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. 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 uses existing elements from the web and gives curators the power to drag and drop elements into storylines. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion
Feedly's IFTTT Channel and Web App Goes Live Days Before Google Reader is Shutdown Feedly’s quest to replace and improve on Google Reader before its demise July 1st reached another milestone: a fully functional channel on IFTTT. The integration with IFTTT now allows users to create recipes that automatically combine actions on Feedly with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Evernote and pretty much any other major web app. For those of you unfamiliar with IFTTT, it allows you to connect different websites together to automate actions like sharing posts, tweets and more based on triggers. So you can automatically share a new blog post (trigger) as a Tweet on Twitter with a link to the article (action). The power of IFTTT is that you can you combine any two services to do just about anything you like, which includes multiple sharing actions to different networks based on a single trigger (like a new blog post). Here are a few popular new Feedly recipes: Having IFTTT to carry out several actions on Google Reader was really nice. Feedly Web Interface Feedly Cloud Apps
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