SocialSafe provides an incredibly simple way to back up and archive your Facebook timeline, Facebook Pages, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+ and Viadeo profiles. Everything is stored locally on the user's PC or Mac for super quick access via SocialSafe's powerful search and browse functions.

Just copy and paste this embed code where you want your Timeline to appear. Replace the in the embed code with a link to your data source You can also set the and of the embed. This is a beta feature. Try it out and let us know if you notice anything funky. Report a Bug or Issue Embed generator coming soon! Sign up for updates to be notified when it's released.

Urlist is a collaboration tool to collect, organize and share lists of links. Using one short link for each list, Urlist gives all you need to manage your Web resources. Sharing links has never been so easy. Urlist is in private beta

Toggle between Grid or Folders view Sort clips by Most Popular or Most Recent Log in to see what your friends are clipping!

Offer students the best shopping experience on the planet. By uniting in-store, online, and mobile shopping students can buy new, used, rental, and eBook titles in-store online, or from their mobile phones. Rafter marketing programs help build loyalty, drive traffic, and grow market share—both online and in your store. Rafter Cloud Commerce™ is a cloud-based transaction system that integrates online and mobile shopping to enable any type of transaction, anywhere, on any platform. Students can even buy from their mobile phones in your store.

Watch video from the people you care about.

Good luck to them with that Magify patent hanging over their head. And nice Pinterest design :)

Pretty amazing iPad app. Forget everything else, make it easy to publish content online. No doubt 22 of the top 25 news companies are using Storify, including the White House and presidential candidates this year.

Looks like much-maligned U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is getting into the holiday spirit and trying to make entrepreneurs swoon. After six years, the agency has suddenly decided to give Steve Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of Magnify.net, the gift he’s been waiting for—U.S. Patent No. 8,117,545, covering a hosted video discovery and publishing platform—complete with a Valentine’s issuance date.

"A hosted system provides any Internet user with the ability to quickly set up and customize a video channel, preferably as a web page or site that can be reached from any Internet-accessible device having a web browser. The solution includes tools for use by channel site creators to customize the look, feel, and page design. A particular web page or site may be associated with a given subject. As used herein, a page or site that has such an association is sometimes referred to as “subject-specific...”

That's a big blow to any startup focusing on video curation. Though who knows if Magnigy will do anything to leverage this against them. As much as it seems a bad thing for competition purposes and eco-system, historically it has been rare that companies leveraged patents to kill their competitors. Though now, we know who's the 800lb gorilla....

And Magnify's valuation just increased tremendously. Large players like Google like to buy startups for:

• the unique technology
• the talent/team
• the patent it owns for a product/service Google has its feet in

2. Snip from your Mobile device by Email

To:&Your_Unique_Email@snip.it

Subject:&Facebook picks fight with Google over who is more evil

Body:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/23/technology/
google_plus_facebook/index.htm

@Tech News

Will be interesting to see how this skirmish turns out.

3. Use the Magic URL

snip.it/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/technology/personaltech/is-this-living-room-big-enough-for-my-tv.html

The best content discovery tool forsocial media marketers and managers.

• Find relevant content to share with customers, fans, and followers.
• Focus on other responsibilities while we capture good content throughout the day.
• Capture and review Tweets about your brand, industry, and chosen keywords.
• Improve your incoming signal-to-noise ratio.
• Smart content feeds throttle popular items so they don't overwhelm your stream.
• Easily discover fresh content that was previously hard to find.
• Remove irrelevant items and prevent them from polluting your stream again.

Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love -&Organize any video, article, or website into a Playlist. See what your friends are learning.

Curated lesson by organizing media available online.

Created by&Rand from Moz&and&Dharmesh from HubSpot. Should be interesting to watch.

Publishzer is a tool to create magazines out of content that inspires you.&&Billions of content pieces are created everyday on the internet and no way can I browse through all of them. So we asked to ourselves, wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool to organize and share most of this content. A place to save all the amazing articles, photos and videos that inspires you online. Beside now you do not have to be sticked on feeds to keep up with the news.

Read their story here.

Most people who use Pinterest are there for the cool things they can find and re-pin. Many of those find and pint new items themselves, adding to the experience overall. Lots of people have expressed dismay that someone might want to use Pinterest for anything commercial, while other see no problem with it so long as they don’t wind up feeling “sold to” every time they visit the site. Some items pinned on Pinterest are for sale. Not necessarily directly by the pinner, but somewhere. And, Pinterest is taking advantage of this to make money. If an item is available through an affiliate marketing arrangement, Pinterest uses a program called SkimLinks to add their unique identifier to the link, thus generating a commission for themselves if you buy the item.

They've got to make money somehow, and they must be disclosing this somehow... well i hope for them.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking to develop a Web app that can continuously monitor social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, as well as various news feeds. The organization’s goal is to improve its real-time intelligence when it comes to current and emerging security threats.

