Web Content Curation

What is Content Curation?

Content Curation basically means that – out of all the content you find on the social web – you pass on the most valuable stuff to your network.

A slightly more coherent definition of someone who curates content comes from marketing expert Rohit Bhargava:
A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.

Source: What is Content Curation?

Content Curation Primer | Beth’s Blog

Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation.     Content curators provide a customized, vetted selection of the best and most relevant  resources on a very specific topic or theme.

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The Three S’s of Content Curation:  Seek, Sense, Share
Content curation is a three-part process:  Seek, Sense, and Share.    Finding the information or “seeking”  is only one third of the task as Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools  for doing it.     

Source: Content Curation Primer | Beth’s Blog

8 Ways to Find Great Social Media Content - YouTube

Source: 8 Ways to Find Great Social Media Content - YouTube

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use

[...]  a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems. [...]

Source: 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use

Curate, create and conquer: Journalism 2.0 startups to watch

From aggregators that tailor content exactly to their readers, to citizen-powered news outfits, here are some of the startups changing the face of journalism in 2012.

The content curators

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Ones to watch: Zite, Pulse, flipboard.com, Skygrid, News.me, techmeme.com, Storify, Paper.li, scoop.it, Percolate

The content creators

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Ones to watch: Digital Journal, PandoDaily, ThePhenomlist, The Bay Citizen, Allvoices, California Watch, Patch, Spot.us, The Verge, Propublica, Examiner

Source: Curate, create and conquer: Journalism 2.0 startups to watch

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Google's Open-Source Chrome OS

Clipped from: Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online

Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system

Google Chrome OS is a development of its “Chrome” web browser. The search giant initially aims to put the new system on small low-cost computers known as “netbooks”, which have been selling better than more powerful PCs. Google said that it believed the software will eventually be used on PCs as well.

Clipped from: Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

[...] today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
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Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Clipped from: Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

[...] This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?
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What Google is doing is not recreating a new kind of OS, they’re creating the best way to not need one at all.

So why release this new OS instead of using Android? After all, it has already been successfully ported to netbooks. Google admits that there is some overlap there. But a key difference they don’t mention is the ability to run on the x86 architecture.

Clipped from: Gizmodo - Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X - Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X

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Still, Windows and OSX will always have a spacious home in the computer world, undoubtedly. Some apps will always require native architecture, and the businessmen, code-monkeys, graphic designers, video editors and other connoisseurs of nuanced computing would be foolhardy to try and work strictly in the cloud.

But the final hurdle for Google to overcome is easy, accessible online storage. Will they be able to go after Amazon's S3 cloud servers? And perhaps more importantly, will they be able to offer the service for free? If they can let us really extend our hard drives into the cloud, look out. Chrome OS will be a force to be reckoned with.

Sources:

1. Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online
2. Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
3. Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.
4. Gizmodo - Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X - Google Chrome OS

Related:

1. Google Announces Chrome OS - PC World
2. Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer
3. Sources: Google OS lives (and it's coming to a netbook near you) - Ars Technica

Google App Engine -- Examples

Examples of applications built with the recently launched Google App Engine.

clipped from appgallery.appspot.com Google App Engine Find apps by category Tools Communication Games News Finance Sports Lifestyle Technology Enterprise clipped from appgallery.appspot.com Jamendo Music Game MobWrite Add real-time, multi-user collaboration to any web application Loan Amortization Calculator clipped from appgallery.appspot.com GURL Shrink long un-manageable URLs into smaller easier ones My Mood Lets you know how the world is feeling today clipped from appgallery.appspot.com 777 Slot A simple 777 Slot machine for you. enjoy! Where are you? Post your messages on the world map and communicate with people all over the world. ToDone Lightweight todo lists for people who just want to get things done. Shell An interactive Python shell. clipped from appgallery.appspot.com MyApp App Engine Gallery

Related:
Google App Engine - Google Code
ClipsToNote: Google App Engine

Sprout -- Interactive and Portable Web Content

Sprout allows you to build, manage and publish sophisticated web content (widgets) including websites, banners, videos, photos, music, RSS feeds and more.

clipped from sproutbuilder.com With Sprout, you can create sophisticated and dynamic interactive content in three steps: 1. Build 2. Publish 3. Manage clipped from sproutbuilder.com Sprouts are interactive and portable chunks of web content. Some people call them widgets, mashups or mini-sites but we just call them sprouts. Promotional Personal Informational clipped from sproutbuilder.com Whether you're a beginner or a pro, Sprout has a range of features that will allow you to build, manage and publish sophisticated content including websites, banners, videos, photos, music, RSS feeds...whatever you can think of. Pre-Built Templates Maximum Flexibility Easy Asset Management Dozens of Components Final Touches Flexible Publishing Advanced Tracking

Reuters Launches API for Semantic Markup of Web Documents

Reuters has launched an API that does semantic markup on HTML documents. Using language processing, AI techniques, and massive databases, the API allows for recognizing people, places, companies, and events on Web pages, allowing for better search and more intelligent browsing.

