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Content Curation: 7 Reasons Why You Must - A Haiku Deck by Martin Smith

Content Curation: 7 Reasons Why You Must - A Haiku Deck by Martin Smith | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.haikudeck.com - December 30, 2014 6:33 AM

Thanks to Haiku Deck for the Honorable Mention for 7 Reasons you Must Content in their list of the year's best decks: ow.ly/Gz09L

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donhornsby's curator insight, December 30, 2014 8:47 AM

(From the article): HOW you say things matters. Go EASY and be FUN. If you are a control freak get someone else to write important pieces of your brand defining content such as: * About Page. * Ambassador Program Call To Action and Explanation page. * Terms (never let lawyers write this critical content). You might think the lawyers thing is strange, but if you let legal speak go on your site you are DEAD and much more DEAD than if you get sued. You are dead because no tribe will form. Without a tribe the web's natural and regular costs are unrecoverable. You MUST create online community or be eaten by the inevitable costs of creating and maintaining a website. You must curate to crate a tribe.
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Future of...Everything Is In The Clouds | via @CloudTweaks

Future of...Everything Is In The Clouds | via @CloudTweaks | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.cloudtweaks.com - January 8, 2014 9:06 AM

Cloud gaming is gaining considerable momentum for a number of reasons and is positioning itself as the future of how games will be played.

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I've been doing a lot of 2-14 trends work over the last few weeks. The major impact the cloud brings seems to be forgotten or left out. I received a dramatic demonstration in how much use of "the cloud" can change website design when we created http://www.curecancerstarter.org.   

We used to limit webpage size to 100K (code + graphics) because to go any larger meant slowing down load times to an unacceptable level. Every half a second we added we lost money, so we were very careful about the size of our pages.

Being careful about the size of our pages meant we had to live in a "lowest common denominator" world where our communication was compromised by environmental constraints. Some restraints remain, but the new caching provided by the cloud creates all kinds of new design headroom that just didn't exist before.

The cloud means we can design cooler, more functional, more engaged sites that feel dynamic and highly personal. The cloud changes all :). M  

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Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight, January 7, 2014 6:03 PM

GaaS despite its funny initials could provide a peek into the future of....well everything. We've already seen a MONSTER TREND toward appification (smaller code updated more frequently) and along comes "cloud gaming".

Benefits of "cloud gaming" include:

* More room on your hard drive (some games can take 14 gigs).
* Games are saved in the cloud so hard drive crash = no worries.

* Better Game Play (thanks to way memory is handled).
* More efficiency will change game development (eventually).

Love this paragraph despite only partially understanding it:

"With recent breakthroughs in hybrid streaming, such as what CiiNOW has done by streaming video and graphics primitives at the same time, it’s much easier to send complex information to mobile devices, tablets and computers at lower bandwidth. Some games are provided through file streaming, a method in which a small percentage of the game is initially installed on a graphics-capable device to allow immediate play.

During play, the remainder of the game continues to download. For movie, TV or less graphic intensive games, video streaming- or video on demand- eliminates the necessity of a game console. Although game consoles or PCs will probably continue to be prevalent, cloud gaming will likely continue to gain popularity as a way to experience new games without having to buy entire game systems."

What I can understand from those points is something we found with CureCancerStarter.org. Use of cloud services allows for "larger" pages to load faster. The impact on web and game design of building in cloud benefits is hard to over estimate.

 
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Top 10 Reasons Amazon Kicks Ecommerce Butt In 2014 & What To STEAL - ScentTrail Marketing

Top 10 Reasons Amazon Kicks Ecommerce Butt In 2014 & What To STEAL - ScentTrail Marketing | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.scenttrail.com - December 30, 2013 4:05 PM

Top 5 Reasons Today (5 more tomorrow)
This post got so good to me I had to break it into two. The top 5 reasons Amazon will be kicking ecommerce butt and taking names next year:

* Content Curation (they are better at riffing, snipping and spinning content than anyone). 
* Understand INFORMATION = more than half the "profit" of an online transaction. 
* Price Arbitrage (no prices is ever static on Amazon). 
* Arbitrage Everything (Amazon will trade anything and everything). 
* Amazon Thinks in web "scale" and that is BIG and BIGGER, Fast and FASTER. 

Don't despair. Yes Amazon will be kicking all of our butts for quite a long time online, but that doesn't mean we can't grab bull by horns and narrow the gap in 2014. Knowing what Amazon is so good at is a great place to figure what you can STEAL. 

Doesn't cost much to CHANGE your thinking and may win the day! 

 

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malek's comment, December 30, 2013 5:13 PM
"mortal combat" in ecommerce, thoughtful.
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Startup Trends 2014 II Including Nest.com's $3.2B Sale To Google via Curatti

Startup Trends 2014 II Including Nest.com's $3.2B Sale To Google via Curatti | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
From curatti.com - January 13, 2014 10:25 PM

Startups are fun, creative & may be our best hope. This second of a two part Curatti series covers startup trends from digital homes to wearable tech.

As I was putting the finishing touches on this second post in a 2 part Startup Trends 2014 for Curatti.com one of our featured Smart Home Startups @Nest sold to Google for $3.2B. Amazing.

More than 25 other cool startups covered some of them will be worth billions too :). M

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Fjord Annual Trends Report 2014

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From www.fjordnet.com - January 6, 2014 5:59 PM
Now in its seventh year, the annual Fjord Trends Report 2014 is launched, unveiling what we believe will transform what we do, our clients’ business and ultimately the way we live.
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Wow, great psychographic / tectonic plate trends report from Fjord. Here are just a few gems from the report (on SlideShare and included behind this link):

* M2M (machine 2 machine) communications increase, as Internet of Things becomes a reality.

* Internet of Things creates an "API Marketplace" to facilitate cool app development for your fridge et al.

* We will learn to talk and listen to objects in 2014 thanks to the Internet of Things. 
* Big is Back with Telco 3.0 on the horizon.

* Expect more Telco M&A next year. 
* Brands must PARTY & relinquish control to the mob and the moment. 
* Brands must become hosts and facilitators creating platforms not websites. 

Great TRENDS and TRENDING report helping me to create my Startups 2014 Trends post for Curatti.com tomorrow.  

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5 Secret & Highly Disruptive Internet Marketing Tactics For 2014 via ScentTrail Marketing

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From scenttrail.blogspot.com - December 16, 2013 12:24 AM

5 Internet Marketing Secrets
Some of these 2014 "secrets" such as ecommerce and social media may not feel very secret, but there is still plenty of "blue ocean" in them still. Ecommerce creates great content marketing support for less and less effort (to create the story) so every website should have a store now even if all they sell is their logo merchandise.


5 Secret IM Tactics For 2014
* Crowdfunding.

* Content Widgets. 
* Mobile First. 

* Ecommerce. 
* Social Media. 

Social media is ubiquitous but not embraced. Our recent Ecommies Study of social media for top online retailers (http://bit.ly/1gATp9p ) proved many have social media accounts but few are "social businesses".

5 Secrets Blog Post on ScentTrail Marketing
http://bit.ly/IYZIo8

5 Secrets Haiku Deck
http://bit.ly/1k6uJFu

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Ken Morrison's comment, December 16, 2013 3:23 AM
Good luck on your 5th Business
malek's curator insight, December 16, 2013 10:09 AM

Interesting is the notion of crowdfunding as a new marketing channel
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