Articles from ReadWriteWeb

1. Why Topic Pages Are The Next Big Thing Explore ReadWriteWeb (Aug 23 2012) Industry Trends Good article that highlights why the organization of curated content has not been important to date, but will be in the future through topic pages: Chronological and real-time consumption of content just doesn't work anymore.One of those reasons was topical organization of content in services like Medium, the latest product from two of Twitter's founders. ... The time for topic pages has come. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   RSS   Italy   Chicago

2. Do Reading Habits Encourage Curation? Explore ReadWriteWeb (Mar 15 2012) Laura Paine has a simple answer when asked why Pinterest exploded in popularity at this particular juncture in Internet history. The former reporter watched her newspaper cut positions, go from being a daily to a weekly and focus more on creating short, question-and-answer pieces, video and photo galleries in an effort to cling to dwindling online traffic. "People aren't really reading anymore." Whether that trend also affects business to business content marketing is not so clear. (Read Full Article)

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3. Storify Update Feels Like a Cleaner Social News Experience Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011) The new foundation flip-flops the search and editor sides of the interface, and places a higher priority on each content curator writing their own text for the story. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Marshall Kirkpatrick   Blog   Storify

4. Curated.by Launches Public Beta, Brings Collaborative Curation to ... Explore ReadWriteWeb (Nov 23 2010) Curated.by - a collaborative curation tool that helps users organize anything and everything with a link, from Wikipedia to Tweets to this here blog post - announced the ... ... The space is heating up, with Storify and Keepstream both making their own efforts, and it will be interesting to see how Curated.by's latest incarnation (it was previously a tool to curate Tweets) pans out in the burgeoning realm of content curation. Curated.by offered an introduction to the ...ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/ (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   England   Mike Melanson   Content Curation

5. Adventures in Social Curation and Context With Storify Explore ReadWriteWeb (Sep 30 2010) Curation is currently one of "the chosen" buzz words in the social media zeitgeist (that's another). But as abundant as the talk of curation is, actual curation tools ... ... Remix tweets, status messages, and web pages. Embed on your website or blog. A Capital Factory 2010 (Austin, TX) graduate. Bag the Web - http://bagtheweb.com. Find, Bag, Share. BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Austin   WordPress   Curation

6. Sneak Peak at Loud3r's New Curation Power Tool. More Content Curation Tools Explore ReadWriteWeb (Jul 8 2010) As social media and information overload spill out over the boundaries of old media's monopoly on publishing, a big piece of the future will belong to the curators of the world. (Read Full Article)

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7. World's Biggest Blogging Platform -@wordpress Adds Curation Feature! Explore ReadWriteWeb (Jun 1 2010) Will curation truly become a substantial market, capable of sustaining itself? Previous developments in the democratization of publishing have had mixed results. Blogging, photo sharing and video distribution have taken off. Mapping and podcasting, arguably, haven't caught on as widely or sustainably. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Marshall Kirkpatrick   Curation

8. Twitter to Release Curation Feature Today that allows more newsmastering of tweets Explore ReadWriteWeb (May 3 2010) This is a little reminiscent of European blogger Robin Good's argument a few years ago that a concept called Newsmastering was going to become the chic occupation at any firm with business touched by the online river of news. For some reason that hasn't happened yet. It seems that online curation, editorial selection of items flowing through dynamic collections of online sources, has proven too removed from direct, immediate and crude value to have caught on with more than a handful of companies, most of which were already in the publishing business. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Robert Scoble   Curation   Blog

9. Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source Explore ReadWriteWeb (Mar 15 2010) The content curator kings on wikipedia are very selective on what should appear on their pages. I think blogs are much more open and allow many more voices to be heard. Who decides which story is correct? ... PR firms have been using Wikipedia for marketing and market manipulation for years. Wikipedia's culture of protected anonymity makes the site ideal not only for deliberate leaks to build buzz, but also astroturfing through planted operatives who pretend to represent ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Austin   Mike Melanson

10. Baratunde Thurston on Content Curation, Real-Time Search, and "Analytics Porn" Explore ReadWriteWeb (Feb 10 2010) In New York City, on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel, we caught up with social media superhero Baratunde Thurston, web editor for The Onion. Thurston started getting into this whole "Internet" thing in simpler times when the social web was called Usenet. He now carves out his niche at the overlap of the Venn diagram of comedy, politics, and tech. As an official Internet old-timer who makes it his business to stay relevant, Thurston has particularly useful insights on the business of curating applicable content with great efficiency and timeliness. (Read Full Article)

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