These are the slides that accompanied Oliver Starr's presentation at FutureMidwest 2011, Curation, the Third Frontier of the Web. Please contact @owstarr for more information and additional notes.
4. Three Functional
Aspects of the Web
1. Allow anyone to view any published document
2. Allow anyone to publish any type of document
3. Allow anyone to organize the collection of documents
5. Three Functional
Aspects of the Web
1. Allow anyone to view any published document
Uniform Resource Locator / URL (originally called UDI)
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol / HTTP
Hyper Text Markup Language / HTML
6. Three Functional
Aspects of the Web
2. Allow anyone to publish any type of document
7. “I wanted to lower the
bar to publishing about
as far as it could go.”
Ev Williams, Twitter Co-Founder
8. Three Functional
Aspects of the Web
3. Allow anyone to organize the collection of documents
29. ”Plus, we want to curate our lives and
now that more and more of you will be
pouring your lives into Twitter and
Facebook you'll want to save some of
those moments in a more permanent,
and curated, way.
It's a billion dollar opportunity just
sitting out there. Anyone working on
this?”
Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com
30. “In short, curation is the new search.
It's also the old search. And it's
happening again, and again”
Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed
31. “The next big trend will be curation.”
Yuri Milner, Digital Sky Technologies
35. I’m looking for something I know exactly what I’m
fun/Interesting looking for
Curated Content
Serendipitous Discovery Targeted Search
Highly Random Sweet Spot for Research Highly Specific
Based upon Patrice Lamothe’s Post “The Web’s Third Frontier” which originally appeared on his blog Cratyle.net (http://www.cratyle.net/en/2010/03/11/the-webs-third-frontier/)\n
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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the technologies that spawned the modern internet.\n
Tim’s vision for the Web\n
What he created and how this resulted in Web 1.0\n
The technologies that democratized published and resulted in Web 2.0\n
The technologies that are democratizing curation and which will ultimately result in Web 3.0\n
Just what is curation? \n
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YouTube Exhibit Displayed on Exterior of Guggenheim in NYC: www.allartnews.com/after-23358-submissions-mediums-collide-at-youtubes-guggenheim-exhibit/\n
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The curation process: aggregate items into a collection, make choices about which items from a collection you wish to exhibit, use discernment to make those choice.\n\nIn this case you might have asked yourself, what impression do I wish to make, who will see me, how do I want to be perceived, what is the context of my presentation, etc.\n
Almost everyone. (of course there’s no accounting for taste)\n
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Which is why we’re now dealing with Friend Requests from our Grand Parents\n
Three Principal Reasons\n
Not sure if it’s been so visible way out here in the midwest, but in Silicon Valley curation has been the buzzword of 2011 - so far.\n\nRecommended Reading: Curation Nation by Steven Rosenbaum\n
Over the past 12 months almost a dozen startups that focus on some aspect of curation have launched. Pearltrees, Storify, Paper.li, Curated.by, YourVersion, BagTheWeb, KeepStream, and even Quora\n
Real time news curation \nOrganizing the web via questions and answers\nGiving you the best “deep dive” experience\nBuilding a true interest graph\n
Andrew Carvin’s Tunisian “Storify”: www.storify.com/acarvin/sidi-bou-zid-a-jasmine-revolution-in-tunisia\n\nOliver Ding’s BagTheWeb’s curation of stories about Andrew Carvin’s work: www.bagtheweb.com/b/HliqR3 \n\nAnd a Pearltree that gives you a full overview of the events themselves: http://pear.ly/Ia0v \n
Investments:\nQuora - $11 Million at $86 million pre\nPearltrees -- 3.8 million Euro\nStorify -- $2 million from Khosla Ventures\n
homogenization of our community from professional to early adopter segment of pyramid\n
Where does Curation fit into today’s web and your workflow?\n
Curated content sits between random / serendipitous discovery and highly targeted search. It is most useful when you know what topic you want to study but don’t know what it is you want or need to know about the topic.\n
It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
it is the third natural phase of the web based upon Tim Berner Lee’s underpinning concepts\n
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It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
Know which tool to use for which kind of curation. they are not one size fits all. find the ones that work best for you for each type of curation you are doing:\n\nReal time news\nTopic\nOpinion\nArchiving\nSearch\n
Use curation as another part of your bigger social media efforts to engage your community and crowd-source even better, deeper, more nuanced content from your fans and the biggest experts on the topics your company (or you) care about most\n