By becoming a buzzword of 2011, curation has generated the creation of numerous tools to help users curate their interests.
As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, information
Za.pe turns your Twitter account into a complete link curation platform.
Connect your Twitter account, and Za.pe will archive all the links you and your friends tweeted, display a daily summary of them, and allow you to publish a link curation of your favorite topics in one click.
You’re a busy person, and there is so much great [long] content on the web. You need the information now, but don’t have time to read it. Get a 200-word overview of a [webpage, article, blog] submitted by a fellow Gis.to.er without reading the entire item, then read the whole thing at your leisure.
Interesting tools.
I like the timeline and the analysis of which tweets are the most important from the feeds you provide (based on RTs?)
A no nonsense way to organise and gather content for web projects
GatherContent helps you work with clients to get content you really need for their projects.
Recently, I met with the two leaders of the Scoop.it team: CEO Guillaume Decugis and President Marc Rougier. The Silicon Valley veterans said that the company’s current focus includes:
- The mobile experience – Scoop.it, on-the-go!
- The interest graph — highly relevant, highly personalized content and connections.
- The premium platform – a paid option for businesses that includes customization, detailed analytics, url re-direct, and API access. The premium platform will also be ad-free, whereas the free one will feature ads.
preview: http://social.georgesmitherman.ca/georgesmitherman
Wondering how much it costs.
Definitely a huge opportunity for companies and brands to get a platform that suits their needs. Something cost effective, that can aggregate data for them automatically, but also benefits their SEO strategy.
This seems like a wonderful storytelling tool, i will test for sure.
Storytree allows loved ones young and old to capture and share the stories that matter.
I am not really sure what it does but i stumbled on it...
http://topics.flockler.com/reader?page=group&g=409
Just found out this morning about this new site http://curators.com via a google alert search.
The site aggregates tweets from influencers on the web.
Explore social media buzz about weather in The Weather Channel Social. See what people are saying about the weather across the US. Or view any location to join the conversation.
Sulia is a realtime media company focused on filtering Twitter into compelling, high-quality content Channels from just the best experts.
Sulia creates Channels by continuously analyzing tens of millions of Twitter Lists to determine the best-regarded sources at any moment in time. The company then uses a combination of machine learning and human supervision to filter out all off-topic, spammy, and profane content from these sources. The result is high-quality realtime Channels that are always on-topic, readable, and relevant.
Read also this article (Sulia Helps Twitter Sort The Tweet From The Chaff)[http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110324/sulia-helps-twitter-sort-the-tweet-from-the-chaff/]
Sulia’s pitch is that while Twitter is a free-for-all, where anyone can say anything about anything, most people still want to pay attention to a handful of experts. The service says it can find those experts on thousands of topics, using a combination of algorithms and humans, and it assembles them into curated lists.
very cool service, check out Loic Lemeur's feed http://memolane.com/loic
YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that discovers new, relevant content for you based on your interests and makes it easy to bookmark and share that content with friends.
Microsite
What is it? A dedicated microsite or section of a website populated primarily with curated content. For examples, see my blog post entitled “6 Content Curation Examples Illustrated”.
Pro’s: Microsites really create a full-fledged experience with curated content as the center piece and can easily because the hub for a specific topic or issue. Also, microsites also do well with respect to SEO because they have dozens, or even hundreds or thousands of subpages. If done well, microsites can also seamlessly juxtaposition original created content with curated content.
Con’s: Because the curated content is not tucked away in a widget and is instead front and center, you will need to pay a lot more attention to what you curate. Also, microsites can either be positioned as a section of existing corporate website, or positioned as a more independent vendor-neutral industry resource. If you choose the latter, then you have to think about branding and marketing that new resource.
Who should use it? Organizations that are looking to become an authoritative destination for a topic or issue to position themselves as a key resource or thought leader, or to drive traffic and visibility.
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Personalized Page
What is it? A personalized page is a lightweight, single page microsite filled with curated content. Delicious is a great example of a curated personalized page. Here’s an example of one user’s page. Similarly Microsoft’s new tool Montage, Netvibes Universe or Scoop.it let you create more visually appealing and branded pages, but lack curation controls.
Pro’s: Easy to get up and running and are indexed by search engines. Usually free.
Con’s: Only one page is indexed by search engines. Furthermore, they are often created as sub-domains or subdirectories on another service rather than on your own domain, which is often insufficient for brands.
Who should use it? Individuals or cost conscious non-profits who want to create an information resource.
BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a bag to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.
Compare Amplify vs BagTheWeb vs BlogBridge vs CIThread vs Chripstory vs ConnectN vs Curated.by vs CurationStation vs Eqentia vs Flockler vs HabitStream vs KeepStream vs Knowledge Plaza vs Kweeper vs LinkedIn Today vs Storify vs Scoop.it ...
Faveous gathers your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader, Youtube anFacebook in one single place.
Mass Relevance provides social curation, social streaming, Twitter curation and more.
Released in theatres in July, the YouTube-National Geographic documentary Life in a Day is curated crowdsourcing on a grand scale: about 1,000 clips were chosen from 80,000 submissions from 192 countries to chronicle one day on Earth. YouTube is also packaging videos for the media: YouTube Trends “aggregate[es] the wisdom of top curators across the web” with posts like 4 at 4—the four hottest videos released at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. and available by email—and CitizenTube, which focuses on news. Companies can solicit YouTube videos as part of their own curated crowdsourcing, from contests like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Rulemaking Matters! to the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Video Frenzy.
Also cited: * www.geniusrocket.com artistic community specializes in video design * www.logolance.com: logo designer comunity * www.gojee.com aggregates recipes * www.venga.com specials and deals from your favorite venues
If you have followed the TWRCtank for awhile, you know that I had a long list of resources in the sidebars on the right-hand side of this blog. Several people mentioned they did not like all the scrolling and they wished there was a way to indicate that I added new resources to the list. Over the past few months, I’ve played around with many technology tools trying to figure out the best way to share resources for teaching reading/language arts with you. Many of these these tools are called social bookmarking tools. By social, I mean that you are able to easily see other people’s public bookmarks and they can see yours. (Most of the sites I tried allow private and public bookmarking, but some force all your bookmarks to be public.) Social bookmarking tools also usually allow you to follow and be followed by people with similar interests.
Content Aggregation (which is just a fancy term for the automated gathering of links and content from the web) can be viewed on sites like Google News and several other news kind of websites. Generally, this kind of aggregation may be seen being a good thing for content creators and content publishers and uptill recently, it was upto the technology to do this – meaning – automated scripts or bots – that could help fill up content from different sources. The part of content crea...
POwerful curation solution for brands
FeedMagnet: Harnessing social content for websites and live events through aggregation and curation.
Filling the gap through curation is an important, booming service to your blog readers. Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr - CurationSoft covers all the buzz in your market. Drag and drop the hottest stuff in your niche! Curated content is easier and makes your blog a hot destination of quality, filtered content. CurationSoft-assisted posts rank and rank well in all search engines.
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