Web Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite and as of March 2013, the Seesmic website is no longer supported. But HootSuite welcomes all Seesmic users into our nest! Here’s how you can start using HootSuite today. Making the transition to HootSuite: Getting started is easy. Just click the button below or learn more about HootSuite here. Keep Your Social Media Connections Organized with Cliqset 2.0 Social networking service Cliqset has just released what it is dubbing Cliqset 2.0, giving the service a pretty solid overhaul in the process. Cliqset is a website that lets you manage multiple identity streams in one interface, making sharing and discovering information more manageable. The new release brings in a completely refreshed dashboard, stronger Twitter integration, support for Foursquare and Status.net, and an easier way to find and follow users.Cliqset can integrate with more than 70 different social services, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, LinkedIn and dozens of others. You can pull in and push out content from your social networks. Full Twitter Integration Cliqset has always had strong support for Twitter, but it now supports the Twitter API at nearly every level.
Best Free Content Curation Tools 2012 Content Curation has been on the upside lately, and while there are some who don’t think that it is an ethical form of “content creation”, there are those that think completely the opposite. Whichever side you choose to be, you should know that if you do decide to “curate content”, to always give credit to its original source and never copy an entire article even if you are linking back to its original author. That does not have anything to do with curation and may even be considered as stealing content. While I am at it, creating a list of useless links is also not regarded as curating content. Which side are you on? Do you favor “content curation” as an interesting approach of content creation/marketing, or are you totally against it?
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What is Content Curation? What is Content Curation? Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter. Though it is still considered a "buzz word" by many in the content world, content curation is now becoming a marketing staple for many companies with a successful online presence. Unlike content marketing, content curation does not include generating content, but instead, amassing content from a variety of sources, and delivering it in an organized fashion. For instance, a content curator is not necessarily responsible for creating new content, but instead, for finding relevant content pertaining to a specific category and funneling this information to readers in a mash-up style. Who Are the Content Curators?
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. PayPal Goes On The Defensive After MasterCard Opens Platform To Yesterday MasterCard announced a definitive plan to open up its credit cards payments platform to developers to build innovative online and mobile apps. Of course, this has been the territory that PayPal has basked in, thanks to a much hyped launch of its API, PayPal X. PayPal senior director of PayPal X, Damon Hougland was quick to defend its place in the arena, saying that since its API was released last Fall, “thousands of developers have signed up, hundreds of apps have been built, and millions of dollars have transacted over our platform.” While this is at the forefront of innovation for MasterCard, PayPal says that the developers who are building off of its platform are ahead of the curve. The company cites Bump, a technology to swap information between smartphones by tapping them together, which is used in PayPal’s iPhone app, allowing people to “bump” iPhones to transfer money (the app was downloaded more than one million times in the first three weeks it was out).
Amazon S3 Performance Tips & Tricks + Seattle S3 Hiring Event Today's guest post is brought to you by Doug Grismore, Director of Storage Operations for AWS. Doug has some useful performance tips and tricks that will help you to get the best possible performance from Amazon S3. There's also information about a special S3 hiring event that will take place later this week in Seattle. Update (September 2013) - The information below, while still largely accurate, has been supplanted by a newer document, S3 Request Rate and Performance Considerations. -- Jeff; We've worked with a large number of customers over the last few years getting some truly massive workloads into and out of Amazon S3.