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Why Google's shutdown of Google Reader is actually a good thing for the internet

Like most of you out there, nerdy enough to get this page, and actually read this article because you care about that Google is shutting down it's Google Reader application, I was quite surprised when I learned that Google would make this move, and on a relatively short notice like this one.

Improving the quality and appeal of Curation, collaborative curation to improve curation's effectiveness?

A few months ago Chope Murray wrote an interesting article about what he identifies as "... the intermediary and often principle connecting service between the authors and readers of content.", curation. This statement comes from the 3 C's theory, Creation, Curation, Consumtion, which is a simple way to analyze the complexity of a very complex phenomenon.

Only 36% of Tweets are noted as interesting by users. 2013, the year of the filters or the year of curation?

Nieman Journalism Lab just published an incredibly useful and insightful list of 10 academic research papers related to social media's current state and evolution. These papers give a tremendous insight for anyone, like us, working in the race to make social media more useful and accessible to all.

I decided to take the downtime of the holidays to write a series of blog posts about these research papers, to share my ideas and interpretation about these.

Top 2012 twitter accounts for renewable energy and climate change topics

A little expertiment we've been running at Faveeo to finetune our new Twitter analytics feature soon to be released! In this list, find the most interesting account related to the renewable energy and climate change topics.

Let us know in the comments what you think about this list!

TreeHugger

spotHunter

ecomagination

BBCNews

GreenNewsDaily

ENERGY

NRDC

EcoEvaluator

REWorld

ClimateGroup

GreenCogEU

USRealityCheck

arikring

Revkin

newsenergy

bidurenergy

EU_Commission

Interesting experiment, automatically discover the most interesting / relevant twitter accounts related to Drupal

We've been playing in the last weeks with a new "social map" feature to be included in the release of faveeo (www.indiegogo.com/faveeo). Since our frontend is build mostly using Drupal, we wanted to test our new scripts using the topic Drupal, to see if the list of influential and interesting users would fit. We're quite happy with the results!!

Let us know what you think of this list in the comments.

List of top Drupal-related twitter accounts, as suggested by our twitter analytics tool.

Dries

drupalcentral

The most interesting / influent twitter users about : curation

Lately the Faveeo team has been experimenting with the Twitter API and other sources to pull out lists of interesting and influential users on specific topics. The idea, is to integrate this in our Faveeo application alongside the "concept map".

This new Social Map, will have plenty of uses, for example being able to find important / relevant accounts to follow according to a specific topic, but also find twitter users to engage with in the process of a social media marketing / outreach campaign.

Next step in the future of curation : better Information Discovery and Content Analytics systems scale up curation activities

If you're reading this, you know how important the concept of online -and social- curation is today.

You also know that the more curation becomes important and mainstream, the harder it will be for curators to actually differenciate themselves from the mass of other curators in the same field.

As you know, what makes a good curator is not only the quality of the comments he/she adds to the curated and published content, but also the quality of the actual curated content in itself.

It's time to move from user-centered social networks to content-centered networks to speed up information discovery?

One of the questions I've been asking myself for several years now, is how come the social web is not more social than it is now? I mean it seems downright anachronic to me that we're still trying to mimic real life social networks on the internet today.

See, I need to browse around to see if there are people that seem interesting, this takes a lot of time.

Can Enterprise Social Curation tools replace the classic Knowledge Management platforms?

In the enterprise world, Knowledge Management is at the center of communications, especially in larger organizations.

The central Knowledge Management system is at the heart of the company's knowledge and information "history" and this combined information and knowledge is mainly what makes it possible for an organization to become greater than the sum of it's parts, current or past.

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