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(2) What are the best content curation tools for daily use. “Curation” gets six tweets per hour…right now! « Marketing to Business Executives Blog. Take a look at Thoora, which helps users “Discover What the World is Talking About.” Thoora, which calls itself a news discovery service, finds what is hot in blogs, twitter and traditional news media and displays the stories in real time ordered from mosts buzz to least. Tweets per hour and the “sparkline” of tweet history is shown for each story. When I searched for curation, it came up with six tweets per hour and I found a story I’d missed despite diligent following of the topic. So if you are looking to leverage the wisdom of the crowd in your research or uncover new voices, take a look at this site. It’s free. Thoora’s crowdsourcing of the news isn’t unique, although it had a lot less company when it was launched in October 2009.

What different uses do you see for crowdsourced news vs topically curated news? Like this: Like Loading... Is Curating Social Media the New Facebook? There is speculation that soon we will all get fed up with Facebook. That we’ll rise up against transparency and demand privacy and control over our drunken photos, frustrated updates and the fact that we “like” Glee. Goodbye Facebook? Despite the fact that he denies wanting to take Facebook public, Mark Zuckerberg has given us the tools to expose our lives piece by piece. Fueled by rumors of his demise, many are predicting the end of Facebook, just as 2011 begins. In his recent post in The Telegram, Will Heaven writes: So Facebook continues to grow, but the tide seems to be turning. But what if the era of Facebook is merely giving way to social media curation? A New Generation of Curation That’s what the folks at eegoes are betting on.

Users can customize their views, to see “Everything”, or only view “Videos”, “Pictures”, “Notes”, “Events”, “Links” or “Interests.” MOVIECLIPS - Watch Free Films Online - Hollywood Movie Clips, Trailers & Behind the Scenes. Social Media Minute: Facebook's Continued Dominance, Yelp 'Checks in' for Discounts - Page 2. Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format: Facebook Accounts For 25% of Page Views in U.S. Startup Allows You To Track In-Person Twitter Interactions Yelp Gets Into the Check-in Offer Game Facebook Alternative Diaspora Goes Private Alpha Facebook Accounts For 25% of Page Views in U.S. There is a constant battle going on in the United States by Internet content companies who want to be the online destination. There are huge incentives for being a top web property because advertising audiences and higher rates come to those online properties.

Google, Facebook, MSN and Yahoo seem to be jostling in position, but HitWise just released numbers that will shake up the competition. Facebook now accounts for 1 of 4 page views in the United States. It seems every few weeks there's a new statistic or related story that shows Facebook's rising dominance. Startup Allows You To Track In-Person Twitter Interactions. Wisdom 2.0 Conference - Living with awareness, wisdom, and compassion - Home. 5 Steps to Content Curation.