Dashboard Everything Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Entrepreneur While the year of the protester has just passed, 2012 looks to be the year of the entrepreneur. Jobs are in scarce supply, and underemployment is at an all-time high. Things look bleak. But, truth be told, there has never been a better time for individuals to start new businesses. (MORE: 5 Tricks to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick) Consider some of the resources at the ready for 2012-preneurs. Whereas a traditional office or retail space was a necessity less than a decade ago, today, thanks to the rise of virtual office services and co-working spaces, working from home or Starbucks is the new norm. (MORE: Retiring This Year? From Startup Peru to Startup America, hundreds of private/public partnerships and programs have been created around the world to incentivize and support future job creators. Much like the protesters of 2011, collective entrepreneurial action in 2012 has the real power to change the world.
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4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. Scoop.it is often described as Tumblr without the blog. 3. 4.
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Group's Social Startups To Watch in 2012 | Meltwater Blog 2011 is coming to a close and we’re reflecting back on the year. We’ve witnessed a huge explosion in social sites and we’re highlighting some of the best. While tech, social media and social networking are some of the hardest industries to predict, with their rapid changes, failures, merging and selling, we’re still interested in seeing what some of our favorite social startups will do in 2012. So, in no particular order, our top social startups to watch in 2012: Tumblr : This isn’t a blogging site, it’s a sharing site. Spotify : Finally made legal in the U.S. just a few months ago, Spotify has been a massive international sensation. TurnTable.fm : A social site allowing users to listen to digital music together, simulating a concert or club experience is a no-brainer. Pinterest : You’re browsing the Internet and sharing the things you love with friends. TaskRabbit : A site that allows you to put a price on your personal tasks and pay “friendly, reliable people” to do them.