1. Can Venture Capitalize on Curation? Explore magnify.net (May 18 2011) The sheer volume of Web content makes it clear that content without curation is simply noise Yuri Milner, the VC whose Russian Digital Sky Technologies (DST) group has put money into Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, was quoted at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit as saying, Curation is the next big thing. Said Milner: "The question is, 'How do you select what's relevant for you?' And my guess is that it's probably going to be 50% driven by your network and 50% driven by algorithms." Upon hearing Milner's prophetic words, thousands of PowerPoint decks were reworked overnight to ... (Read Full Article)

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2. Fred Wilson, Uri Milner: Is Curation VC's Big New Thing? Explore magnify.net (May 17 2011) There are some things we all agree are broken. Finding stuff on the web is broken. The volume of 'stuff' has rapidly exceeded the tools we've counted on for the past 10 years or so. And, the speed of 'stuff' makes validating new data harder and harder. Now a number of the web's most trusted voices (and interestingly, deepest pockets) have started to embrace a concept that could have massive ramifications. To manage, and make useful, the massive growth of content on the web, sites must embrace curation. Fred Wilson, who's blog AVC often heralds the changing ... (Read Full Article)

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3. The Heart of the Realtime Revolution Explore magnify.net (May 16 2011) You could feel it in the air. The world had changed. It wasn't that the web had gotten less important, in fact, very much the opposite. The web was, until the day before yesterday, a series of pages that could be viewed on your computer. Now it had somehow broken free of its bonds and sprung to life. At SXSW - content has surpassed the technology. The talk was about access and devices. API's were the new kings of content. The already brilliantly successful TED Talks were no longer restricted to a website - as TED's Media Director announced ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Media Black Hole: So Much News That We'll Implode? Explore magnify.net (Feb 21 2011) Have you noticed? The news cycle is spinning faster. And faster. Andfasterandfaster. Congressman Christopher Lee (R-NY) resigns because of a scandal even before the scandal is known to the public. On websites we get Tuesday's news on Monday. As online commenters, we discuss articles we haven't read and dis movies we haven't watched. Google anticipates the stories we want to see even before we know we want to see them. And as one person tweeted recently: "Tunisia's revolution took four weeks. Egypt: 17 days. Who's next and how much time do they have?" When it ... (Read Full Article)

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5. Is Curation King Explore magnify.net (Feb 17 2011) Social Media Blog Post By Ellie Behling By now we're all overly familiar with the term curation. The word might have lost its novelty, but its importance is only growing. Information overload has increased the need for curation ― both in the form of tools and a new way of thinking, explained Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net and author of the book Curation Nation. Technology alone will not solve the problem; it's a misunderstanding to think that content producers will be replaced by robots, he said. “People are stuck on this idea that curation replaces creation,” said Rosenbaum, speaking at ... (Read Full Article)

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6. Jason Hirschhorn On MySpace, MTV, And What's Next (nws, Via) Explore Business Insider (Aug 18 2010) Science "I believe in curation and I'm always amazed but also incredibly suspect of algorithmic curation, because I think sometimes it can implode on itself, meaning it thinks it knows you, and therefore never introduces anything new to you." (Read Full Article)

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7. Here's What's Really Going On In Online Media Consumption. by Steve @Magnify. Great Analysis Explore Business Insider (Jun 29 2010) Marketing , Newspapers There are some clear winners, and losers, in this overview of trends in traffic on news sites. Winners include The Week, Huffington Post, Mediaite.com, New York Magazine, Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Daily Beast. While traffic doesn't reflect profits,and a number of these sites have spent considerable money to grow their presence, the winners all show a mix of large collections of content, mixing high quality created content with contributed, and curated content. (Read Full Article)

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8. Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King Explore magnify.net (Jun 18 2010) Social Media "Content is King" -- no longer. Today, the world has changed. "Curation Is King." Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on. I'm ready. First, why content is dead: Content used to be the high quality media that came out of the very pointed end of the funnel. Articles in the New York Times. Movies from Miramax. Thursday night comedy from NBC. Books published by Simon and Schuster. Creative folks wrote pitches, treatments, sample chapters, pilots, but only the best of the best got published. Then, the web came along and blew that up. Kaboom ... (Read Full Article)

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9. Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King Explore Business Insider (Jun 15 2010) Social Media "Content is King" -- no longer. Today, the world has changed. "Curation Is King." Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on. I'm ready. First, why content is dead: (Read Full Article)

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10. Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King - Business Insider Explore articles.businessinsider.com (Jun 15 2010) Social Media "Content is King" -- no longer. Today, the world has changed. "Curation Is King." Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on. (Read Full Article)

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11. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay Explore FastCompany.com (May 10 2010) Part of the reason that human curation is so critical is simply the vast number of people who are now making and sharing media. “Everyone is a media outlet”, says Shirky. “The point of everyone being a media outlet is really not at all complicated. It just means that we can all put things out in the public view now.” (Read Full Article)

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12. A Wolff In Web Clothing: A Steve Rosenbaum interview with #Newser founder Michael Wolff Explore Business Insider (Mar 30 2010) Newspapers , Search But now he’s an aggregator, having created and launched Newser.com, a collection of news links and snippets. Wolff will find and filter, and write a bit, to build a new media enterprise. So, in sitting with the writer turned aggregator the first question is an obvious one: why? Why take another bite at a web media start up when his last attempt ended so badly “I love writing very long pieces for Vanity Fair. This turns out to be something much different,” explains Wolf. “It is a much different feel. It is a much different rhythm. I mean ... (Read Full Article)

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13. Bob Garfield: Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue speaks on old media needs for curation Explore Business Insider (Mar 22 2010) Bob Garfield has spent most of his professional career in and among the makers of what is now mostly called "Old Media." TV shows, magazines, television commercials, and advertising. So when The Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue wandered the halls of what is clearly the center of the New Media universe -- the South By Southwest Conference -- one might expect him to be a bit out of his element. Read the rest of this story »See Also:Media Curation Is Now Consumer-GeneratedCan 'Curation' Save Media? (Read Full Article)

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14. The Next Step In #Curation-Based Media: #Curate By Accident Explore Business Insider (Mar 5 2010) Search There's a new world order emerging around media and publishing. Producing original content is simply too expensive to sustain alone for all but the largest media companies. New models are essential -- and emerging. The solution that is emerging is known as curation. There's been plenty said about the emergence of professional curation. These are content hunters and gatherers who are increasingly scouring the web for contextual content to publish and amplify. (Read Full Article)

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