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VCs Looking For "Curation" Startups - Is A Curation Bubble Forming?

Posted by Tom Foremski - March 31, 2011 As the subject of curation takes off VCs are funding more "curation" startups which could likely lead to a bubble in this sector.
http://www.margieclayman.com/lets-talk-about-how-to-start-curating-content in Share 6 One of the great things about my particular community, I’ve discovered, is that people aren’t afraid to ask me questions. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about curating content online both here and at 12most.com .

Let’s Talk About How to Start Curating Content

In 2006, when Jeff Howe hailed “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” the phenomenon was unfamiliar even to his Wired audience. Five years later, “crowdsourcing” is an overused buzzword and websites are swarming with free content.

Lessons in Curated Crowdsourcing: The YouTube Movie, Google News, and More

http://tech.co/curated-crowdsourcing-youtube-movie-google-news-2011-08#.Txeq-_mI39p

Three Tips for Curating Your Audience - John Sviokla

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/three_tips_for_curating_your_audience.html by John Sviokla | 8:25 AM June 11, 2010
I recently had a nice state-of-the-book industry chat with a friend who works at a higher education book publisher. Her job is essentially to think up and implement new products with existing content that her company retains the intellectual property rights to. During the conversation, we started reminiscing about college days when we needed to go to the reference section of the university library to check out a packet of photocopied ancillary material that the professor selected to augment the core texts.

Curating Content | Joseph Bachana's Blog | DPCI

http://www.databasepublish.com/blog/curating-content
http://www.revenuejournal.com/blog/mastering-curation-sam-decker-king-curation-lays-it-out

Mastering curation: Sam Decker, King of Curation, lays it out | Revenue Journal

Comments (3) Share: Sam Decker is a brilliant marketer who is now the CEO of a company called Mass Relevance .

Curation

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/curation.html We largely invest in consumer web services with a large number of engaged users where the users create the content. Services like this can become messy and hard to navigate.