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Paper.li. Vertical Acuity. Swift River. PSFK. Frequency. Memolane Video. CurationSoft. Timelines. Choosito. Beans. LearnFizz. Scrible. Curatr. Silk. Whit.li. Storination. Comparison of Curation Tools. Google Plus. Curata. PearlTrees. Scoop.It. The Surprising (Content) Future of Google+ 7 Content Curation Tools to Keep up With (and Share) Industry News. The world's first Content Logistics Platform. Intel AppUp and the problem of content curation. Home » News Intel held its annual AppUp Elements conference in Seattle last week.

Intel AppUp and the problem of content curation

Amongst the announcements including that of Tizen , one of the more relevant topics touched upon was content curation. The session led by Peter Biddle , GM AppUp Products , was a fresh look at the app curation model and how AppUp could innovate. The problem of app discovery is not one to be overlooked. Subjot: A Twitter alternative that lets you curate content. Do we really need more social networks?

Subjot: A Twitter alternative that lets you curate content

Looking at New York based Chris and Becky Carella’s latest venture, Subjot, the answer could well be ‘yes’. Twitpic founder Noah Everett just launched his own Twitter clone, Heello, which has been met with raised eyebrows and confusion. Heello feels far too much like a barebones version of Twitter, at least for the time being. Subjot, on the other hand, makes a decent effort in terms of setting itself apart. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Exclusive first look: Pearltrees iPad app enables new kind of content curation.

Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery. Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space.

Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery

Delicious has relaunched, and services we’ve written about like Snip.it are trying to get you to share all of your links on its service. Utopic goes a step further in helping you discover and share links, videos, music, and pictures that are relevant to you with its brand new gorgeous design and visual bookmarking launch. Curation tool Scoop.it adds topic discovery and Tumblr-style following. We first covered Scoop.it back at the very end of 2010.

Curation tool Scoop.it adds topic discovery and Tumblr-style following

The site lets you create topic-based pages, pulling in content from around the Web and featuring submissions from other users if you choose. Since then the social curation service has opened up support to a wider variety of content and now its rolling out new discovery features. The idea is that there are lots of interesting Scoop.it pages that get missed. The new features provide you with new options for uncovering new ‘scoops’ and keeping up to date with the pages you like. A new ‘Explore’ button offers site-wide search to uncover pages you might be interested in. See Percolate In Action [Video] Zotero: A Serious Online Research Tool — Online Collaboration. For years, I’ve been looking for a serious online research tool that would let me not just add to the ratnest of bookmarks and “favorites” I have, but really control, annotate, correlate, tag and source online material.

Zotero: A Serious Online Research Tool — Online Collaboration

Last week, as I was gearing up to join WWD, I found an awesomely deep, free, open source and innovative tool in the form of a super-stable FireFox 2.0 extension: Zotero. Zotero is a brainchild of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, well funded thanks to several grants, including $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. SendTheTrend Allows You To Create A Curated Online Store of Accessories.

Send the Trend, a recently launched e-commerce site that brings personalization to the world of fashion accessories, is launching a new way for shoppers to curate their favorite items and make money at the same time, MyStyle.

SendTheTrend Allows You To Create A Curated Online Store of Accessories

For background, Send the Trend offers its customers personalized, affordable accessories such as fashion jewelry, sunglasses, scarves and more. The site takes you through a very short survey of what kind of accessories you may want, and it then provides stylist-curated customized recommendations for five different accessories for you. You can then buy any of the items for $30, with free shipping included for U.S. customers. Explore The Scoop.it Community. Microsoft FUSE Labs releases CompanyCrowd – a social content aggregator for businesses. Microsoft FUSE Labs just released a brand new project – called the “CompanyCrowd”.

Microsoft FUSE Labs releases CompanyCrowd – a social content aggregator for businesses

This new research project is aimed at businesses or individuals which helps them easily aggregate social and media content from around the internet about a particular company or topic they’re interested in. Below is a description from the official project page: CompanyCrowd automatically collects stories, media, and social content to create a living newspaper about the companies that are most important to you and your business. It’s fast, easy, and crowd-curated.CompanyCrowd makes this easy by first finding all the social data into one search index and then leverages the wisdom of the crowd to curate the right topics, experts, and personalities for the company or product in question. Contribute. Add a Personal Touch To Any Webpage With BO.LT.

