40 posts and columns on curation
Square Has Jumped on the E-Commerce Curation Bandwagon, Starring a Wacky Lumberjack Video
If you’re an e-commerce marketplace and you don’t “curate” your goods into “collections,” do you really exist?Voices
Listen Up, Computers: You Still Can’t Beat the Human Touch
Algorithms are essentially sequences of finely-tuned rules for organizing 1’s and 0’s. Humans, unlike computers, can break these rules.News Byte
Distributor Magnify, a Web Video Curator, Raises $1 Million
Magnify, a video distribution and curation startup, has raised $1 million from a group of investors that includes TED conference producer Chris Anderson and Chris Kelly, Facebook’s former chief privacy officer. Magnify, which has previously raised $4.2 million over five years, helps publishers find, sort and publish Web video on some 90,000 sites. The New York-based company has 13 employees.Five Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo’s Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App Companies on the Cheap
Warm entrepreneurial bodies: Priceless!New Flipboard: News and Posts Handpicked and Shared
A new second generation of Flipboard allows users to create and share their own handsome digital magazines with a few clicks and without any design talent required, says Walt.Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook’s Filter Bubbles
Friends? Who needs friends when you can just fall back on everybody to keep you informed?Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it (Updated)
Another step in its efforts to become a destination for content.I, Editor
There’s value in being divorced from your friends … I’d rather see what’s on the front of the New York Times.
— Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera on the value of human editing and curation