[box]• This essay was featured as a guest post on ReadWrite on August 5th, 2015.[/box] The search giant humanized the Web. Now it needs to do it again. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but when it launched its search engine, it wound up doing more than […]
[box]• Think Advisor featured these results in their article Are You a Contrarian or Part of the Herd? on May 5th, 2015.[/box] It’s no secret that many investors think alike. When they do, we say they have a “herd mentality”; when they don’t, we call them “contrarians”. And it’s usually speculation as […]
[box]• This analysis was featured as a guest post on VentureBeat on July 8th, 2014. • Click here to listen to Dan Gummel’s narration of this article, courtesy of VentureBeat.[/box] The Songza team will do great things for Google—but it won’t be because of curation. Google recently acquired Songza for what […]
Square, the mobile payments company, has a new online marketplace for small businesses. This Holiday Season, they sponsored a competition for the most creative and diverse curated “wish list” of products. The prize: $1,000 worth of items from your list. Fortunately, mine was a top ten winner. I’m passionate about […]
[box]• The Independent published the 1st of these data visualizations in the article Invasion of the algorithms: The modern-day equations which can rule our lives on March 9, 2015[/box] Big data and art don’t usually go together. Until now that is. Here at Curalytics, we’ve teamed up with Curiator, an […]
Caption: The filter scalability diagram plots the four content filters across the dimensions of objectivity and subjectivity and simplicity and complexity. The curating filter, both complex and subjective, is at the highest risk of overload. [box]Curation fundamentally needs a technology that connects people with people, not people with machines.[/box] The […]
cu·ra·tion (kyəˈrāshən) The subjective selection, categorization, and arrangement of content. There are a vast variety of definitions of content curation on the web. Heidi Cohen aggregated 19 different definitions on her blog alone. Part of the cause behind such variety is the inadequate definition offered by Websters Dictionary: “past part. of curare to […]
“In short, curation looks to provide customers with the best possible products instead of the most products possible.” The Motley Fool just wrote a great piece on curation entitled The Future of Retail is Curation. The article starts by observing that while, for example, the Amazon star rating system helped […]
Overview Organization starts in the mind. When we develop a sense of order in our minds and apply it to the world, we organize. Interestingly, our sense of order has predictable attributes. The first pair of attributes describes perspective, which can be subjective or objective. The second pair of attributes […]
Summary More content is produced every day than a person can consume in a lifetime. It would take the average music listener 59 years to listen to all new professional music sold in a year, and the average reader 247 years to read all new books in a year. The […]
