4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent.
At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion. Pearltrees: Create The World Of Your Interests - pearltrees. PearlTrees better than bookmarking for organizing stuff online. Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone’s predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today’s Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did.
Here’s a page with text. Some of the words are hyperlinked, so when you click on them, you open another page. If you want to save something, there’s a wide variety of tools that help you do so, but most people use the bookmarking feature built into their browsers, or social bookmarking sites. But now there’s a conspicuously innovative new option. The service is functionally similar in some ways to social bookmarking sites, but its core function is “curation,” which Wikipedia defines as the “selection, preservation, maintenance, and collection and archiving of digital assets.” LinkaGoGo - free Online Favorites manager and Social Bookmarking Application. Faves. Delicious. Blurpalicious - Social Bookmarking. Pearltrees: The Future of Social Bookmarking :sinlee.com.
Gravee - The Social Search and Recommendation Engine. Blippy / What are your friends buying?