Content Curation World

Nancy Messieh on MakeUseOf has a good introductory article for those interested in find out more about personal content sharing and content curation. 

If you are new to these topics and are wondering what picking out good content and sharing it with others truly involves, this article showcases four different approaches and seven tools that can be used to get your feet wet.

From RSS to link bundles, Storify, Clipboard, Annotary, Pinterest and Scoop.it this is a very basic but nonetheless useful introduction to these approaches and tools.

Informative. 6/10

Full article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/curation/

If you re looking for examples of content curation platforms outside of the popular ones, you may want to give a look to what appears to be the most popular curation platform in Japan: Naver Matome.

From what I gather and can see, this is something very similar to Tumblr, providing an intuitive publishing platform supported by easy-to-use features to easily grab, capture, credit and republish most any kind of content or social stream.

"Naver Matome is a very simple curation platform that launched back in July of 2009. To date it has accumulated over 41 million users and over 1.2 billion page views per month. The platform is now operated by NHN Japan (perhaps best known as the company behind the Line chat app) after a merger with Naver in November of 2011.

On the site, users are able to create pages that bundle images, links, and videos under a topic of their choice, ranging from dieting, to politics, to web services.

There are many reasons behind the platform’s sucess including its friendly user interface, the wide genre of topics curated, compatibility with different social networks (especially Twitter), and strong SEO for both Yahoo and Google with 70% of its traffic coming from the two search engines."

Source: http://www.startup-dating.com/2013/03/navermatome-curation