Open Calais API BasicsThe idea behind Calais is simple - identify interesting bits into metadata in documents. In this implementation the focus is on People, Companies, Places, and Events, but surely the technology can be adopted to other entities. The heavy lifting is done by the combination of a natural language processing engine and a massive hard coded, learning database that Clear Forest has built.

What's In It For Reuters?

Reuters has opened up a generous API, but why? During our interview, Gerry Campbell, the President/Global Head of Search & Content Technologies at Reuters, explained that Reuters wants the world to be tagged. When the world's content is quickly and readily accessible to their customers, Reuters wins. Semantic technologies result in better, faster, more precise and relevant information, and Reuters, as a big player in the information space, wants to be one of the first companies delivering this kind of experience.

Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged - ReadWriteWeb

Related:
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Digital Media Europe: News - Reuters launches open API for Calais
Reuters Releases Open API for New Calais Web Service - Semantic Web Company - Semantische Technologien, Web 2.0, Social Software, Ausbildung, Seminare, Studien
Reuters Releases Open API for New Calais Web Service | Reuters

Scroogle

Google without traces

An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters.

Scroogle

related:
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Scroogle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WorldNetDaily: Fed up with Google? Try Scroogle.org
Microsoft bans Scroogle | The Register

Embeddable Google Maps Street View Panoramas

Embed Street View panorama's visible in Google Maps in your blog or website

Go to Google Maps and find a panorama you like and select "Link to this page":


The result is something like:

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Google LatLong: Enjoy the holidays with new Street View cities and embeddable panoramas

Future Scanner

The Digg of future-focused content

[...] the Future Scanner, essentially scans the web for the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and then sorts it by future Year and Category. When Community members locate these types of cool links, they tag them accordingly and submit them to site via their personal accounts. Other users then vote on the material they find most interesting or beneficial and the best content ends up being featured on the front page. Users are also encouraged to link together related scans and resources, so that it becomes easier to find more information on a given topic.

Future Scanner

Related:
Future Scanner: A Digg Clone That Tracks The Future
Future Scanner: A Digg Clone That Tracks The Future | moraaz.org - feed all tech!

Robots Are Taking Over the Web (video)

It's Our Web

It's Our Web: Free Speech TV Community

via: Independent News Portal | COANews.org | COA News
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Definr: Super Fast Dictionary

A fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0

definr - incredibly fast dictionary

related: Digg - Definr: Super Fast Dictionary You Haven't Used Before
definr - about

Iconfinder

Search engine for icons:

Icon search engine - Iconfinder

Website Offers Fake Doctor Notes (video)

Feeling like playing hooky, but nervous about getting caught? The Excused Absence Network has got your back. For about $25, students and employees can buy excuse notes that appear to come from doctors or hospitals.

Technorati Tags: weird, web, tools, online, Doctor Notes, Fake

WikipediaVision - Anonymous edits (almost) in real-time

For each wikipedia edit I display the title of the article, the summary of the edit (if the person who made it gave any summary), link to the changes that were made to the article, geographical location of the wikipedia user and the time the edit happened.

WikipediaVision (beta)

related:
flickrvision (beta)
twittervision
Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bug Labs - Open Source Hardware Modules

The Lego of Gadgets

clipped from www.buglabs.net

clipped from www.buglabs.net

What is Bug Labs?

Bug Labs is developing BUG: An open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform.

clipped from www.buglabs.net

BUGmodules are the functional components used to add capabilities to your BUG device. Each module connects
to the BUGbase, and installing and swapping modules is literally a snap. Each additional module exponentially increases
the overall function of your BUG, and every combination unlocks virtually unlimited new potential devices.

GPS

Digital Camera / Videocam

Touch-sensitive, Color LCD Screen

Accelerometer, Motion Sensor

clipped from www.buglabs.net

Bug Labs

via: Bug Labs: The Lego of Gadgets | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
related:
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Bug Labs BUGbase and BUGmodules hands-on - Engadget
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MAKE: Blog: Bug Labs (photos)

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