Inside Top TellMe Engineer's New Startup SnipIt What do you do after you travel across the world to help build a big enterprise, tech-heavy, company that gets acquired by Microsoft for $800 million? If you're Egyptian former TellMe senior engineer Ramy Adeeb, apparently you start a new social bookmarking service. Social bookmarking or curation is a long-saturated market, but the New Delicious and several other companies are making a big go at it again. Someday, somebody is going to nail it. Probably more than one somebody. Adeeb's new startup Snip.it is a service aimed at that market. Ramy Adeeb was a teenage tech prodigy in Egypt in the 1990's, then came to Harvard to study Computer Science. He stayed at Microsoft for less than a year, then got an MBA from Stanford and then joined leading Venture Capital firm Khosla Ventures as a Principal. Snip.it is all about saving collections of links: for yourself or to share with others.
Facebook veut rémunérer ses membres pour visualiser des vidéos publicitaires La semaine dernière, Facebook a lancé un nouveau programme offrant à ses membres une rémunération en échange de la visualisation de publicité vidéo. Celle-ci prend la forme de crédits Facebook qui pourront être ensuite échanger contre des bons plans biens réel… Arrivé en début d’année dans notre pays, Facebook Bons Plans, concurrent de Groupon, a encore du mal à décoller chez nous. En moyenne, l’utilisateur est rémunéré 0.10$ par vidéo vue. En rémunérant ainsi à la visualisation, Facebook souhaite améliorer le taux de clic de ses bannières qui pour l’instant souffrent de performances peu élevées. Qu’en pensez vous ? Source : Mashable.
News curation: finally, social media's killer app? FORTUNE -- Even the most casual social network user will admit that the Facebook or Twitter experience can be overwhelming -- that merciless stream of status updates and shared content, which sometimes feels less like a stream and more like a deluge, waits for no man, woman, or Web crawler. Of course, there's good reason to feel that way: Facebookers share 30-billion plus pieces of information each month, and Twitter users output 1 billion tweets weekly. There's a tremendous amount of digital information floating around and few great solutions for filtering it, making sense of it, and consuming it. That's changing. Nicholas Negroponte foreshadowed the current state of things back in 1995 with the "Daily Me," a customized news experience, but it's only been over the last 18 months that his idea has manifested itself via mainstream products and services. They all work differently. That same concept is at the core of the Twitter-focused start-up Sulia. More from Fortune:
pearltrees + spotify Encore répété mardi à geek chic et hier soir à mes amis de creads , pearltrees ça poutre. Après avoir fixé un bug sur pearl an URL ce matin, vous êtes maintenant capable de créer des cartes dans spotify . “ The URL is the new MP3 ” peut on lire en bas de page sur leur site… Concept intéressant Parcourez une playlist avec une logique d’exploration Découvrez de nouveaux univers musicaux Ecoutez de la musique en instantané: pas de loading Partagez vos perles spotify et éditez vos propres parcours Voici une toute première carte qui va très vite s’agrandir: mon univers musical . Petit tips de déplacement dans le player: j’ai mis pas mal de branches alors si la musique vous plait moins: retour en arrière et plongeons dans une nouvelle branche Ceci dit il y a encore des améliorations à faire à la fois côté pearltrees et côté spotify: Auto-play: pour enchainer les perles dans le player pearltrees. Laisser spotify minimisé quand on change de morceau. Avoir le titre de la chanson dans la page web. share
The Three C's of Information Commerce: Consumption, Curation, Creation Brian Solis inShare180 Over the years, social networks have lured us from the confines of our existing realities into a new genre of digital domains that not only captivated us, but fostered the creation of new realities. As George Bernard Shaw observed, “Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” Such is true for social networks and the digital persona and resulting experiences we create and cultivate. It was the beginning of the shift in behavior toward an era of digital extroversion, self-defined by varying degrees of sharing, connections, and engagement. On Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, et al., we were attracted by the promise of reigniting forgotten relationships and enamored by the sparking of new connections. With each new connection we wove, we were compelled to share details about ourselves that we might not have divulged in real life. Our concerns of privacy or the lack thereof, now require education. The Social Genome The 3C’s, Consumption, Creation, and Curation
Why Content Curation Is Here To Stay | brandpilgrim In a labyrinth of content, consumers have always looked to opinion leaders who could edit content for them and direct them towards relevant information. Oprah‘s book club moved masses of people towards her recommended list of books and authors. The web is facing the very same crisis today. A plethora of information that is strenuous to navigate through, we rely on peers and opinion leaders to direct us to safe ports, where we can find the supplies that we seek. In every market research that I have conducted, recommendation by peers is the single largest influencing factor. These would be relatives, neighbours, colleagues, even the odd celebrity endorser. I believe the definition of ‘peer’ has changed drastically. This is the environment that has made space for the Content Curator. Conventionally, a search would be performed in a search engine like Google. On the other hand, a content curator collects the best of information and showcases it at a single place.
