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1. Nara Wants To Build A Better Recommendation Platform, Starts With Restaurants Explore TechCrunch (Jun 26 2012) "Nara's Boston-based team, which consists of a healthy mix of entrepreneurs, artists, computer scientists, neuroscientists and astrophysicists, says that it wants to build nothing less than a "a next-generation personal internet platform." (Read Full Article)

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2. Science Makes Its First Acquisition: Pinpuff, A Klout For Pinterest That Measures ‘Pinfluence’ Explore TechCrunch (Jun 26 2012) Industry & Business News Science purchases Pinpuff. The deal is yet another a sign of how the ability to curate and mine social media information can be considered as important as the social media platforms themselves. (Read Full Article)

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3. Flipboard Officially Launches On Android, Adds Google+, YouTube And More Localized Versions Explore TechCrunch (Jun 22 2012) Industry & Business News Cureated Content App Flipboard is full of annoucements! It's been a big week for Flipboard's Google-related announcements. On Tuesday, the company revealed Google+ integration was coming to its social magazine, and today, the app is officially launching on all Android devices, including the Kindle Fire and the Nook. The Google+ integration, as well as newly added YouTube integration, is arriving today as well. The app will be available in Google Play, the Amazon Appstore for Android, the Nook Store, and in Samsung Apps. (Read Full Article)

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4. Storify Syndicates Content to Pulse Explore TechCrunch (Apr 17 2012) Storify, the startup that lets anyone "curate" stories from around the web by collecting posts from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, is today announcing its first-ever syndication deal. Through a new partnership with popular news reader Pulse, Storify's curated feeds will now appear within Pulse's app, allowing readers to subscribe to curated stories from a number of sources. The deal means a curated source now will be distributed on an equal footing with other content sources. (Read Full Article)

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5. Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad Explore TechCrunch (Feb 22 2012) Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have curated a total of more than 3 million social objects. And now you can do that curation from your iPad. The company was already mobile, in the sense that stories (which are essentially curated timelines of content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and more) created with its tools could be viewed on smartphones and tablets. But with the new Storify ... (Read Full Article)

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6. Lover.ly: Explore TechCrunch (Feb 14 2012) Lover.ly, an inspiration engine and Pinterest-like startup for weddings, has raised $500,000 from Lover.ly is a centralized place that helps brides discover and save wedding ideas. The site is designed to help brides, vendors, and wedding enthusiasts find inspiration (from wedding blogs), people to hire, and things to buy. Similar to Pinterest, the site allows users to curate board of ideas and make them public for users to view and draw inspiration. Currently, the site has an archive of over 130,000 images organized by editors and its community of users. Lover.ly offers both editor-curated inspiration ... (Read Full Article)

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7. Social News Network XYDO Pivots, Goes B2B for Content Creation Explore TechCrunch (Feb 8 2012) In case you haven't noticed, the Internet has become a content fire hose. There's a lot of junk floating around out there (my posts not included, of course), and, as a result, a spate of digital readers and aggregators have popped up to offer our blood-shot eyes improved filtering mechanisms that channel the noise into signal. Some of them even get snatched up by Twitter, a la Summify.One of these startups, the Summify competitor and Utah-based XYDO, launched in May of last year, followed shortly thereafter by closing a $1.25 million round of series A financing ... (Read Full Article)

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8. Return Visit-Aware: The Future Of Content Streams That Know What You’ve Consumed Explore TechCrunch (Nov 27 2011) When someone you haven't seen in a while asks you "What's up?" or "How are you?", you probably give them a high-level summary of the major life events from the months since you last spoke. When you speak to someone you see frequently, you probably respond to the same questions with close-up, specific descriptions of your activities over past few days. (Read Full Article)

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9. Catch Up On A Day Or Week Of Missed News With Riversip Tech Reader Explore TechCrunch (Nov 16 2011) You go on vacation, spend a day with the kids, buckle down on a project, and suddenly you're hopelessly behind on tech news. You could scan back through the pages of your favorite sites, but you'd have little way of knowing which stories were most important. (Read Full Article)

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10. Visually Beautiful Recipe Curation Site Gojee Adds Drinks To The Mix Explore TechCrunch (Nov 10 2011) Foodie favorite Gojee, which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way, is branching out today to beverages, and will offer drink recipes (including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks). (Read Full Article)

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11. 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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12. 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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13. Foursquare Gets Into The Crowdsourced Curation Game With Tips Lists Explore TechCrunch (Aug 15 2011) Foursquare has launched its Tip Lists features today, attempting to capitalize on people’s unending desire to create lists about locations, like Top Five Coffee Shops in SF, etc etc. Up until now your Foursquare Tips have sort of roamed free on the app, without rhyme or reason or real incentive to add more. Today the company is trying to improve on the Tips experience and get users to fancy themselves local experts. After all, you must know something about some place in the city you live in right? (Read Full Article)

