Personal internet radio service 8tracks relaunches website with new DJ tools
One percent of 8tracks’ eight million monthly users curate their own playlists on the service. Now, 8tracks wants to make it easier to pair these DJs with listeners.
Politics and personalization have more in common than you think
New research suggests that a phenomenon called biased assimilation makes people view new, inconclusive evidence in ways that support existing biases, leading to increased polarization on topics such as politics or even what we read online.
Yahoo purchases content pinning site Snip.it
Yahoo has acquired content pinning and curation site Snip.it. The site lets users “snip,” save and share articles or excerpts from around the web in a graphical interface and fits with Yahoo’s goal of acquiring small companies and focusing on content.
Techstars-backed Pickie raises $1M for Flipboard-like app for shopping
Pickie, a recent graduate of TechStars New York, announced Monday that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from a range of investors, including DFJ Gotham, Betaworks and Liberty City Ventures. The startup uses social data regarding products to generate personalized iPad-based magazines for shopping.
Blekko’s new social content curation site ROCKZi turns search inside out
Blekko, the human-curated search engine, on Thursday unveiled a new content curation site, ROCKzi, which lets people consume and socialize around the news they care about in a PInterest-like environment.
Use content curation to keep your team on the same page
Web content curation is nothing new. What is new, however, is that there are a growing number of tools that allow you to do your own curation for your own purposes. How can curation help keep your remote team on the same page?
Bit.ly Bundles Now Allow Hyper Personalized Wikis
Bit.ly, the URL link-shortener, took a turn last month into content curation with Bundles, its tool for packaging and preserving multiple links. Today the company is opening up the tool for collaboration among users, allowing people to share and create collections of relevant information.