Content Curation World

Robin Good: Featuring the likes of fashion blogger Susie Bubble, filmmaker Gia Coppola, Evan Oresten from Cool Hunting and Carrie Scott of SHOWStudio to Philippe Von Borries (co-founder of Refinery29), Chris Corrado (Director of Capsule), Warren Fu (music video director for artists including Mark Ronson and The Strokes) and Soraya Darabi (founder of Foodspotting), Curators Conference will take place in a few weeks at the Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center in New Yok City.

Here some more details: "...during New York Fashion Week on the 5th September , online channel Portable is presenting The Curators Conference, a day long event featuring the leading international curators and creatives across fashion, film, music, design and technology.

The event aims to, 'explore the many worlds where curation and creativity intersect with modern culture', hoping to inspire audiences and foster industry innovation."

(Source: Prote.in)

From the official site: "A day-long conference featuring the leading curators and creators of culture across fashion, film, music, interiors and design."

Tickets (start at $295): http://curatorsconference.eventbrite.com/

Find out more: http://portable.tv/curatorsconference

Robin Good: Mixtaping.fm is a new free web service which allows anyone to put together their virtual 60-mins virtual music compilations.

Just like in the old music cassette times, compilations are made of two 30-mins sides, and differently than back then, you can throw in just about any song, track or artist that comes to mind, thanks to the integrated music search engine that Mixtaping.fm provides.

Covers can be personalized, and the service let's you see in real-time how much space your using up with each song you add. Final mixtapes can be easily shared on social media or embedded on your site/blog.

Free to use.

Review on TNW: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/28/mixtaping-fm-does-a-good-job-of-reimagining-the-mix-tape-for-the-digital-generation/

Try it out now: http://mixtaping.fm/

Robin Good: Sworly is Pinterest for audio tracks. If there is a music track on YouTube, Sworly will find it and let you pin it.

"Rather than encourage users to create interesting collections of images, Sworly brings the Pinterest approach to sharing music.

After logging in with Facebook (yes there’s annoyingly no other choice) you can start to add songs to Sworly if they haven’t already been added.

...At first glance, the ‘Add song’ feature is a little confusing, but it’s actually quite easy to use. Simply enter the artist name and song you want to share, and Sworly will automatically find the best video for you.

Add optional tags and a description and post it to your profile."

N.B.: There is currently no way to delete a song from your profile.

No collections or playlists (yet).

Full review: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/03/26/sworly-is-pinterest-for-audiophiles-but-this-copycat-has-potential/ 

Try it out: http://sworly.com/ 

(Unearthed by Morten Myrstad)

Robin Good: Music playlists are the best means to support the discovery of music, new and old, and the most effective for any music lover to find and appreciate the very music he likes. Beyond the tradition of artists and stars there is a future of music streams and playlists tailored to very specific tastes, genres and styles.

You do not need to go much far to see that this is in fact already happening. Open iTunes and go within any of the radio sections to realize instantly how niche, curated channels / playlists are the positively the way forward.

While this article on PaidContent utilizes the transition from the album to the playlist as a mere introduction to a set of small complaints about Spotify ability to effectively let users organize their music, I find that this introduction is worth many times the rest of the article.

It may read as obvious stuff, but if you think about it, music curation (playlists created and made navigable in many different ways) are effectively a fantastic, powerful means to let more people discover and enjoy the very music they like the most, with the benefit of all parties involved (artist, listener, curator, middleman/recording company).

From the original article: "The album is dead, long live the playlist – the new primary container unit of music consumption.

iTunes Store’s disaggregation of the album in to its individual parts long ago allowed listeners to reassemble those parts to their own, not artists’, preference.

In fact, there is no more apt an emblem for how our generation can now curate and remix content of all kinds for itself than the music playlist.

...

But is this playlist-centric music universe pre-destined to be the best means of consumption today and going forward?"

I think it is, and nonetheless the author (Robert Andrews) has some respectful complaints about how Spotify lets you save and organize your music, I expect playlist creation and sharing tools to get greater traction as the preferred means to explore organize and make music more accessible to the very people who could appreciate it the most."

Rightful. 7/10

Full article: http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/22/declaring-playlist-bankruptcy-lost-in-a-land-of-infinite-choice/

Robin Good: If you want to listen to the music curated by the world best DJs, your search is over.

TheFuture.fm helps you find the best music, promote the DJs who curate it, and hook up with the artists who created it.

From the official site: "Thefuture.fm is your access to the best music in the world - recorded live at exclusive events in New York, in the nightclubs of Berlin, at festivals in Ibiza, and hand-picked from all over the net. All of this, right here, for free.

...there’s too much of everything on the net.

We believe that curation is the answer.

...

We want to give you the most professional DJs; DJs that not only play at the most exclusive events, the best clubs and the biggest festivals around the world, but also up and coming producers scouted from all over the net.

... you learn what songs you’re listening to, and buy them if you love them."

Try it out now: http://www.thefuture.fm