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Resturant Reviews. Food-blog. Food blog. Livefyre - Home. eYeka Europe & USA - video contests, animation contests, design contests for filmmakers, animators, graphic designers, and creators. The co-creation community. Sharing Stream, Real-time Sharing, Trending Shares - ShareThis Stream. Trending Content API Provides access to real-time socially trending content across the ShareThis Publisher Network of 2M+ websites. Overview Users sharing content on social networks, or friends and followers clicking on shared links indicate a measure of social popularity for content. We refer to this as Social Reach. When combined with velocity (i.e. how fast the Social Reach is occurring) the API delivers content that is in essence viral at that moment based on Social Reach and velocity.

How it works 1. Do you want to see the API in action? Base Endpoint URL Get Live Trending Content This is the method for requesting the latest list of URLs that are socially trending based on the sharing activity of all users in the given time period, domain and/or topic. Call description: Response description:

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Bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener. SwiftRiver | Verifying and Filtering News (FOSS) IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on you. Keep Readers on your Site – Apture.com. Zingerman's Delicatessen | www.zingermansdeli.com | You Really C. A Freelancer Marketplace | Pick.im. Kapost | Crowdsource your Content.

Jobs for Bloggers - ProBlogger Job Board. How to Create a Web Content Strategy For Your Company. These days, it's no longer enough to have an inviting storefront and amazing products on your shelves, whether physical or digital. Fueled by social media, with which even the search engines scrambling to keep up, the Web is now happening in real time. How can a small company stay competitive? One critical component of the answer to that question is something that most businesses have never had to consider doing in the past: become a publisher. Your Site Needs a Blog Having somebody design and build your website is only half the battle.

That site needs regularly updated content and the easiest way to make that happen is with a blog. First, you'll need a blog content management system (CMS) like Wordpress.org or Movable Type. When you first start out, your company blog should be set up as a subdirectory (www.company.com/blog) rather than a subdomain (blog.company.com).

Not a Writer? I know what you're saying: Hey, I'm an entrepreneur, not a writer. Develop a Content Mission. The Enterprise Social Network. Timeline Maker Software | Create Professional Timeline Charts - By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs? ? Social Edge. Welcome to SkollWorldForum.org former Social Edge users! Social Edge was an online community created by the Skoll Foundation from 2003 - 2013. The site has since closed as we have focused efforts on the new Skoll World Forum platform. However, if you were a Social Edge user, you will be pleased to know that all of your articles and comments have been saved and can be browsed below. In addition, if there is a specific piece of content or a particular author you are looking for, please use the search bar at the top of the screen.

We have moved over 2000 posts from SocialEdge.org to SkollWorldForum.org, and are constantly adding new, relevant content. Feel free to browse through our contributors and original content, or visit our homepage and customize your experience by filtering our content for exactly what you're looking for. We hope you enjoy your time on the site! Sincerely, The Skoll World Forum Online Team. Oursignal. Dig Up Political Influence | Poligraft. MicroStrategy. The most comprehensive business intelligence platform in the industry. MicroStrategy is the world’s most comprehensive and trusted BI platform, designed from the ground up and proven to support the most demanding analytics applications. Our unified, organically developed, architecture is built on the core of a single foundational metadata—ensuring trust across any style of analytics and easy scalability as your business grows.

Watch the webcast Industrial-strength. Any style of analytics at any scale. We wrote the book on analytics. Download it now Build once, deploy anywhere. Business users consume data in many different ways—web portals, mobile devices, emails, and documents. High performance in-memory business intelligence. Over 2,000 organizations use MicroStrategy’s in-memory engine to achieve sub second response times for any query on massive data stores. Learn more High performance business intelligence. 6 reasons why MicroStrategy offers the highest performance BI platform: Buzzd Aggregates Check-Ins From Foursquare, Gowalla And Others I. We’ve written about the social city and nightlife mobile app, buzzd, which pulls its data from Twitter and other buzzd users, for a bigger picture of the places that are hot in a given location.

The startup just released an Android app in December and today is launching a new version of its iPhone and BlackBerry apps that integrates location-based services in the mix. The buzzd network compiles information from its base of over a half-million users, Twitter, and other real-time sources to provide users with activity updates for almost half a million venues across the United States, the U.K. and Canada.

