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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. I’m not a big fan of Paper.li

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

Webbiquity SMM

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! These technologies include Browse My Stuff (which powers both the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ) and Paper.li , which enables users to create custom online “newspapers&# based on a Twitterer and his/her followers, a hashtag subject or a Twitter list. Post on Google Buzz.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Create your own online newspaper from Twitter and Facebook updates based on any topic or group of contributors. A realtime social search engine that pulls current and recent results for any term from Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious. If you need more of an ego boost, try TwitterGrader. DialogFeed. ** 5 Stars.

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Why paper.li and automated curation are doomed to fail

Danny WhatMough

adapts its auto-tweet » Why paper.li and automated curation are doomed to fail September 5, 2010 // Tweet If you’ve been active on Twitter recently, you will have no doubt come across paper.li. As the creators themselves say: “paper.li jamescrawford said: Keep em to yourself RT @DannyWhatmough: Why paper.li

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Three Ways Users Can Help Keep Twitter Vibrant

Webbiquity SMM

That seems to be a common question right now, according to Google. Furthermore, LinkedIn groups are challenging because each moderator sets his/her own rules (is posting a link to relevant blog post viewed as helpful, or spam?), and because LinkedIn has wrecked groups functionality, leading to a significant drop in participation.

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50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Secrets of Twitter Hashtags (For Those Still Unsure) by Interactive Insights Group. Tad Chef covers the best practices for SEO with Twitter: how to rank in search with your profile and tweets, get found in Twitter search, make your tweets spread virally and capitalize on Google real-time search. Twitter Strategy. Tweetake. ** 5 Stars.

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What really ended EMAP’s golden days?

The Way of the Web

I also took the chance to start playing with social media – we quickly had a Myspace page and Flickr group up and running, to be joined by Facebook and Twitter. That was around the same time as Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google. And that’s before we get into the likes of Paper.li, or Flipboard etc. (I