The Curation Buzz... And PearlTrees. Posted by Tom Foremski - April 12, 2010 My buddy Dave Galbraith is the first person I remember to first start talking about curation and the Internet, several years ago. He even named his company Curations, and created a tool/site for curation: Wists. And his site SmashingTelly - is great example of curation, a hand-picked collection of great videos. Today, much is written about curation and the Internet but it all seems mostly talk because we don't really have the tools we need.
Robert Scoble writes about The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators "... who does curation? Reading Robert Scoble's post on curation, it almost seemed as if he were describing PearlTrees, a company I've recently been working with in an advisory role, when he talks about "info atoms and molecules. " ...what are info atoms? PearlTrees is very similar, it's a curation tool that uses "pearls" as a visual metaphor for a web site, a Twitter post, an image, or a video.
More to come... Tweet this story Follow @tomforemski. LeWeb10 and the Curation topic. Looks like curation has been one of the keyword of LeWeb10. Exactly one year after Pearltrees beta release, the activity we used to call human organization of the Web has not only find its word but also its way. Sure, Pearltrees is steadily growing, reaching 100.000 uniques and more. But it goes far beyond that: masses of new startups are quickly populating the curation field. Bloggers, thinkers and journalist begin to frame, to question, to define the curation topic.
Outside the circles of early adopters, people “get it” even quicker. A very deep human need support the development of curation: the need to give a meaning to its own world, to keep at hand, organize and share the stuff one likes. What’s more on LeWeb? Hell, no. . … so here is their great pearltree!
Gen Z: the curation generation. These are my paraphrased notes and observations from the presentation by Katherine Savitt at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on 17 November 2010. Z future is here Generation Z are those children and teenagers born between 1992-2010. In the USA they number 65 million. In first world countries they number 275 million, while worldwide there are 1.6 billion Gen-Z’s.
They are the first generation of digital natives, people who have grown up with the internet and connected devices. Gen Z represent the age of acquired attention deficit disorder. Gen Z have an expectation that life follows video games. Gen Z have also reclassified cheating due to their online and gaming habits. Gen Z are the new curators: Entertainment should be on demand rather than dictated by suppliers. Gen Z demonstrate 3 key behaviours: Share, Express, Consume There is no hiding for marketers from Gen Z.
Z future is here Generations X & Y are actually influenced by Gen Z now.