You download the app and it will bring up a list of venues close to you that are currently popular based on people talking about them on Twitter and Buzzd. The integration with these services makes a lot of sense for Buzzd, as the app essentially tells you where the most frequented places are within your location. Yubby.com - find, collect and publish your favorite online video. Grow VC > About. About What is Grow VC? Grow Venture Community (Grow VC) by Grow VC Group, is the first global, transparent, community-based platform dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.

Grow VC enables great ideas and great teams to get visibility with the right investing audience, funding and support earlier. Grow VC is more than crowd funding, it’s a nurturing ecosystem where entrepreneurs can connect with experts, funders, team members, new customers and partners to realize their ideas. Grow VC Group International Headquarters is located in Hong Kong, with offices in the US, UK and Finland. 1 Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9HT, United Kingdom845 Third Avenue, New York City, 10022, New York3905 Two Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Hong Kong We as a global organization are located all over the world and constantly grown.

Who are we? We also have an advisory board to help us out with our business strategy and relations in different regions. Why does Grow VC exist? AnyChart. Real-time Discovery Engine - YourVersion: Discover Your Version. Chartle.net. TV | Interview: Alex Karp, Founder and CEO of Palantir. My Starbucks Idea. Buzzd Aggregates Check-Ins From Foursquare, Gowalla And Others I. Omgili Forum Search - Find out what people are saying. iCurrent - A Personalized News Aggregator | iCurrent. Make stories - storify.com. Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & Surveys. Welcome to PostUp. Can social media make your company smarter? | Analysis & Opinion | You’ve started a fan page for your company on Facebook. You’ve attracted a few followers on Twitter. You’ve got a presence on Foursquare, and you’ve started offering deals to customers through Groupon. Seems you’ve got that whole social media thing figured out.

Or do you? While social media presents, first and foremost, a cheap marketing and advertising option to help businesses generate leads and drive up revenue, some experts insist it’s about more than just setting up a few profiles and then moving on. “Social technologies are to me holistic technologies, a lot like PCs or the Internet,” said Scott Klososky, a social media business consultant who’s releasing three new books on the subject this year.

“I tell clients that they need to be using social tools as much internally as they do externally, as much to cut costs as they do to drive revenue.” “That’s raising the IQ of the organization. Social media also has the potential to alter the way businesses manage customer relations. Mining, Mapping and Visualizing the Blogosphere. Written Articles, Link Building, and Content Management with The Content Authority. AmCharts. Yoowalk - Walk around the web - Browser-based virtual world, fre. Trunk.ly | Home. Humans vs machines: Aggregation vs curation. 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 So what is curation? Here is my definition: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection. Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic. - Pearltrees is dynamic. How Social Media Drives New Business: Six Case Studies. Businesses both big and small are flocking to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Foursquare. The fact is that a presence on these platforms not only allows companies to engage in conversations with consumers, but also serves as an outlet to drive sales through deals and coupons.

And while major brands like Starbucks, Virgin, and Levi’s have been participating in the social web for some time now, the rate of adoption among small businesses is increasing too. According to a recent University of Maryland study, social media adoption by small businesses has doubled from 12% to 24% in the last year. But as these businesses look to Facebook and Twitter to connect with customers, many are finding that some strategies work and some do not produce results.

We’ll be exploring these questions at a panel on Social Media and Businesses at our Social Currency CrunchUp on July 30. Kimball says he has no marketing budget and Twitter has been a great way to amass fans. Dr. Content curation : cr?er facilement son magazine en ligne avec Montage. Pour partager une passion ou une expertise sur le web, il y a eu les pages personnelles, les forums, puis les blogs, puis les micro-blogs puis les réseaux sociaux. Et maintenant il y a la curation, ou content curation, soit l’assemblage « intelligent » ou éditorialisé (ah merde, ce mot n’existe pas non plus dans mon dico Pour partager une passion ou une expertise sur le web, il y a eu les pages personnelles, les forums, puis les blogs, puis les micro-blogs puis les réseaux sociaux. Et maintenant il y a la curation, ou content curation, soit l’assemblage « intelligent » ou éditorialisé (ah merde, ce mot n’existe pas non plus dans mon dico Firefox) de contenus.

