Time to focus more on content aggregation than content creation?
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion of the creation of unique content – first through blogs, then through social networks, now through communication networks like Twitter. As content creation expanded we moved from the creation of longer, “thought-through” content pieces to short status updates and quick thoughts and “like’s”. In my opinion, the biggest potential going forward lies in a smarter way of aggregating and filtering all this content, especially on a local level. Sites like Techmeme (for tech news) and outside.in (for local news in the US) have done a pretty good job of aggregating different content sites. Friend feeds help us discover and filter the content generated by our friends. But the real deal would be for me a site that aggregates content, real-time information (like Twitter or status updates) and friends’ content in one place and develops filtering algorithms that bring the most important content and conversations for a certain topic to the top. Anybody working on something like this?
Posted: March 12th, 2009 under News.
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Comment from Kevin on March 12, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Boris, check out Tweetdeck: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
There are many other tools like this built to make better sense of Twitter feeds as well.
Comment from boris on March 12, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Making more sense of tweets is certainly a good start but I still have to go to different sites to get the complete overview
Comment from Anirvan on March 23, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Have you seen PostRank (http://www.postrank.com/)? It’s a piece of the puzzle, and is incredibly helpful when you’re trying to keep up with the gems among an unending stream of content.