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Visualising Facebook: Who am I? Facebook and the Age of Curation Through Unsharing. Facebook’s Open Graph is ushering in a monumental shift in how we curate what we share. Curation used to mean opting in to sharing. You found or did something you thought your audience would care about, and you went to the trouble of sharing it. This worked when we didn’t have so much content at our finger tips, but as more news and media consumption moves online, the friction of constantly opting in exhausts us and we don’t bother to distribute what others might enjoy.

That’s why I believe we are entering the age of curation through unsharing, and it will force us to change. Some believe “frictionless sharing” via Open Graphs will be the death of curation. That signal will be drowned out by noise as the content we consume but that’s not worth the attention of others is automatically published to our friends and followers. Users still expect to have to actively share something in order for it to reach their audience. This granularity allows for more curation, not less. Why Browsing Is So Important to Content Discovery. Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit, a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. I love libraries and bookstores. I love the tactile, olfactory and social experiences these physical spaces allow.

Clearly the Internet has given us ample and exciting new opportunities to engage with information resources, but the digital realm is still a ways off from satisfying many of our real-world needs. Putting aside the physical niceties of brick and mortar information repositories, one thing the Internet has yet to reproduce is the ability to easily and pleasantly browse its vast reaches. Browsing is a crucial component of information discovery; it allows an information seeker to expand organically upon an initial vague, often unarticulated need. Imagine head to the stacks at your local library to browse through the cookbooks. How We Lost Browsing to Searching. 35% of Tablet Owners Use Them in the Bathroom [STUDY] Tablet owners love the devices so much that they're taking them everywhere — even the bathroom — according to a new study.

Staples Advantage, Staples' business-to-business unit, polled 200 tablet owners from companies of various sizes and across multiple industries in June. The survey found 35% of tablet owners use the device in the loo. The respondents also admit to taking their tablets to restaurants (30%), on vacation (60%) and using them in bed (78%). Eighty percent of those polled also said they see tablets as a means to help them achieve an improved work/life balance. Some 60% say they get more work done using a tablet.

Communication is also a strong motivator to buy the devices; 40% say they bought one to stay connected with colleagues and clients and 75% use the tablets to check email. While tablets are no doubt impinging on consumers' home lives like never before, the 35% figure for tablet bathroom use may actually be lower than some would suspect. New Social Media Analytics Tool Compares Engagement Across Competitor Profiles. SimplyMeasured SimplyMeasured’s competitive analysis tool compares engagement across competitors’ social media profiles. Giving context to social media engagement numbers. Most social media analytics tools will measure how a profile’s fan base has changed and what percentage of those people are actively interacting with it.

Most also give some indication as to what “share of voice” a brand has among its competitors in the conversation that’s pinging around social networks. But to invoke the Double Rainbow guy , “What does it mean?” A new tool from startup social media analytics company SimplyMeasured attempts to add some context to the numbers by showing customers how their pages stack up to those of their competitors.

“I think a lot of agencies and brands are sending these metrics up the chain: ‘Engagement is really important and we’ve got all this engagement, we have a million fans and 10% of those engaged with us,’” CEO Adam Schoenfeld says. How Companies Use Social Media To Pick Stocks. This week Topsy Labs Inc. released a report claiming its model was able to predict a drop in Netflix's share price after it decided to split its DVD rental and streaming video services by tracking phrases like "just canceled my Netflix subscription.

" It's arguable whether investors really needed a sophisticated sentiment measuring analyses to predict Netflix's shares would drop after what has been called the worst business decision since the introduction of "new" Coke in 1985. But social media sentiment analysis is growing more sophisticated and may soon become a key component investors look at before making a decision to buy or sell stock. "In future it may very well be unwise to not take some kind of sentiment analysis into consideration," said Neil McGovern of Sybase, a company that provides its complex events processing technology to banks and securities firms, "But at moment it's not make or break variable. " How Twitter Beat The Mainstream Business Media On iPhone 4S.