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Media: What's Past is Prologue

aweissman.com

If we strip out distribution, promotion and marketing as core competencies, the role of the media company might be, quite simply: curated products chosen by a small group of people who just have better taste than everyone else. In other words, look backwards, not forwards. In other words, users need to rely on someone or something for taste.

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Small Business and Startup Tips: Cool Stuff for Your Next Trip

crowdSPRING Blog

I really like Yahoo’s weather app – it’s a super simple interface, clean and usable and it displays beautifully curated photos of your location (from Flickr , of course). Make sure your phone is packing a good weather app that allows you to see the local forecast for whatever city you’re in or the next one on your schedule.

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Your social media obsession won’t make an enduring mark on the world

The Next Web

His career began in 1992 when he worked in the financial market at Banco Nacional in Brazil. But unlike books, which are methodically categorized and stored within libraries, Facebook posts and tweets will not be curated and probably cannot be curate to that extent. Claudio Gandelman is the CEO and founder of Teckler.