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Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future — Tech News and Analysis
Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters. More than anything, this is perhaps the single biggest hole that exists not just in Twitter but Facebook and other services as well: the need to give users more ways of filtering the massive amounts of information that keep flooding their activity streams and other social-media inboxes. There are so many ways of producing and sharing content but so few good ways of filtering. As has been reported elsewhere, Summify says it’s mothballing its service (a decision that was not received warmly by many users), and the team of five will join the growing ranks at Twitter’s new headquarters.
Social bookmarking statistics | Marketing/Ecommerce Research
Which social bookmarking services are seeing the most activity from their user base? There’s a few surprises in these statistics from September. The following data is taken from AddThis.com . AddThis is a great social bookmarking application that I talk more about in my article “ Social bookmarking effect “. Given how commonly AddThis is used on sites these days, the above figures are probably a fairly accurate representation of the bigger picture. AddThis tracks around 36 bookmarking services.
Analysis: What Type of Content Is Most Popular On Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon?
Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more… We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site (Note: this is 500+ stories for each site not the total). Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon and Propeller all seem to only include the popular stories in their feeds.How To Create Value, Give Visibility To Others and Make Money By Curating Presentations: The Note&Point Example | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
Excerpted from article: " To learn more about the importance of curation in today’s fashion industry, here are three emerging fashion startups in New York City and Los Angeles. “In Manhattan, we all have really small closets so we see this as an option to refresh your wardrobe...”. Material Wrld focuses on fashion bloggers, creative professionals, and style enthusiasts spanning college students, young professionals and new moms. “The ideal Material Wrld user is already showing off their style online through their blog, Instagram, Twitter, and other sites/apps,” says Rie. 2) Of a Kind ( http://www.ofakind.com /) This NYC fashion startup has been bringing high-end, exclusive fashion to the masses.
Lately, we’ve watched as images – from photos to infographics – have taken over the web. As photos take over Facebook newsfeeds and Pinterest explodes, I see so many people trying to accomodate an image-centric process into their digital curation. Have I lost you yet with all the buzz words and slang? Stick with me. My point is, for nonprofits at least, not every story has an image; sometimes what is incredible is the larger story we pull together or the context and annotation we can give to news and events. In the craze over Pinterest, I think people have overlooked the evolution social bookmarking site Delicious has made.
Pinterest or Delicious: Social Bookmarking Coming back as Digital Curation
Yuri Milner, the VC whose Russian Digital Sky Technologies (DST) group has put money into Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, was quoted at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit as saying, Curation is the next big thing. Said Milner: "The question is, 'How do you select what's relevant for you?' And my guess is that it's probably going to be 50% driven by your network and 50% driven by algorithms." Upon hearing Milner's prophetic words, thousands of PowerPoint decks were reworked overnight to find a way to edge the word "Curation" into executive summaries. What Yuri meant, and what venture is now scouring the incubators and business plan competitions for, is a way to manage the madness that is promiscuous production of data.
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When is the social curation bubble going to burst? — Tech News and Analysis
You just can’t move for social curation services right now. The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now. With this swirl of activity, then, it’s no surprise to hear that Parisian service Pearltrees — slogan “collect, organize, discover” — has just raised another $6 million of funding, led by local conglomerate Groupe Accueil.
Curation: Is a bubble forming? | memeburn
As the subject of curation takes off Venture Capitalists are funding more “curation” startups which could likely lead to a bubble in this sector. VCs are beginning to talk publicly about “curation” which means they are telling startups what type of companies they are looking to fund in the hopes that someone will create those companies. For example, Fred Wilson, the New York-based VC recently wrote about curation: “I’m a big fan of curation in these services.
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.
Mike Jones: Now Trending... Curation
Curation has been at the core of our plan since we relaunched Myspace in November. We saw empowering users with the tools to share information about the content they love as the next step in the social web. There are other sites that agree.
This is a guest post by Scoop.it CEO Guillaume Decugis, explaining why he believes the curated web should be the future of the Social Web. Social Media lets everyone speak all the time. So what happens?
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Social Bookmarking And Curation: Pinterest, Pearltrees, GimmeBar | Ypulse
The Web has gotten so big and so social that regular bookmarking has become practically useless. We needed a better way to find and organize the content that meets our interests. Sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon are helpful at suggesting interesting items, but less so in the curation and sharing of one’s own Web collection. Enter Pinterest, GimmeBar, and Pearltrees, the latest darlings of the social bookmarking world, which are gathering momentum with Millennial users who are all about sharing what they’re into.The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce Brian Solis
Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation . Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net , a realtime video curation network. At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry’s most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword.With news this week that Facebook is beginning to roll out its new Timeline feature , it reminds us that so much of what’s captured on the world’s most popular social networking site are our fondest memories. And if you look at your newsfeed in any given day, it will often reflect the present – what’s happening in the world around you today. Typically, however, there isn’t a lot of discussion about more aspirational topics, and what people are hoping for in the future.
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