Comments on: The Future of Media: Storify and the Curatorial Instinct http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/ Fri, 24 May 2013 22:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Karan http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-625622 Fri, 20 May 2011 23:34:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-625622 Manging context is not a cut and past job. News Papers have columnist, reporters and Editors. Curation is an editorial activity. News Curation Example – http://bit.ly/jZFoF6

]]> By: Mario Valente http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619597 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:25:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619597 You should look at Bundlr http://gobundlr.com/

]]> By: Chirpinator http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619510 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:51:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619510 Twitter is probably most in need of curating…information of value is buried in an endless flood of noise.

Chirpstory.com provides a good solution. It specializes in creating stories out of Tweets through an intuitive drag and drop interface. Its sister site, Togetter, is Japan’s largest curation service with over 2 million users.

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619484 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:05:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619484 Exactly! Precisely why I think Twitter sucks and will die. I agree with you 100%. Bloggers have been doing this for ages.

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619483 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:02:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619483 How is this concept different to bloggers posting links and giving opinion a la Daring Fireball?

]]> By: Harriet Meth http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619434 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:23:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619434 I for one am waiting for curation with context so it’s not just another stream of news but something that sorts as well as makes sense out of all of this information. Too bad the msm organizations haven’t jumped on this yet, especially print pubs like Time and Newsweek which have flirted with this off and on (lamely admittedly) for the past few years.

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619403 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:49:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619403 One of these days you cut and paste frauds are going to realize the hard way is: nobody cares about the “cover band.” they care about the producers of the original content. That always wins out. You are just cover bands, nothing more.

]]> By: Elias Shams http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619396 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:10:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619396 It’s no brainer to see that social media is here to stay for good. Given vast variety of the existing channels to choose and stick with, it’s time for such a hot space to enter into a new category. There is a need for a portal to provide a quick and intelligent decision for both the consumer and the enterprise about their online connections.

A Platform to Help us to Distinguish Our Quality vs. Quantity Friends, Fans, Followers, and Companies

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Flickr and others have been doing a decent job of providing additional marketing exposure and even in some cases, additional revenue. However, as more and more social networking sites pop up, how do you manage your brand across all these channels? Maybe more importantly, which one of these sites should you select as the one that will help you best reach your target audience? The proliferation of the social media avenues is becoming overwhelming.

This glut of information reminds me of the early 90’s when WWW was adopted broadly by the general public. Every company rushed to have a presence, to the point it became literally impossible to find the right information on the Web. That’s when a better generation of search engines – at first the Yahoo! and then Google – entered the market and helped us find the most relevant information by just typing simple keywords in their search box. If you had asked before Google launched, if there was a need for another search engine – most would have said no, we already have those….

Then came Web 1.0 & 2.0 – Youtube, Flickr, myspace, Facebook, Twitter and countless others have turned everyday people into content producers, influencers and experts. We basically tripled down on the information overload How do you know which channels to select for deploying your social media strategy? How do you know which one is the right channel to let your fans and followers to find you, your products, and services? Most importantly, who is Joe Smith that is recommending that person, that company, that product?

I hope my awesomize.me can accomplish such a mission. The site is not another social networking platform. Yet the portal to all your existing social media channels. The platform helps you, your fans, your potential clients to make an intelligent decision as to which company to connect to or follow via which social media channels and why? It’s free!

Elias
CEO & Founder
http://awesomize.me

]]> By: Filipe Batista http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619392 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:02:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619392 As william Mougayar said, curation is indeed just a means to an end. This end being a better understanding of something. It may be an event but it can also be other types of information that cannot be presented in a linear fashion. Therefore, a curation tool has to accomplish three main things. It has to be the scissor that cuts the photo, video, text or tweet from the webpage. Is has to be the board that arranges those clips in a way that can better express the meaning of that information. And it has of course to be able to show that board to the world. I’m metaphorical here because we have been doing this forever in the offline world with newspapers, this is the time we start doing it on the web.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/#comment-619383 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:46:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=335566#comment-619383 Thanks, Jack — I agree. Appreciate the comment.

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