Inspiration Overload

This potential reduction in the number of “digital friends” we have also has implications for companies regarding the field of social commerce. A study amongst college students suggested that only c.6% of Facebook contacts constituted “real” friends and it was this group who were likely to affect purchasing behaviour.[viii] If internet users therefore start distilling their friends down to this reduced set, use of social curation sites will represent an excellent opportunity for companies to target influential consumers.

Interessant artikel over de shift naar meer geselecteerde online bronnen, gebaseerd op je sociale netwerk a.k.a. social graph.

Ik vermoed dat dit niet de laatste app van 2011 zal zijn die iets doet met content curatie....

But now I have a new discovery problem: There's simply too much content for me to grok. (For more on this, see Twitter's Great Big Problem Is Its Massive Opportunity). Add in Facebook (people) and Google search (a proxy for everything on the web), and I'm overwhelmed by choices, all of them possibly good, but none of them ranked in a way that helps me determine which I should pay attention to, when, or why.

It's 1999 all over again, and I'm not talking about a financing bubble. The ecosystem is ripe for another new player to emerge, and that's one of the reasons I went to see the folks at Tumblr yesterday.

Fraai overzicht en vooruitzicht op diensten als Tumblr door terug te kijken naar de begindagen van Yahoo en Twitter

Like their museum counterparts, digital curators — either individuals, communities or Web services — are adept at unearthing gems and obscure artifacts from the Web that might be of interest to a larger audience.

A Content Curator is a DJ.  On Twitter, you are mixing content, content that the audience you hope to engage will find--not only interesting--but, irresistible, irresistible enough to comment on, @reply, retweet, share, like, etc. Ultimately, you hope your followers will enlist their followers to follow you because of your great content. Some call it a tribe, but think of it as your own club, a club where you are the DJ and people come to have a good time. As a Content Curator, you should be entertaining.

A content curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. The most important component of this job is the word "continually." In the real-time world of the Internet, this is critical.

Electronic democracy is about blogs, spam, flame wars, rather than the responsible participation in society. Sharing music means destroying the music industry. Digital artisanship means precarious employment. Dot com starts ups means existing monopolies on the ground and occupational forces that can’t establish functional governments. E-banking means financial panics. It’s endearing but flawed.

Keen gelooft dan ook heilig in culturele poortwachters. Hij pleit voor mensen met kennis en smaak, die het kaf van het koren scheiden. Bezoekers van dit symposium. Zij moeten het lef hebben om te zeggen: 'I do know more than you. It doesn't make me go to heaven, but I do know more.'

After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.