They even provided specifications for the web app!

[...] the 12-page Request for Information document (PDF, half the pages are oddly blank) reveals in detail what the organization is interested in.

Are you ready to get your social media activity monitored by the FBI?

The easiest way to discover the best new recipes from top food sites and share them with family and friends.

Life moments curated by you. A beautiful way to discover the world around you. Discover, like, comment and pin moments created by others and curate your own.

My takes...

"push button content generation."

Here's what he means: Clicking Pinterest's "Pin It" button, which can be added to your browser's bookmarks toolbar, will automatically grab the picture you want from the website you are on. What is different is that it immediately adds it to any of your Pinterest boards, allowing you to categorize your content then and there. The boards each have a separate page and can be easily accessed, shared and viewed on a sort of mother board on your Pinterest profile.

"Importantly, it was easy for new users to consume these sets of content visually as structured sets, and to share these sets with others," Gil wrote. "This next wave of social curation will fundamentally change how users find and interact with content over time."

There won't be a shortage of "curate anything" sites in 2012...&

iversity allows faculty...

• to easily set up a course website, to upload teaching materials and engage their students;
• to share links, references and general observations in research groups without the hassle of setting up a content management system or starting and promoting a blog;
• to announce conferences, guest lectures or calls for papers.

iversity allows students...

• to interact with course materials right where they already spend most of their time: online;
• to work together with classmates on assignments (e.g. social reading, collaborative writing);
• to build an archive of learning materials and problem-related discussions in the cloud.

You can import from 18 popular sources, easily post your own updates, pick from a range of styles and create compelling stories from your content.

Easily post anything you find interesting, import your web 2.0 stuff and share your life online

This platform requires install like Wordpress.

This method allows you to retrieve a user's list. It supports retrieving items changed since a specific time to allow for syncing.

Example:

https://readitlaterlist.com/v2/get?username=namepassword=123apikey=yourapikeysince=1245638446

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SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.

Key points:

• In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.
• helps you curate real-time data and analysis on any topic or interest relevant to you or your organization.
• setup streams that search for mentions of your brand or product online and manage social media campaigns (e.g. Twitter, SMS, email) from one dashboard.
• adds context to content using semantic analysis. Auto-categorize and classify email, twitter, text messages or news articles based on keywords.

Project Argo is collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress.

The code and tutorials that you find on this site were designed to enable a pilot group of 12 NPR member stations to curate and report on news about specific topics of local interest.

The 12 sites the Argo suite was built for encompassed a range of topics, from climate change to local music. Overall, the sites share several key characteristics: frequent publishing, often with several posts a day; robust use of images; and a mix of curatorial and original material. Any topic-focused site that matches these criteria might benefit from our methods, themes or plugins.

Even with the right tools, it's not obvious how to reach a robust audience for a topic. In this section, we share what we've learned during Project Argo, and what we recommend to anyone taking on a topical blogging project.

Scoopinion is an effortless community-based news recommendation and spreading service. It has two parts: the&Scoopinion website&and theScoopinion Browser App, which works on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Our algorithm interprets the little gestures of the way the article is read and points are given accordingly. Then the weight of the points are reduced in function of time to keep the content fresh. You read, you rate.

Very neat. I love the aspect of the reading analysis they do. Though it is kind of creepy, that means they know what you read and where you go...

You can now

• collaboratively build stacks
• comment on whole stacks
• respond to a stack with a stack similar to a YouTube response
• create private stacks.

The war's on.

As Google Plus grows in users and usage, Google should be only months away from being able to present us with content we might have missed and that is interesting and relevant to us.

Personalization at its best, Google knows where you have been, what you read, so it should be a piece of cake to do something pretty neat.

Keep track of the pages you've been checking out, and get recommendations for unique and awesome new sites!&Sitesimon brings you the best articles, videos and other content,&automatically&tailored to your interests.

Basically, an RSSbox is an RSS reader widget - a rectangular area on your website or blog displaying text and images from RSS feeds. When creating a new RSSbox you decide on which type of layout and which RSS feeds to use. Convert RSS to HTML, convert RSS to Javascript, convert RSS to PHP and include RSS on Facebook.

Write an article, paper or book with the stuff you've gathered at your fingertips

It's no mistake that Pinspire.com is built on the same concept, has the same look, the same color scheme and even the same feel to its cursive logo as the hugely popular social bookmarking site Pinterest. Pinspire is, after all, the latest venture of Germany's Samwer brothers, who have been developing copycats of popular sites and selling them off since 1999, when they sold Alando to eBay for $50 million. More recently, they started and sold GroupOn clone CityDeal to GroupOn and Zynga clone Plinga to Zynga....

This so ridiculous. On the other, it shows you that nothing can't be duplicate which is scary.

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Yep, another one... product curation. Good luck to that team!

This model has been explored already, curisma is one that focuses on tech gadget for example.

