Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space. 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. Utopic had this to say about its new visual bookmarking feature: With one click you can now save, tag, share and later quickly recover anything on the internet that you find interesting. Discovery When you sign-up for Utopic, you can connect your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google reader accounts. Once you’ve connected your accounts, Utopic takes about a half hour to go through your links. The design is visually stunning, and doesn’t make you feel like there are too many options, something other bookmark sharing sites suffer from. Sharing is caring Sharing content can be done in two ways.
Using Diigo for Collaborative Curation | Fusion Finds 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. My initial thought was a wiki, but now that I’ve fully investigated the features of Diigo (dee’go), that is the tool I would recommend. Diigo, an online curation tool, is another one of my top 10 tools that I use every day. I use Diigo to curate content, share it, and to find content. The Science Department, while working on their Common Assessment Plan, is using Diigo as a collaborative space by creating a private group and sharing curated content with that group. 3 Ways to Curate Content Bookmark: When Mr. Highlight: Mr. Sticky Note: Mr. You can also associate a Sticky Note with a Highlight. Utilizing Your Saved Resources Accessing, Filtering, and Editing Your Resources: Mr. Accessing Shared Group Resources: Ms. Viewing Sticky Notes and Highlights from other Group Members: Mr. Sharing a Resource and Annotations with Anyone: Mr.
7 Content Curation Tools to Keep up With (and Share) Industry News Guest post by Courtney Seiter Show of hands: Who has enough time every day to read up on your industry’s news? Oh, and everything new you need to know to market your business? Yeah, me neither. To cut through the glut of information to make sure the good stuff rises to the top, I employ a lot of help in the form of content curation tools. Here are 7 of my favorite content curation tools and a little information about how they can make you more efficient. Tool: Google ReaderUse with: Blogs, news sites, Google Alerts, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: This isn’t exactly a groundbreaking tool, but I would be lost without Reader. Tool: Trunk.lyUse with: Twitter, FacebookWhy it’s great: Sometimes you want the social media news without all the social media noise. Tool: SummifyUse with: Blogs, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: Summify is my secret weapon.
We’re Curating Cool Curators (and Want More!) “Cool Curators†is the Flipboard name for people who collect and share (usually via Twitter or a blog) interesting stuff from around the Web. These folks have their own category in our Content Guide, and still others are scattered about in places like Art & Photos and Tech & Science. A few more cool curators are building curated sections just for Flipboard. Take @DodoFlip, for example, whose collection of “endangered objects (and other stuff)†is actually tied to a book released by HarperCollins. We\’re highlighting these curators throughout the Content Guide this week, on the Featured tab and in categories like Living, Local and (of course) Cool Curators. If you have a topic you\’re passionate about and would like to curate a section around, we\’d love to work with you, too.
Introducing Bing Editors’ Picks: A Guide to Great Sites - Search Blog - Site Blogs - Bing Community Intel AppUp and the problem of content curation Home » News Intel held its annual AppUp Elements conference in Seattle last week. 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. Add in the problem of gaining customer interest and you have another big task on your hand. The idea here is to allow consumers to build their own sub app-stores. Dhruv Bhutani is a technology enthusiast who is always in sync with the latest and greatest in tech.
The world's first Content Logistics Platform | Vertical Acuity Wikipedia to Add Research Mega-Tool for Hot News Article Editors Wikipedia pages about big news events are edited so fast and furious it's hard to keep track of why decisions were made, to make sure the editing is really optimized and to ensure that the most trustworthy sources get trusted and cited. A new experiment with crisis mapping organization Ushahidi is looking to change that. Ushahidi announced this morning that it has launched a new project called WikiSweeper, a new version of its open source hybrid of Tweetdeck and Google Reader called Sweeper that's built for Wikipedia editors. Sweeper aggregates all kinds of multimedia streams into an analytics-rich, real-time curation interface. "Sweeper can also be configured to be a passive filter for data," Ushahidi explains, "meaning you can set it to aggregate content, then automatically perform certain tasks around that. ex. Below, the stream of news - click for full size.
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. Journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, bloggers -- basically anyone who wants to create original content -- can use the Stroome service. Stroome will be demonstrating the service in front of an audience of potential investors, leading industry entrepreneurs and press luminaries at the DEMO conference Wednesday morning. "Stroome goes beyond video sharing websites such as YouTube and Vimeo by bringing online video editing to the browser," said Matt Marshall, executive producer, DEMO. What Can Video Content Creators do?
Howard RheingoldScoop Our Lord of Curation series presents to you some of the great curators on Scoop.it. They are here to share their insights and advice with you. Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing). -What is curation to you? Curation, like making a website, is an act of self-interest that enriches the commons and benefits everybody. -What is your best curating secret? I have a number of persistent news searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo that I scan as RSS feeds, along with other feeds. -How has curation enriched your social media experience? It helps turn a personal interest into a community of interest. -Your topic “infotention” attracts many readers. We are all confronted with conflicting needs in regard to information. The Lord of Curation Series is to be continued next week.