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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion.

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Top 5 Great Apps in 2010 - Great Companies in 2011?

Seeing Both Sides

Beautiful graphics and layout characterize this app, but what makes it brilliant in my opinion is they way it turns Twitter and Facebook into curated content channels. But I am also interested in reading the articles my friends are linking to in their tweets and posts - they are also relevant editors and curators for my interests.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. Enter Facebook.

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Changing my mind about blogging

This is going to be BIG.

When I started in early 2004, very few people were blogging--and then I watched blogging take off. Sure, you could be a curator like Laughing Squid or Swiss Miss , but it''s still up to you to find all these great sources. I gave her the following reasons: When you come up with a structure that isn''t just writing, curation is easier.

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Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach

Duct Tape Marketing

I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. But, using Instagram I can take a photo, tag the location and then write as little or much as I want and share it out to all other channels. There was no real community.