpeakers: Steve Rosenbaum, Eric Hippeau, Francine Hardaway, Ed LambletDate: Thursday May 26Time: 11:30AMLocation: Jacob Javits Center 1A18 … by Francine Hardaway “Information overload” is an inherent part of the daily experience for most of us – especially online.
The web has disintermediated the flow of information, making it easy for anyone to easily receive and share news, videos, comments, and other content. Content Curation. Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews. With its slick visual interface for bookmarking content, Pearltrees is unique enough that I’ve been both impressed and slightly skeptical that a mass audience will actually use it.
But it looks like the site has found plenty of users. The French startup just announced that it crossed two big milestones in March: It has more than 100,000 users curating links, and it received more than 10 million pageviews. Not only does that show the concept is resonating, but it also suggests Pearltrees could reach the scale where it can build a real business around advertising or by offering premium accounts for publishers.
When you share links on Pearltrees, they show up as little circles called Pearls. (The site can also automatically add links that you share on Twitter.) Pearltrees launched in December 2009, and it recently enhanced the social aspect with a new teams feature that lets groups of people create Pearltrees collaboratively. Pearltrees has raised 3.8 million euros in funding. The new billion-dollar opportunity: real-time-web curation - scobleizer's posterous. Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011 Here is a guest article by Partice Lamothe - CEO of Pearltrees (Pearltrees is a consulting client of SVW.) This is a lightly edited version of "La troisième frontière du Web" that appeared in the magazine OWNI - Digital Journalism - March 2010.
Welcome to the Age of Curation. Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps coined a phrase Friday for something many have been talking about since Apple launched the iPad about six weeks ago.
“Curated computing” refers to the way Apple staff examines each piece of software written for iPhone OS devices before allowing it into (or blocking it from) the App Store. Epps is almost certainly not among the first 10,000 people on the planet to observe that the iPhone OS does not allow users to install whatever programs they wish, unless the devices are jailbroken.
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