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A new wave of sites based on topic curation, both human and algorithmic, are creating opportunities to reach targeted audiences. Via Robin Good 
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Robin Good: Adam Vincenzini on TheNextWeb has put together a nice and useful list of the 30 dedicated search engines that you can use to explore and research specific content areas.
From blogs to video and forums, here is a good list of search engine tools from where you can start your own research.
Helpful. 7/10
Full list: http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/04/29/30-specialist-and-super-smart-search-engines/ ; Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Robin Good, Sheila Fredericks
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 8:42 PM
Great list and useful alternatives to Google search. |
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Robin Good: If you have an iPad and you are looking for a better way to find, discover, browse, search and consume news stories, the new Rockmelt browser for iPads is definitely worth a road test.
Unlike other popular browsers, "rather than showing you a big, empty window--or just whatever site you were looking at the last time you used it--Rockmelt offers up a visual stream of personalized content, culled from friends on Facebook and Twitter, RSS subscriptions, and sites that fall into your designated categories of interest. Posts, articles, images, and the rest take the form of big, tappable tiles in two endless columns--an infinitely scrolling stream of content. Touch one of the items, and, when possible, it pops open in a stripped-down reader view. As you’re checking out that content, you can jump to a full view of the website it’s hosted on, follow links, or just dip back to your stream to find something else to look at."
"Overall, it’s a fairly radical take on what a tablet browser should be, one that starts with the go-anywhere, find-anything utility of the browsers we’re familiar with and grafts a visual, content-curation element on top of it all. In this sense, the new Rockmelt is sort of like a mash-up of Pulse, Flipboard, and Safari--a browser that’s also a news reader, with a dash of social network to round it out."
Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670978/a-tablet-web-browser-that-finds-the-good-stuff-for-you#1
FAQ/Help: http://help.rockmelt.com/
Find out more: http://www.rockmelt.com/
Available for free on the App Store: http://me.lt/31MYu
Via Robin Good
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Anthony Kosner on Content.ly analyzes three different news discovery services in order to illustrate the different types of approaches available today to gather and filter streams for a specific audience.
He takes as examples Fuego, Upworthy and Prismatic, which utilize three very different solutions to aggregating and filtering the news in order to provide a relevant stream to their readers.
Overall, the article tries to illustrate how different can be the approaches utilized to filter and suggest content to a specific audience.
Interesting. Informative. 6/10
Full article: http://contently.com/blog/2013/04/29/the-evolution-of-curation-puts-tools-in-marketers-hands/
There can be filter bubbles (blind spots), and THEN there's just plain getting the best on a topic using the best tools. Content curation and Robin Good's insights help. ~ D
well, well... ouvaton :-))