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With the amount of information online, it often becomes hard to cut through all the noise and get straight to the stuff that you're interested in. If you want to generate relevant content online and find a way to cut through that noise - and make sure people find what you're sharing - there's no better way to do that than with content curation or aggregation. There are several ways you can go about this.
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You've probably signed up for a handful of different social networks over the years. Despite keeping these networks separate in your own head, the everyday browsing habits of internet users usually involve one main browser set-up, often with a bunch of extensions. But who wants to have a different extension for each social network you want to share to? Not me! Not when there's a way of sharing to all your networks using the one extension, Shareaholic.
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Digg was such a huge hit that content creators actively tried to get their material linked to on the site in order to experience the huge increase in traffic, known as the Digg effect, that resulted. At this point in the story all was well. By 2010 traffic had started to drop off. Betaworks finally bought Digg for a reported $500,000 earlier this year, and the company has set about trying to relaunch the site as a new, contemporary social media site.
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Have you ever wanted to find that one link you posted on Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn, but couldn’t seem to find it anywhere?! It’s frustrating. You might say "well, bookmark it!" And that’s good advice. But the thing is that we often think of that later. After reading an article, you might bookmark it, but you may also just share it to a social network. So, how do you find it? Delicious.
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Here at MakeUseOf, we are serious Reddit fans. Just recently Joel published 5 Free Apps That Will Improve Your Portable Reddit Experience, a roundup that included the excellent BaconReader and several other great Reddit apps. But one interesting Reddit app Joel’s roundup did not include is Reddionic, an interesting new Reddit client.
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Often, I come across websites that re-publish or link to my articles here on MakeUseOf. This is how I discovered Scoop.it! Scoop.it! is a curation platform that enable users to collect news, articles, and other sources found on the net, and share them on a custom-themed Scoop.it! site. It's like bookmarking articles on Delicious, but with a more visual and online magazine-like format.
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Lately, I’ve been exploring Pinterest for all its possible applications. After telling you about 5 useful Pinterest tools, I still wasn’t sure what to do on Pinterest. After the first wave of ideas was done, I couldn’t find things I truly wanted to pin no matter how hard I tried. It was around this time that I heard about Pinstamatic. Despite the somewhat unfortunate name, Pinstamatic offers a solution for anyone who is looking for something more out of Pinterest.
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Ever since the fall of Digg back in 2010, I’ve been an avid member of Reddit. And by “avid member,” I totally mean “lurker.” I browse it on a daily basis, consuming its user-generated content like a baby eats Gerber. Do you not know what Reddit is? Have no fear. But for those of you who are already Redditors and want to browse it while on-the-go, then this article’s for you.
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Chill.com has gone for a complete makeover and adopted the Pinterest look. It’s no longer the Turntable.fm for videos, but "Pinterest" for videos. You still have videos from the above mentioned sites. But watching and sharing them is closer to the way of Pinterest. So, is it just another Pinterest copy-cat or is there more substance to the video discovery site?
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Are you aware of just how Pinterest can change the current landscape of the Internet? Traditional social bookmarking services such as Digg and the dominant method of sharing links, Twitter, are both at risk from the polished presentation and simple features of Pinterest. In fact, Twitter could be seriously at risk from this new service.
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Every society and/or community has their own unwritten rules of proper etiquette, courtesy, and communication. Granted, I'm not going to say every set of rules is perfect, but I will say that they do exist. As a matter of fact, the social sharing site Reddit has its own set of said rules (in addition to its official rules that do exist). Today, I've got only six of the billion unwritten rules that exist on Reddit.
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Reddit is more than just a time sink where you can look at pretty girls, read about nerdy stuff, and procrastinate as you build a memory of random trivia. Reddit can be used to learn things, believe it or not. Here, we are going to point you to the subreddits where you can go to acquire brain power. Let's get smarter.
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We've covered Reddit quite a few times here on MakeUseOf with articles that explain how it works and what you should be reading on it. However, since it's a constantly updating site, it seems like the only way to stay on top of things is by F5-ing every other second. But really, who would want to do that? Fortunately, Erqqvg has created a nifty little real-time visual Reddit updater.
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Since its surge in popularity in 2006, Reddit has truly become the epicenter of social news and information. We're in an age where the newspaper is gradually inching towards extinction as more and more people are turning towards RSS feeds and social media. Reddit is a community that is completely powered by their users and that's why it is such a success today.
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There are times when you know you want to put together a collection of photos, articles, tweets, videos and snippets of things from around the web. Maybe you're brainstorming for an article you're going to write, following some breaking news, planning a holiday, collecting reasons to support your fundraising cause, or maybe you're just redecorating your house and need to collect inspiration ideas.
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