Comments on: Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future

By: icylave

icylave — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:56:21 +0000

I am a Chinese translator, and I can hardly find a proper translation for the word “Curation” in this context. It seems to mean “editing” or “filtering” of data. What on earth is its accurate meaning?

By: Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:34:29 +0000

Will look into it for sure…thanks for the idea!

By: Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:31:19 +0000

Sorry for the delay in response…they may eventually use the filtering or algorithms, but Twitter actually acquired a company called Julpan last summer that was also in the same basic space…that team is in the NYC offices, and as far as I know they are the ones focused on search and discovery at Twitter…

So I think if they were going to integrate the Summify tech, they would most likely have put them in the NYC offices rather than the CA offices (where I believe the email efforts are being built up)…

By: Ming

Ming — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:08:45 +0000

Not promoting, but making a connection with curation.

By: Ronan Amicel

Ronan Amicel — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:57:18 +0000

Thanks for this insightful article, Matthew.

For those looking for an alternative to Summify, you might want to check out http://focus.io/

Every day, you get a summary of the most popular articles in your Twitter timeline. This allows you to save time, while making sure you’re not missing the important stuff.

Give it a try, and tell us what you think!

http://focus.io/

By: Pawan Deshpande

Pawan Deshpande — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:15:08 +0000

I agree that there is a void in the social media industry for services that help organize the large flow of content. Filtering, is one potential solution, but many find it to be limiting because it only cuts down the content, but doesn’t help with presenting it any meaningful way. Another, more beneficial way to address information overload without putting limits on access is content curation – the process of finding, organizing and sharing content online. Summify is a great example of a content curation tool for readers.

There is also a growing need for curation for business, especially as the roles of marketers and publishers increasingly merge. Robust curation tools have emerged—such as Curata (www.getcurata.com), from my company HiveFire—that allow marketers to choose which topics are most important to their businesses and then create a one-stop site for prospects and customers to access the most timely, relevant content.

Your readers may find my eBook, “Taming the Flood of Online Content” especially resourceful as it provides some best practices on curation and how it can be utilized by businesses to calm the chaos of online content. It can be accessed here: http://info.getcurata.com/ebooktamingtheflood.html

By: Suzanne McDonald

Suzanne McDonald — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:11:21 +0000

I suppose there is a danger of manipulation by algorithm. Consider mainstream media … There’s a wire service and actual humans making decisions about what should be covered for a particular audience, a la broadcast channels: CNN vs FOX.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:38:40 +0000

Why so much fuzz about social media? The real information lies in the Closed professional networks, shaped like social media but with business critical apps inside. That’s where you really need to organize information. I think the old intranet is dead.

By: Haz0

Haz0 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:21:59 +0000

Muchas gracis por el link, buenas ideas : Thank you very much for the link, great stuff

By: Balaji

Balaji — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:26:30 +0000

well, we at in-a-gist (http://inagist.com) have also been trying our algorithms to reduce this information overload. hope to find commercially interesting things from the result set.