Group items tagged

Facebook = People. Facebook is the way to learn what's going on in the lives of people you already know. Google+ = Passions. Google+ enables you to pursue your passions with people you don't know.

The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby. Even with good metadata, it's still all "data"--whether raw unfiltered, or tagged and sourced, it's all treated like another input to your digital inbox. Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus.

The story of Zappos.

"Pinterest is a place where we can demonstrate: 'If it weren't for all those mundane things that I do that I post on Facebook, this is what I would be doing and consuming. Here is my real self"