Save and Share Interesting Content. Ingenic - Save and share useful information. Bookmarklet for Curation with Audience. Flockler Bookmarklet is now available for your favorite web browser.

Bookmarklet for Curation with Audience

Bookmarklet automatically finds title, description and picture for the link you want to share in Flockler. How to use Flockler Bookmarklet? 1) Login to Flockler and click "Bookmarklet" on the top of the page 2) To install bookmarklet, simply drag and drop button to your bookmark toolbar 3) When you find something interesting on the web, click the bookmarklet and curate content to your topic Also adding YouTube videos to post will now be easier. Just copy and paste the link to YouTube video and let Flockler do the rest. Squrl: The best place to watch and discover video. How to set up your Shareist.com Website. Got content? Curate it with these top 20 websites — TechChi. A new Austin-based startup, Give As You Get, wants to make it easy for people to support their favorite nonprofit organization while shopping for items online.

Got content? Curate it with these top 20 websites — TechChi

“We’ve gotten a great response from the community,” said David Sandal, who launched the site late last year. More than 50 organizations have signed up and Give As You Get has raised more than $2,200. Sandal keeps a running total of all funds raised updated on the site. So far, Emancipet has raised the most money with $349.37. The nonprofit organization provides free and low-cost spay and neuter services throughout Central Texas from mobile and regular clinics. How to BO.LT! Howard RheingoldScoop. Our Lord of Curation series presents to you some of the great curators on Scoop.it. Stroome Brings Easy Video Collaboration and Social Sharing to the Cloud at DEMO Fall 2011. Free Service Will Let Video Content Curators Dip Into World's Largest Rights-Cleared Clip Pool for Fast Video Creation SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2011) - Stroome, the free, cloud-based video platform that lets users quickly edit, remix, discover and share video, will be demonstrating onstage at the prestigious DEMO Fall 2011 conference being held this week at the Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley.

Stroome Brings Easy Video Collaboration and Social Sharing to the Cloud at DEMO Fall 2011

Journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, bloggers -- basically anyone who wants to create original content -- can use the Stroome service. Stroome users can work alone or find like-minded collaborators to create and share video. The Stroome cloud-based platform gives editors the option of keeping their video private or sharing it with everyone across the web and on social media sites. There is nothing to download -- it all happens in the browser. Put a little LO.VE into Your Pages. Social curation with Pinterest. It’s tool time, so today’s post is about Pinterest, a social curation tool. Pinterest is a curation platform with a specific focus: to help users collect visually rich web pages or uploaded images (“pins”) on pages called “pinboards,” connecting objects to associations meaningful to the user.

In their About page, the folks at Pinterest describe how people ” use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.” Tweetdoc: Document your twitter event. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. Susan Kistler on Content Curation Part II: Comparing Curation Tools Using the Same Content Items. My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week, I’m running a short series on content curation: Thursday: Content Curation for EvaluatorsFriday: Comparing Content Curation ToolsSaturday: Participating in our Content Curation Project I’m in search of tools that may be leveraged by evaluators in their own practice (see yesterday’s post) as well as used by the association to curate and organize.

I wanted to find curation tools that allowed for identifying, organizing, and sharing resources through a webpage. Towards that end, I tried four free tools recommended or used by colleagues. Photovine Lets You Publicly Share Photos Based on Specific Topics. Searcheeze - Search collaboration made easy! Ungoogling the Web. Content Curation with Google+ Snipi Bookmarklet. Wikipedia to Add Research Mega-Tool for Hot News Article Editors. Whit.li social curation technology, interesting people discovery tech. We’re Curating Cool Curators (and Want More!) €œCool Curators” is the Flipboard name for people who collect and share (usually via Twitter or a blog) interesting stuff from around the Web. Using Diigo for Collaborative Curation.

Image via CrunchBase Recently I’ve had some inquiries about the best tool to use for a group to collaborate and share articles, videos, images, documents, etc. Introducing Bing Editors’ Picks: A Guide to Great Sites - Search Blog - Site Blogs - Bing Community. Storify.