At Scoop.it we aim to empower you, dear users, to be the curator of your favorite topics. ”Noble ambition”, we’ve heard, “but what does it mean to be a good curator?”
We’ve seen you do great things with Scoop.it features: here are some of the best practices we found!
The past 2 months since Scoop.it went live have been so hectic and exciting that we haven’t had a chance to introduce the team that works behind the scene. Delivering one release per week on average and dealing with the great feedback we received from the fast-growing Scoop.it community has taken 200% of our attention.
We won’t take any break so keep up sending it to us! We love feedback!
But as we expand the team today with Axelle joining us in San Francisco, we felt it was high time you got to know a bit about us.
Read MoreThis post has been written by Guillaume Decugis, Scoop.it’s CEO, and has been published on Business Insider
A little more than a year ago, Wired Magazine published a story on Demand Media describing in details how what’s now being called Content Farms worked. It looked brilliant. No more articles produced in the vague by journalists with no idea of who would be interested in reading them. Demand Media had it all figured out: analyze Google and you’ll not only know what people are interested in reading about, but also in what companies are interested in advertising about.
But Demand Media and Content Farms didn’t stop here. They’ve pushed further the industrial rationalization of the media business: now that you know what content to produce, get it done fast and cheap by starving freelancers. And recruit SEO Top Guns to make sure your sites rank first in Google. No need for quality content produced by well-paid journalists: if you know how to perform search engine optimization, your low quality, rapidly-produced video or “article” will top Google’s results and dwarf playing-by-the-book regular media’s traffic.
If you pushed the model further, it was like imagining the future of media being a content factory (Demand Media and the likes), distributed by a search algorithm (Google Search) and monetized by an advertising factory (Google AdSense).
The Matrix.
And it might actually happen…
What’s interesting to me is that it might not. For a number of reasons and trends we start to see emerge.
Read MoreWe’ve been in private beta since a little more than 2 months now, and we’re happy to have been covered by several blogs. It seems the “curation topic” is getting hotter and hotter, and we’re definitely part of it.
We want to thank all the bloggers who have written about us, and of course, all our first users for the huge amount of feedback they’ve sent us. We’ve already shared the video we had about us, but here is a longer list of blogposts:
Articles about Scoop.it in English
Articles about Curation where Scoop.it has been spotted
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There’s a button in Scoop it that you cannot miss: the Bookmarklet.
The principle is easy: while you are browning the web, if you stumble on a very interesting link (it can be a video, a song, an article, a picture, or whatever), you can share it directly on your Topic on scoop it!
Read MoreThe Scoop.it team attended the leading tech european event last week, Leweb. As we’re in private beta, our objective was to get as much feedback as possible and meet key people from the tech industry. Goal 100% achieved, and even more as we got “as a bonus” a few interviews. Each time it’s Guillaume Decugis who speaks, the CEO of Goojet, the company behind Scoop.it
The first one for Capecalm, a Web-TV about startups, entrepreneurship and innovation.
And then, a few others with French medias:
France Télévisions thanks to Jacques Froissant
The day before Leweb, we had the visit of Frenchweb for an interview
Read MoreYES Scoop.it is topic-centric, but BUT we can’t forget that it’s first of all a social media.
The main difference with the others social media is essential: Scoop.it lets users follow topics, not people. Scoop.it brings you content on topics you’ve decided to follow, shared by other people on these topics. People we meet are users who are willing to discuss about the same subjects. What gather people together are their passions! We don’t always share our passions with our friends: especially if they are unusual. Your interest about the Chinese culture may not be shared with your best friend!
Following your feedbacks, we’re glad to announce some new features on Scoop.it Beta.
Discover Scoop.it with this new video and Don’t hesitate to Share it !
From the very beginning of the creation of a topic, the user is deciding everything: your topic is your bab
y!
Over the past few months, there’s been an interesting number of new developments with regards to Web Curation, following several predictions that this would be come a hot topic or even a “billion dollar opportunity“.
What’s this all about ?
A definition I like for web curation is Rohit Bhargava’s : A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.
Read MoreFor a couple of weeks, Scoop.it started its private beta and try to better its users’ experience by releasing regularly new versions to add new features coming from the valuable feedback of the first users. Today, we’re glad to announce some nice new features:
1. Twitter connection to Scoop.it is now live to share easily new posts on Twitter
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If somebody asks you the question, « what’s your favorite topic? » you’ll have no problem to tell him your #1 topic. But when you’ll start your Scoop.it it topic, maybe you’ll have more difficulties to find an original one, with a bit of eccentricity…
Welcome to the Scoop.it blog ! Scoop.it was just officially born a few days ago and though it’s just the beginning, we’re very happy with the result. We hope you like it too.
We created Scoop.it because we felt social media needed much better curation tools than the ones which exist today.
What do we mean by that ?
Read MoreWho has never been a bit envious of these bloggers: they always have something to say, they have inspiration every day, they have an idea about everything…
But the truth is: most people don’t have time for that, it’s complex… and we don’t have a fantastic subject in mind from Monday to Tuesday.
Why is a topic with Scoop.it different to a blog?
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