At least 20 tools that might help you curate something
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If you enjoyed this article subscribe to my blog. Curation, which is something I do, I think, is gaining steam. The term has caught on in social media networking circles. This is good, and bad. You can find a bounty of articles about why curating will help your brand, but you may not just be interested in curating for your brand. If you are looking for a deeper look into curating, it can be found. I want to build a curation tool, so I am working my way though my backlog of pinboard links about curation. Here I have a list of all the tools I can find that would be considered curation tools.
Consumer / Personal Tools
Stellar
Good question! We’re still figuring that out. Hence the beta/invite business. But at its core, Stellar helps you discover and keep track of your favorite things on the web. If you like dorking around on Twitter or blogs or whatever, you’ll probably enjoy Stellar. For more information and updates, check out my post about Stellar on kottke.org or follow yo_stellar on Twitter.
In my opinion, stellar is leaps, and bounds ahead of all the other tools right now, because it has buy in, and was created by some of the most succesful curaters already on the web. The site is in beta still, and you can tell, it’s slow, but stellar is going to be big. My page is here
Storify
To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story. To make stories using social media.
Bundlr
Bundle & share web content, easily. In practice, Bundlr is quick and easy to use and creates attractive-looking collections. The bookmarklet automatically grabs certain content, such as YouTube videos, meaning that there’s no need for any embed codes.
This tool really does make it easy to bundle things together. They have a good design as well. It try’s it’s best to embed something. Here is an example: http://gobundlr.com/b/conflict-in-burma
Scoop It
Be The Curator of Your Favorite Topic!
Scoop.it is getting a lot of traffic. I am worried thought that they might be a bit of an SEO grab, and less of a help. In RSS feeds they should link directly back to the source, they should make it much easier for a user to find the original article.
Curated By
A growing collection of topics & interests edited, organized and curated by everyone. Follow the topics you are interested in or create and share your own topics with everyone else.
Thoora
We believe that the discovery of great content cannot be accomplished by algorithms alone, but nor can any human make sense of the entire web. Thoora’s secret sauce lies in our unique combination of human and machine. While our patented semantic aggregation engine delivers quality content, we then put you in the driver’s seat, giving you the tools to refine, re-order and prioritize. The result? Human-perfected, living bodies of knowledge that are always fresh and relevant.
This is a tool like scoop.it that allows you to create channels of content that are algorithmically created, as well as hand curated. Here is my channel on curation
Postpost
PostPost search results are filled with super-relevant information from the people you follow on Twitter—the links, photos, news, reviews and insights totally missing from real-time search.
An automated tool that attempts to help you find good stuff in your tweet stream.
Snipi
The smartest way to collect, organize, share and collaborate on your interests by grabbing content from anywhere on the web.
A clipper tool.
trap!t
Trapit is great content, for you. We scour the web on your behalf, 24/7, organizing the best, most relevant content into individual “traps” on your favorite topics and interests for easy consumption. The product is currently in private beta. For press access to the beta, please contact us here.
Another of the automated tools. It will dig through you social network, and try to help find new links.
scrible
scrible transforms the online reading and research experience.
faveous
Faveous collects your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader Youtube & Facebook “likes on links” in one single place. Easy to curate, easy to manage. Gathering your favorite content is now fast and painless.
Not so much a clipper as a way to like things, anything. They should really be running scared of Oink
memonic
The best web clipper in town
Bag The Web
BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a “bag” to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools’ capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic.
A clipper, curated channel hybrid. With a focus on education, and widgets you can embed on your website.
For Pay Professional Services
Eqentia - a vertical news enviroment
Eqentia delivers a range of professional-grade, expertly built, out-of-the-box news environment portals, providing better business intelligence and offering productivity gains to its users.
They have consumer services, but they also seem to cater to larger orgs. Allows you to curate a portal of news like this http://portal.eqentia.com/ .
Feed Magnet
FeedMagnet is a web application that helps brands curate and display social media.
corp, large client. You need to be a larger company and they could help you curate content for your page.
Curata
Curata is content marketing in a box. Curata helps marketers maximize their content curation efforts with web-based tools to easily find, organize and share online content - helping them build thought leadership and grow their qualified leads.
idio
Connect and structure multi-source content, drive intelligent and personalized multi-channel marketing, and deliver actionable customer insight. Deliver the right content to the right customer, at the right time, on the right channel.
One of the more corporate large content publishers.
Flockler
Flockler’s embedded topics allow audience to participate in storytelling directly on your site
It’s like an embedable scoop.it More for brands wanting to create curated channels of content.
Not quite sure
These are sites that I couldn’t figure out. They seem underdeveloped.
yourversion
The best way to discover new content that’s relevant to you YourVersion is the best way to discover the latest stories on the topics you care about, all in one place.
mySyndicaat.com
Newsmastering that works!
sqworl
Sqworl is a web application that provides a clean and simple way to visually bookmark multiple URLs.
KeepStream
Organize your tweets. Whether it’s conference chatter, launch buzz, or a fun conversation… Save those tweets. Organize them. Embed on your website.
Za.pe
Za.pe turns your Twitter account into a complete link curation platform.
in alpha.