Articles from GigaOM

1. Can you gamify content curation? This startup thinks so Explore GigaOM (Oct 1 2012) Industry & Business News Can a virtual stock exchange for content curation, combined with Reddit-style voting, lead to better online video discovery? Turkey-based media curation startup Woisio thinks so, and it is trying to prove its theory with a private beta test of its new platform. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   New York   Los Angeles   Content Curation

2. Why traditional media should be afraid of Twitter — Tech News and Analysis Explore GigaOM (Jun 13 2012) Industry & Business News Twitter is launching curated “hashtag pages" and moving into the space of providing curated information - similar to media organizations. Twitter is curating information, just as media companies do... it is showing signs of becoming a full-fledged editorial operation. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Huffington Post   Japan

3. Shopping Sites Curate, Too Explore GigaOM (May 21 2012) Keith Ferry, president of Markdown.com, and new president of Marketplace, explains the value of a curated shopping site: “We are handpicking and curating [small businesses] for our audience.” (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   America

4. Twitter Bolstering Both its Curation and Creation Capabilities Explore GigaOM (May 15 2012) Twitter illustrates the blended use by a content source of content curation and content creation. And Twitter is making moves to bolster both its curation features and its "content creation" features. Twitter now will provide users who want it a weekly curated email designed to show users content they might be interested in from elsewhere in their social graph. The email is clearly an extension of the move towards curation that Twitter made when it acquired Summify earlier in 2012. Also, Twitter appears to be hiring editors and producers to curate content on an active basis. Twitter apparently is looking ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

5. "Big Data" Analysis Will Aid Marketing Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2012) One oft-mentioned advantage of content curation is that it helps drive better search engine rankings. Of course, that is a hoped-for proxy for direct business results, such as higher sales. As desire to mine "big data," business-to-business marketers will find themselves wanting much-better analytics, to refine marketing strategies and tactics, including the benefits of content curation. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon   Los Angeles   IBM

6. The personalized web is just an interest graph away Explore GigaOM (Mar 15 2012) Derrick Harris opines on how social graphs can be used to aid content curation and personalization: Much as social graphs are maps of our social media connections that follow us across the web, interest graphs are maps of our interests. Some companies want them to follow us across the web, too, meaning that wherever we go, there we are. There ll be no more need to search through news sites for the stories we want, or shopping sites for the products we want, because the site will know as soon as we hit its system who we are and what ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon   New York

7. When is the social curation bubble going to burst? Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) French startup Pearltrees just scored another $6 million to help scale up its social curation service that helps people save, sort and share what they find on the web. But with dozens of services in play, is this a bubble waiting to pop? (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Curation   Social Curation

8. Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future Explore GigaOM (Jan 19 2012) Twitter's purchase of Summify, which delivered an email summary of interesting links from a user's social networks, shows Twitter is trying to get smarter about how it filters the flood of information users are exposed to. It's a challenge that's only going to grow. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Curation

9. Use content curation to keep your team on the same page — Online Collaboration Explore GigaOM (Jun 23 2011) Web content curation is nothing new. What is new, however, is that there are a growing number of tools that allow you to do your own curation for your own purposes. How can curation help keep your remote team on the same page? (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   RSS   Content Curation   Curation

10. @Xerox new Content Curation Tool: @Trailmeme and the Web of Intent Explore GigaOM (Aug 26 2010) Trailmeme is a conceptual necessity to the organization and creation of Web content in the endless flux of the stream. I feel it is evolving a new and valuable breed of content curation and creation. I'm not allowed to say too much about Trailmeme, as it's still under wraps, but I do want to give a few high-level observations. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

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