Stylehive was there before all these guys, anuway, i cannot see this Buyosphere get enough traction to work.

The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. &This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit -&Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and&Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed. In this blog post I will discuss the evolution of social media from long-form to push-button, the emergence of social curation on sites such as Twitter and Tumblr, and the move to structured sets of curated content on Pinterest and its brethren.

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

Useful tool to only show parts of a video.

In 5 Words

An Academy for Self-Learners!

In 25 Words

A place where everyone can bookmark, create, share and socialize information in any format, from websites to online courses and use it efficiently to learn.

In 125 Words

SchooX offers a pleasant way to discover and transform information to knowledge. It offers a social environment where anyone can discover, collect and review knowledge resources of any kind. Users who know what's what can even create online courses and promote them. By using resources of different kinds (web pages, videos, blogs, wikis, online books, documents, online courses) users can knuckle down to any subject they want and even&certify&their knowledge. On schooX different kinds of resources are supported with special features according to their format. Online courses, for example, are supported by an internal Learning Management Module capable of maintaining the users learning process. SchooX is great and is for everyone! On schooX everyone can be a&Discoverer,Collector,&Reviewer,&Learner&or&Instructor.

Interesting tool.

LStack is smart bookmarking app. It allows you to quickly save bookmarks, annotate them with tags and custom parameters, and manage your bookmarks database.

It's really a bookmarking platform.

Very interesting from Quora to launch something like this. People, users share. Ok we know. But is this what Quora should be about? Is it not the job of StumbleUpon, Delicious and other bookmarking services to do that?

Feels to me that Quora is entering a game that does not necessarily fit their image/branding.

It is also true that services now have to provide users with the full experience, branching out to things they were not set to provide... users are king, if they request, we provide even if we take the risk to lose your identity.

Aggregage creates online communities by bringing together content from the best sources around particular topics. We identify a topic (Social Media, eLearning, Careers, Leadership, etc), find high-quality blogs around that topic, and then display their posts on a new site dedicated to that given topic. The original site on eLearning has become the highest traffic site on that topic.

To our Au-THOORA-ties We regret to announce that effective December 15th, 2011, Thoora will be shutting down. It is time for us to say goodbye. We would like to thank each and every one of you for participating in this crazy journey with us. Your engagement with Thoora and your feedback have been remarkable, and we have loved learning from you. We definitely wouldn’t have gotten as far as we did without you. We will leave the service running until noon EST December 15th, 2011. At that time we will suspend it indefinitely. This includes the website, the API and WordPress widget, and the Android tablet app. You will automatically be unsubscribed from our mailing list, and all of your account information will be permanently deleted.

Google finally released Currents, it's (delayed) reader app that it decided to make after it failed to acquire Flipboard.

Currents is all about curated the best content on the web and bringing it to you in a stylish, easy to read format.

The result with Currents is a cleaner product that always guarantees you're keeping up with the latest news you're interested in.

It's pretty obvious they borrowed a lot from Flipboard, but the app is still gorgeous.

The other major component to Currents is the Trending section. Here you can choose topics you want to read about and Currents pulls in the top five stories in each category.

Currents also does a great job at adapting to the size of your screen.

Conclusion: Currents is all about curated content and finding you the best stuff on the web to read. Flipboard is mostly about pulling in links and articles your friends are sharing on various social networks or from your RSS.

ITA Software is proud to introduce Needlebase™, a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web. Using Needlebase through a web browser, without programmers or DBAs, your data team can easily:

• acquire data from multiple sources: A simple tagging process quickly imports structured data from complex websites, XML feeds, and spreadsheets into a unified database of your design.
• merge, deduplicate and cleanse: Needlebase uses intelligent semantics to help you find and merge variant forms of the same record. Your merges, edits and deletions persist even after the original data is refreshed from its source.
• build and publish custom data views: Use Needlebase's visual UI and powerful query language to configure exactly your desired view of the data, whether as a list, table, grid, or map. Then, with one click, publish the data for others to see, or export a feed of the clean data to your own local database.

Faveeo.com is a news-oriented web service that follows users interests, tastes and opinions about specific topics, and connects them automatically to other related users that then act as a human "curation" network.

By leveraging the collective intelligence hidden in social networks, Faveeo is able to enhance the process of information and network management for news addicts, and businesses alike by suggesting quality and interesting content.

A major redesign and rebranding of StumbleUpon refreshes the site with a new look, more tailored content, and customized ways to explore what's on the Web.

The refreshed appearance, alongside a few new choice features, show how the site is learning toward intelligent curation of content and moving farther away from the "roulette-wheel" method of random exploration.

When asked about the influence of social media, Marc Leibowitz, vice president of business development and marketing at StumbleUpon, said, "We weren't trying to follow anyone other than our users. We heard consistent feedback from users that they wanted a way to specifically identify the things that they wanted to discover content and information in."

Interesting format.