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Dublin's "Storyful": Verifying and leveraging social content for news organisations

Beet.TV :: Dublin-based Storyful, a new sort of "wire service" which authenticates and curates "crowd-sourced" journalism for big media customers including The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters and YouTube, quickly identified authoritative "citizen" journalists and local news sources in the aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

Watch the video, produced by Beet.TV here  Andy Plesser, www.beet.tv

Poll among marketers and agencies: Content curation can inform, engage customers

emarketer :: These days, almost all marketers are finding, filtering and sharing content, according to content curation services provider Curata. In a March 2012 poll of more than 400 US marketers and agencies that sold to business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, Curata found that 95% had curated content in some way over the past six months by sharing a link, blog post or other content type with a potential customer.

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Storyboard: Tumblr launched its version of how to curate the curators

BetaBeat :: Many Tumblr users call themselves “curators,” so it seems only natural that Tumblr has launched its own curation effort with Storyboard. In a video posted on the new site, Tumblr’s Editor-in-Chief Chris Mohney described Storyboard as an effort to highlight content the average Tumblr user might not discover “through their natural organic reading of Tumblr.”

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MustKnow News: The top 10 news stories each hour

The Next Web :: “Unlike other news apps that bring plenty of content from a large number of RSS feeds or a user’s Facebook or Twitter streams, MustKnow focuses on bringing users only the top 10 most important stories,” continues Shany. “This helps users deal with information overload and allows them to stay up-to-date in no time.”

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Curate.me mines the web to fill your inbox with personalized news

The Next Web :: Curate.me, formerly known as XYDO Brief, is making its public debut today after a 6-month invitation-only beta period which attracted some 20,000 users. Essentially, the service delivers personalized news to your email inbox based on your interests and data mined from your favorite social networks and news sources.

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'Just the News': A curated online news service

The Next Web :: Don’t you sometimes just wish you could drown out all the background noise on the World Wide Web and get back to basics? If your answer is yes, then read on. Just the News is an experiment by Max Temkin, a Chicago-based designer, to capture the big news of the day “without any gossip, sports, or distracting bullshit.” In short, it cuts through the cacophonous crackle of the white-noise Web and brings you a selection of the top news stories of the day.

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Content curators are the new superheros of the web

FastCompany :: Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 billion emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pinterest. The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby.

[Steven Rosenbaum:] ... curators are emerging as a critical filter that helps niche content consumers find "signal" in noise.

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Anonther curation tool? Bundlr: real-time updates, collaboration features and the ability to embed pages

The Next Web | TNW :: Over the past year or so, a number of curation tools have emerged that make it easy to group diverse collections of online content around themes. With a number of tools already available, is there room for another? - The people behind new kid on the block Bundlr clearly believe so. Like its rivals, Bundlr offers a bookmarklet which allows you to quickly ‘clip’ any web page into a themed bundle which you can then share online.

Continue to read Marty Bryant, thenextweb.com

Startup scene: Pearltrees - a social curation community. Share your pearls.

Pearltrees is (in its own words) a "social curation community". People join it if they like to organize, discover and share the staff they like with a community of people. In the context of pearltrees users become Web editors.

Pearltree users can map their daily navigations, edit their maps through Pearltrees to organize them, and share their maps in order to guide their friends or other members of the Pearltrees community or any Internet user through "their" Web to collectively build their living map.

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What's next after Google? Curation (again)?

InfectiousGreed :: Google's ranking algorithm, like any trading algorithm, has lost its alpha. It no longer has lists to draw and, on its own, it no longer generates the same outperformance in part because it is reverse-engineered, well-understood and operating in an adaptive content landscape.

There are two things that can happen now, e.g. we could head back to curation, which is what Paul Kedrosky sees happening, and watch new algorithms emerge on top of that next-generation curation again. Think of Twitter as a new stab at curation, but there are plenty of other examples.

I wouldn't say that we will face the dawn of search. And for me personally Facebook and the social graph is not a substitute for searches on Google. I still "google" if I want to search. But I agree with Kedrosky, that we can currently observe a new trend.  Google build a great tool (its algorithm) to understand the needs (expressed as keyword searches) and Facebook explores the social graph especially the constructs "attitude", "opinion" etc. But Twitter outperforms along the social interest graph, which is far more interesting from my point of view, because it is a shared interest which connects people.

Continue to read paul.kedrosky.com - Curation is the New Search is the New Curation