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Friday, January 7, 2011

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web
As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we’re finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? How can we balance the need for timely, relevant information with reasonable limits of our ability to find, sort, fact check and validate information?

The solution on the horizon is curation. You can either choose to be a curator — offering your filtered world view to followers — or you can choose curators to follow. As curation moves to center stage, a new category of software is emerging to provide curation solutions.

In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. Each of their unique differences will make them popular with different classes of users.

It would be impossible to explore all of the tools here — and there are more appearing every day — but here are four worth the consideration of anyone curious about curation workflow options.

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