Dans le Social Business, le bisounours c’est peut-être l’entreprise ! par Bertrand Duperrin Résumé : Que ce soit en interne avec ses collaborateurs ou en externe avec ses clients, un des piliers des projets “sociaux” ou “2.0″ de l’entreprise est le besoin des collaborateurs et clients pour davantage de proximité voire d’intimité avec elle et entre eux. Ce qu’on traduit en termes d’engagement et, bien sur de communautés. Mais ce ressort est il si pertinent ? Il semble que, si communauté il doit y avoir, entreprises et clients ne se comprennent pas sur le rôle que chacun doit y tenir, voire sur la légitimité de la présence des premières dans le dispositif. Idem chez les collaborateurs qui semblent manifester davantage de désir pour des outils de travail efficaces que pour ces dispositifs de rapprochement voire de fraternisation. Au final, les plus pragmatiques et réalistes semblent être non pas les organisations mais les individus. On aurait pu croire que l’entreprise, rationnelle et froide, aller camper sur ses positions…mais il n’en est rien. Retrouvez moi :
MediaWatch: Curation and Verification In Journalism - New Methods In News Gathering Posted by Tom Foremski - May 23, 2011 Last week I wrote about the Oriella survey of journalists that found that the majority do not use social media or blogs for verifying and sourcing stories. [Oriella Survey: Most Journalists Shun Social Media And Blogs - SVW] No one is asking journalists to throw away the tried and true ways of researching and verifying stories but to add new skills that will improve their reporting. How to source a video A great example of how journalists can verify social media sources and put together different types of content comes from journalist Mark Little, one of the founders of Storyful, a site that offers curation tools and a publishing platform. Mr Little has written an excellent post that draws on his 20 years experience as a reporter and he explains how he approaches the tricky issue of verification. Without a doubt, verification is the greatest challenge. This is a common sense approach to verifying content from sources that you don't know.
pearltrees > blog How much is a tweet worth? About 1/10,000 as much as a Yelp review Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies. For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in revenue. Just how much value do you represent to these companies? Path: $12.50 per userInstagram: $18.52Yelp: $21.21Pinterest: $28.09Foursquare: $40.00Twitter: $71.43Dropbox: $80.00LinkedIn: $104.46Facebook: $118.34 But it’s the value of each individual status update that’s especially interesting. Tweet: $0.001Facebook share: $0.024LinkedIn search: $0.124FourSquare check-in: $0.40Path update: $0.50Yelp review: $9.13 I don’t know about you, but it’s hard for me to imagine that a simple FourSquare check-in is worth 40 cents — or that there are any Yelp reviews at all that would be worth nearly $10. If you want a bigger, clearer PDF of this infographic, we’ve got that for you too. Infographic courtesy Backupify
Google Says That Employees Change Search Rankings Posted by Tom Foremski - July 13, 2010 Richard Waters in an article at FT.com (Subscription required): Groups magnify chances of Google hits Companies with a high page rank are in a strong position to move into new markets. I've known about this for several years but wasn't able to get anyone from Google on the record. This admission is potentially a very large problem for Google because it has maintained that its index rankings are unbiased and are computed from a natural pecking order derived from how other sites find a specific site important. The Google algorithm is a mathematical expression drawing on the PageRank patented method (named after Larry Page, co-founder). Google is currently being sued by several companies claiming bias in Google results. Scott Cleland, whose blog "The Precursor" has been critical of Google, writes: He says that antitrust authorities are bound to ask key questions such as: It's a huge can of worms.
Boiko: Today Information Management is in the Conversation Age #jboye11 Amidst the near deafening roar of chirping and tweeting, to say that we're living in the age of the conversation might seem obvious. However, when information scientists, like Bob Boiko take the line, it's generally worth a listen. Here at the J. Information Has Value. Here's the premise underlying Boiko's approach to information strategy: If we deliver the right information to the right people in the right way, it will help us meed our goals. Who can argue with that? Bob went on to associate content strategy with web strategy, which raised a few hackles. Definitions aside, his real point was to get to the social aspect of modern business and assert that when it comes to social media — unlike with content strategy and information strategy — there's a lot less strategy and a lot more knee-jerking going on. Paradigm Shift: This is Not a 140 Character Book Thanks to social media, we have gone beyond thinking of information from the perspective of a book. The Elements and Types of Conversation