Despite being touted initially as a ‘Facebook killer’, it actually seems more and more people are coming round to thinking of it as a potential rival to Twitter in the curation of streams of content. Similar to how Twitter might have evolved lists, or how Tweetdeck used them to create a more workable interface at scale. Crowdsourcing social networks bad crowdsourcing google tweetdeck twitterBut then I spotted the always interesting Andrea Phillips had beaten me to is on her blog, Deus Ex Machinatio. MORE >>

Content Curation: Learning from others and sharing their knowledge June 29th, 2010 | Category: Blogging , Content , Social Media written by: Heidi Cool Over the past few months the subject of content curation has been coming up more often. Some of you have actually been curating content for years, others are just hearing about it, so it seems a good topic for discussion. Curators at the Cleveland Museum of Art took care to select the right pieces, placement and accompanying art when re-doing the museums Armor Court. The process of content curation is pretty simple. MORE >>

My Work Content Curation Subscribe Dare To Comment Fresh insights on social media and content curation marketing from a young professional in the field Am I curating yet? Drawing the lines between creation, aggregation and curation by Ian Greenleigh on June 11, 2010 · 9 comments The tweet below sums up what I suspect many of us feel about the  debate surrounding creation, aggregation, and curation. think the word "curate" needs some curation. Now, "curation is king." Can there ever be a standard, accepted definition for curation? MORE >>

TweetDeck. Curation tools allow you to gather and automatically share content. Today’s guest post is written by Yvette Pistorio. . Because of the fast pace of social media, we are constantly bombarded with distractions from one social network or another. You have to participate and engage consistently, Facebook seems to change something on a weekly basis, Google has all of these animal-named announcements, new social networks pop up all the time…it’s exhausting to keep up with everything! ” Some of the answers I received…. Twitter. Plurk. Star Wars fan forums. Reddit. MORE >>

Mapping Startups & Services Filtering For Relevance In A Matrix DataSift Curation Engine Aims for Relevance in Real-time On August 27, 2010, in Social Web , by Mahendra Palsule As I have said many times previously, if 2009 was all about the hype of Real-time, the future is all about capturing Relevance in real-time. Datasift has partnered with Twitter to get the full Twitter firehose and is building a platform to enable curation and filtering in real-time. Text and language of tweets Geo-location of tweets Verified users Source of tweets – web, Seesmic, TweetDeck, etc. MORE >>