The Carriers’ Rebellion » Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters September 19, 2010 - 6:58 pm | Edited by Frédéric Filloux News aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms. It is a pure aggregator — actually an aggrefilter , as coined by Dan Farber, at the time editor-in-chief of Cnet, who recommended it. Another iteration of the concept, Memeorandum , aggregates political news; for reasons I don’t quite understand yet, it doesn’t work as well as the two others.) The relationship to news aggregation needs to be reconsidered. MORE >>

Switch to Feedly in under a minute. After discussing the news about Google Reader Shutdown , my search for an excellent RSS aggregator ended with Feedly. Feedly Feedly allowed us to set up a Google reader synced account in under a minute! Google Reader to Feedly. We use the Google Chrome browser, so we grab the Feedly extension for Chrome (600,000 Chrome users already use it). It syncs all your Google reader data and your Feedly account is ready to use. Here are some  suggested tips  by Feedly for a better migration experience. MORE >>

This can work two ways – it will either make Social Media Informer a more focused resource centre than Alltop’s social media feed, or it could narrow the news on display. Tags: Musings Social Media news feeds social media social media informer Joining the likes of Alltop and Social Media Today , new website Social Media Informer aims to collate the best social media news articles and blog posts and offer a one-stop shop for your social media needs. Judging by the resources already on display over there, hopefully it’s the former. No payments have been exchanged. MORE >>

But is this just a sign of RSS feeds becoming a part of Internet Past? Before Google announced they were shutting down Reader , I hadn’t looked at my feed in months, maybe a year, or more. ” This is mainly because  Twitter has become my RSS feed over the last couple of years. As I said in that back and forth, I have imported all of my Google Reader stuff into Feedly, but … as opposed to what my buddy Nathan Burgess said about this being the first nail in the coffin for Google, I’ll propose a different coffin. GERRGLE IS KERLLING MAH NERZ! MORE >>

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Content Curation versus Content Aggregation: A Velvet Mr. T Painting Two posts brought to my attention the discussion starting to take root about the worlds of content aggregation versus content curation. The phrase used was "curation is the new aggregation." Not an aggregator. Curation goes one step beyond aggregation by adding an active, ongoing editorial component. Curation and aggregation are similar in but a few ways. They both want to take lots of content and put it in a place [framework, feed, database, etc.] MORE >>