J’en ai déjà parlé à l’occasion de mon récent compte-rendu sur le Web’10. La curation de contenus pourrait être pour un individu « le blog pour les feignants » ou en tout cas pour ceux qui souhaitent avoir leur espace de connaissance sur la toile sans avoir le temps ni l’envie de bloguer. Mapping the Future of Cities & Education. The following is a guest post from Mark Belinsky of Digital Democracy. What does real-time mapping with New York City public school kids look like? Recently, Digital Democracy was invited to work with 120 young people from all 5 boroughs as part of the Department of Education’s “Future Now” program. Having gone through the NY Public School system myself, I jumped at the opportunity to help them innovate.

My task was to engage the kids in a conversation about what they’d like to see in the year 2020. Future Now is creating NYC’s Digital Storybook – a citywide youth project about school, community, and dreams. What better way to explore these themes than a mapping exercise to literally add and remove items in their communities and on their streets?

To give the kids a real-life example of the changes that are happening in their community, we built a modified Ushahidi map with data overlays from the NYC Data Mine and Recovery.gov. The biggest problem I ran into was spell-check. Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things. This blog was founded in 2003 on the philosophy of a read/write Web - a Web in which people can create content as easily as they consume it. This trend eventually came to be known as Web 2.0 - although others preferred Social Web - and was popularized by activities like blogging and social networking. It would be easy to say that the 'social' element is still the primary part of today's Web, since the popular products of this era enable you to say what's on your mind (Facebook), what's happening (Twitter), or where you are (Foursquare).

All of these are mostly social activities. But more significantly, these and other products output data that will increasingly be used to build personalized services for you. The more data there is, the better Web services will be at delivering personal value to you. How We Went Beyond Social So how did we arrive at a Web that is less about social and more about you? It's not how much content you consume that is important, it's about what you do with data. DoodleBuzz: Typographic News Explorer.

Ollie Acheson's Public Library. Socialnomics – Social Media Blog. Datasift - Tuning Your Tweets. UberVU - Track conversations wherever they go on the Web and rep. OneRiot.com - Realtime Search for the Realtime Web. A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited the offices of OneRiot in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. OneRiot has developed some pretty nifty technology that analyzes social media signals from popular networks like Twitter and Facebook to deliver ads that are relevant to consumers’ interests. As our teams debated the finer points of Big Data, Fast Data, and machine learning technologies, it became clear to us that we could find no better colleagues than the guys at OneRiot.

As a part of Walmart, we're continuing to work with the intensity of a technology startup. Today I’m pumped to share the news that, within 30 days of that first meeting, we have closed a transaction to acquire the key assets of OneRiot. As I have written before, here at @WalmartLabs we’re doing some amazingly interesting and impactful work at the intersection of social, mobile, and retail. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Tobias Peggs and the OneRiot team to @WalmartLabs! DataArt on BBC Backstage - Flared Music. Dipity. Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change. Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change Every time I read a story about why newspapers are failing that doesn’t mention the role of aggregation and curation in their troubles, it reminds me that something very fundamental is being missed, even by very sophisticated observers.

Aggregation is one of the core concepts of content presentation and commercialization. Any analysis of what happened to the record business, what is happening to newspapers, or the future of books and bookstores and magazines and TV that does not feature this concept prominently is almost certainly flawed.

Aggregation, of course, simply means pulling together things which are not necessarily connected. Curation is a term that has always referred to the careful selection and pruning of aggregates, such as for a museum or an art exhibition. NOcontent makes its way from its creator to the public without aggregation. Newspapers are obviously aggregators and curators. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Beyond the Handset. TED Blog.

Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There’s a difference, and it matters. Aggregation. Curation. Indexing. They’re all the same, aren’t they? Ask any serious online journalist or new media entrepreneur, and the answer will be quick and obvious: of course not! To get a sense of how I thought these terms were being increasingly lumped together, and some of the problems this might cause, I wanted to highlight the first couple paragraphs from the written materials distributed at the Online Media Legal Network’s “Journalism’s Digital Transition,” which was a conference I attended at Harvard a few weeks ago.

Are Google News, Huffington Post, and Newser.com the same? So what’s actually going on online? The first dozen paragraphs of TWIR are usually broken down into three or four “hot topics” that are big in the future of journalism world that week. Explore a discussion — a news development with commentary surrounding it, or ideas that spark responses and thus launch (or, usually, continue) a conversation. Let’s take one recent TWIR as an example. PostPost. Netvibes Developers Network. ShareThis. AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service. Grassroots Heritage » Blog Archive » From Curator to Socially-Distributed Curation (aka Crowdsourcing Curation) DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web. Free Web Toolbar.