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14. 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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15. Eventually, One Of These Updates Will Make Google News Not Suck At Tech News, Right? Explore TechCrunch (May 16 2011) For as long as I can remember, there has been one constant in tech news: Google News sucks at it. Now, that's not entirely fair since Google News doesn't actually provide any of their own content. Instead, they use the supposedly magical Google algorithms to curate others' content from around the web. Still, there's just no way around it — the product, at least for tech news, sucks. Again, this is nothing new. I've been writing this article at least once a year for five years or so. But what's amazing to me is how many ... (Read Full Article)

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16. Google I/O: ShortForm Curates Sandbox Startup Demo Videos Into A Single Channel Explore TechCrunch (May 5 2011) Google I/O, Google's developer (cough, nerd) conference, comes to San Francisco next Tuesday for two days of peace, love, panels, and coding. Each year, the conference plays host to its so-called "Sandbox", in which developers and startups demo their apps, code, and technical delights. This year, thanks to ShortForm, a video curation community, those startup demos can all be found in one place -- on ShortForm's Google I/O channel. The San Francisco-based startup has built a cool video curation platform that allows users to create personalized channels of web video content, easily pulling clips from YouTube and ... (Read Full Article)

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17. Video Curation Is Growing Up, ShortForm Hits One Million Visitors Explore TechCrunch (Mar 31 2011) With 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the Google-owned video behemoth would be the second biggest search engine were it standalone site. I'd say these are fa web video has become a powerful medium. But, I think it's also fair to say that this powerful medium is in serious need of curation. What if you're just looking for a quick laugh, a short video, and don't want to wade through billions of videos -- what if you want to create your own, personally curated streaming video channel? Hmmm? Thankfully, content curation has come to ... (Read Full Article)

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18. Former Myspacers Build Link Curator ‘Tagging Robot’ Explore TechCrunch (Mar 14 2011) Former VP of Product at Myspace Todd Leeloy and Myspace Product Manager Joe Munoz have launched a semantic tagging network and link curation service today called Tagging Robot. Tagging Robot currently crawls your Facebook newsfeed and separates your links based on topics, as well as giving you relevant topics data for each link. Tagging Robot uses NLP and Machine Learning to build users a topic centered profile, and uses your Facebook Interests and Social Graph to populate the page. What you immediately see on your profile is a list of recommended links (based on followed topics), a list of all ... (Read Full Article)

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19. StartupDigest Takes $200,000 To Curate Information For Entrepreneurs Explore TechCrunch (Mar 9 2011) Let's say you're an entrepreneur who wants to keep up with the latest startup news and events. You could scan places like Twitter, Facebook, and Quora, but the picture would likely be incomplete. You could use RSS, but if you fully tried to keep up your day would quickly become a nightmare (trust me from experience). Assuming you're already busy beyond your wildest dreams, the best option may be a curated one. That's essentially StartupDigest's pitch to would-be subscribers. And today they get to expand their scope, with $200,000 in funding from The Kauffman ... (Read Full Article)

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20. Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine Explore TechCrunch (Jan 17 2011) 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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21. Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team Explore TechCrunch (Dec 6 2010) Content curation and mapping service Pearltrees has decided to focus on the fact that people want to do things in groups and has as of today upgraded its core product with a groups functionality, called Pearltrees Team. Now accesible just by logging in, Pearltrees Team allows you to hook up with other people in order to create a Pearltree collaboratively in realtime. (Read Full Article)

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22. Curated.by Aims To Be The “Smithsonian Of The Web”, But They Need Your Help Explore TechCrunch (Nov 23 2010) Last night was interesting. I was sitting down to do some last-minute research for a post I was working on (this one) when news began to break that North Korea had just attacked South Korea. As usual, news was flowing through Twitter faster than any one source, but I needed a way to filter the noise. Oddly enough, the product I was writing about is perfect for that: Curated.by. Using Curated.by's extension, I began flagging tweets that I found to be most useful for the Korea situation. Then I checked the Curated.by site to see that ... (Read Full Article)

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23. Preempting Search: Vertical Search may provide a way to move beyond Google. Is the B2B Marketer interested? Explore TechCrunch (Aug 24 2010) Outside of a tectonic shift in search results/quality – think how offering 100x more email storage encouraged people to switch webmail companies back in 2004 -- people are not going to ditch Google as their primary search engine. And Google isn’t taking any chances – by paying Dell $1B for their search toolbar to be pre-installed on new Dell PCs, or pushing Android (who’s the default search engine?), they are doing their part to make current habits continue and lock down their whole “supply chain.” (Read Full Article)

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24. @Cliqset 2.0 Launches With Deeper Twitter Integration And Content Curation Explore TechCrunch (Jun 30 2010) 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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