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Create a Timeline from your Online Social Life
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.Pete Cashmore of Mashable wrote a few days ago that 2010 is going to be the year of distraction and, as Steve Rubel writes in his Posterous lifestream " ...the deluge of information is only going to increase, which is going to make reaching people harder than ever. Curation is one of the most powerful trends emerging out of the ongoing collapse of the traditional news gathering and distribution system. There is so much information out there! ...and it keeps increasing.
Trends And Predictions For 2010 And Beyond - Part 2
Curation versus aggregation represents human web versus machine web... | ZDNet
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. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museum is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection.
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.
Pearltrees is a Site to Share Information & Interests | Webupon
Bloomstein @ SXSW 2011 Creation, curation, and the ethics of content strategy
From Monet to MTV, what practices connect the salons of Paris with Danger Mouse, NFL.com, and Facebook? More importantly, what’s your place in that continuum? If you work with content, embrace yo From Monet to MTV, what practices connect the salons of Paris with Danger Mouse, NFL.com, and Facebook? More importantly, what’s your place in that continuum?
Editors as Curators: What's Taking So Long? - Recovering Journalist
These are tough times for editors. Senior editors are being forced to make deep, painful cuts in their newsrooms. Assignment editors are being phased out at some papers, seen as extraneous layers in the production process. Copy editors are seeing their jobs consolidated or even outsourced.
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. As content curators for corporate learning, we are tasked with providing context and filters for learning content that not only guide learners to the appropriate formal learning opportunities, but also timely informal assets their peers and managers develop and publish. By donning the content curator hat on top of a strong foundation in instructional design and performance consulting, we open doors to a new incarnation of interactive online learning. We begin to break through the traditional boundaries previously imposed on learning content.
Content Curation Strategies for Corporate Learning « Media1derLand
What Is a Curator in Chief? | Fast Company
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. 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 .
Each set of tools building on the next, thriving when filling a specific need, and evolving or morphing into something else as appropriate. By now, like most people, you have linked to and shared information, photos, videos, quotes, posts, and stories on your Facebook profile wall, Twitter, blog posts, and other social networks. Real time logs I suppose I'm quite old fashioned to be still using a blogging platform in a blog format to publish content.
Power tools for content curation
Giving sense to our web experience
Citizens! Infobesity, millions of tweets. Data, information. During the last 10 years, we said that in order to make our contents valuable, we needed to make them viral. During the last 5 years, we realized that critics & aggregators were probably key in the value process of the social web.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.
Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews | VentureBeat
The new billion-dollar opportunity: real-time-web curation - scobleizer's posterous
I've been playing all day with the new Threadsy, the new Seesmic desktop, the unreleased Brizzly, the new TweetDeck desktop, and the new PeopleBrowsr. "Oh, Scoble, you are being stupid again," I can just hear some of you saying. But hear me out. This isn't just the demented discussion of someone who has gotten way too little sleep due to the birth of his new son a few days ago. No, this is the demented discussion of someone who has an itch to scratch that isn't being scratched.Curation - The Third Web Frontier - SVW
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. The article argues that the founding pricinciples of the Internet are only now being implemented and that the next frontier is in organizing, or curating, the Internet. Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring.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 . For that reason, it’s tempting to write off her coinage as an attention-grabbing rehash of a well-worn meme — especially because she plans to take this show on the road at conferences to talk about this observation. That knowledge itself is anything but revelatory to anyone who has been paying even slight attention to what has already been said about the iPhone OS over the past few years. However, Epps is onto something with this word, curated .
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