Google is reportedly developing a reading app for tablet devices that will compete with popular apps such as Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, AOL's Editions and Yahoo's Livestand. The app is reportedly called “Propellor” and being developed for both Android and the iPad. Robert Scoble, who...
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Klout is releasing a new series of topics pages that will highlight who are the most influential people online, based on their Klout social influence scores, across scores of topics. If this catches on, it could be an important tool for people to find experts who are influential about various...
Keep reading » Wikipedia is remarkably good at curating and summarizing breaking news — especially how fast it does so. And increasingly people turn to it as one of their first sources, because it offers a good overview, with context. So it’s great to see a new project launching that will examine how...
Keep reading » Tumblr is a great tool for news curation. ShortFormBlog, which curates about 30 news stories a day using visual storytelling, is one example being done particularly well. The blog, which can be found at shortformblog.tumblr.com, is produced by a graphic designer at The Washington Post, Ernie Smith,...
Keep reading » By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wired devices, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). ”Forget what we have taken for granted on how consumers use the Internet,” said Karsten Weide,...
Keep reading » Social media now accounts for nearly a quarter of total time spent on the Internet, far surpassing email, which was once by far the number one use of the Internet. Social media use is also shifting significantly to mobile — nearly 40 percent of social media users access social media content...
Keep reading » It’s interesting and a bit surprising to hear the CEO of one of the more innovative iPad reading apps, Flipboard, say the Web will evolve toward being more similar, rather than less similar, to print. "The web will feel a lot different in 5 years. It will feel a lot like print and be...
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