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Written by: James Burke 03 September 2010 11:55
curated.by (@CuratedBy) is a beta service being developed by Bastian Lehmann and Sam Street that currently allows “collections” of tweets to be “bundled” via a “Bundler” web app or via the twitter website using their Chrome extension.
Bundles can presented as a URL (eg http://curated.by/deburca/open-education-resources-oer) or as a widget that can be embedded into a blog, website page etc.
The “Bundler” allows the collating/collecting of tweets via your twitter streams, lists as well as any search by simply hovering over a tweet and clicking the arrow to move to a bundle. All bundles are sorted by date in a descending order.
Bundles can be embedded as below as a widget, although currently the widget does not appear to show all curated tweets in the bundle as per http://curated.by/deburca/open-education-resources-oer.
A bundle URL (eg http://curated.by/deburca/open-education-resources-oer) can followed, liked, shared and embedded by others if the bundle has been made public (there is an option to make private during initial “curation”)
A “Discovery” and social element is also included so that you can discover and follow other curators and their bundles.
On first impressions I like it, and thanks to @basti who responded quickly to this tweet where I wondered if this would be useful as a learning resource/social object and set me up with a beta account.
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick I also “Really Hope Curated.By Launches Soon”!
Another recent example of Curation is the “new black”…!? is DataSift (@datasift) being developed by Nick Halstead and introduced nicely in the video below and via this video interview by Robert Scoble: “Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder.
Why is DataSift important?, well… “This is What a Tweet Looks Like":
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