1. Yahoo News Teams Up With Facebook To Curate Content From Your Friends Explore TechCrunch (Sep 22 2011) Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook. Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we're told this is one of the most in-depth implementations to date. That's because Yahoo is working with Facebook's open graph to integrate your friends' activity into your Yahoo News experience. (Read Full Article)

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2. Sobees Brings Social News Reader NewsMix To Facebook Explore TechCrunch (Sep 20 2011) Sobees, the startup that develops social newsfeed for the iPadNewsMix, is bringing digital news curation to Facebook via a new app. (Read Full Article)

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3. Feast Your Eyes On Recipe Curation Site Gojee Explore TechCrunch (Jul 8 2011) There's no shortage of food recipe sites on the web for virtually any kind of food. In fact, trying to find a recipe online can be overwhelming with all of the options available. Enter recently launched foodie favorite Gojee, which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way. On Gojee, you can search for recipes by ingredient, either via 'cravings' or by one ingredient you have in your pantry. You can also input your dislikes or allergies and Gojee will make sure to surface recipes without these ingredients. So say I had leftover snowpeas in ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine Explore TechCrunch (Jan 17 2011) Social Media Sobees has made a business of creating innovative social media clients, particularly focusing on bringing Twitter, Facebook and social search to the a variety of platforms. Today, the developer is getting into the news business with the launch of NewsMix, an iPad app which presents news and content shared by your social circle in a magazine format on the device. The app, which costs $2.99 in the App Store, allows you to create and mix a digital magazine composed of content shared in your Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds (Google Reader and feed search). The app will categorize content in ... (Read Full Article)

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5. @Cliqset 2.0 Launches With Deeper Twitter Integration And Content Curation Explore TechCrunch (Jun 30 2010) Social Media Cliqset, a realtime online social identity platform is launching a new version of its applications: Cliqset 2.0. The goal of the new release is to better organize the social web and make Cliqset the go-to "distributed social ecosystem," says CEO Darren Bounds. One part of this is a full integration with Twitter, to allow users to message Twitter users who haven't joined Cliqset yet. Previously the platform only allowed you to interact with Twitter users who were also Cliqset members. (Read Full Article)

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6. Buzznet Channels Facebook And Twitter; Adds News Feeds And The Ability To Follow Explore TechCrunch (May 13 2010) Buzznet, a social network based around people's interests (i.e. music, art, fashion, photography, movies, television, celebrities), is relaunching today with a more social layer on the platform. Buzznet, which is a property of pop culture media conglomerate BuzzMedia, allows users to share, curate and socialize content based on their personal interests. On the site now, users will be able create a custom content feed when they follow other users or follow communities around topics that appear on other contributors’ blogs. The ability to follow a user means tapping into their own content and sharing channel on Buzznet. Users will then ... (Read Full Article)

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