Pearltrees (a former consulting client) this week introduced the 2.0 version of its popular web page curation tool built completely with HTML 5.0 and with a completely different user interface and metaphor.The tool now represents web pages as a …

ZERO1 Executive Director Joel Slayton and Jaime Austin - Curator and Director of Programs for ZERO1The ZERO1 Biennial, a three month long festival of art and technology begins today in San Jose with the theme "Seeking Silicon Valley."This year the …

(Gopi Kallayil, head of Google+ speaking at TEDxBerkeley earlier this year.)TED, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, has expanded its brand across the globe over the past two years, with hundreds of local TEDx conferences, and more …

(Bryan Rhoads, Editor-in-Chief of iQ at Intel's offices in the Presidio, San Francisco.)Earlier today, I met the team responsible for this morning's launch of 'iQ by Intel', an online magazine featuring daily news and feature articles from around …

(Photos by Tom Foremski.)Friday evening I was at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate park to see The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.The museum is on a roll with its exhibits of leading fashion designers. The …

Congratulations to Pearltrees, (a former client) on raising 5 million Euros, about $6.7 million in Series B funding. The Paris-based company offers a web service that groups users' selected web pages into collections of "pearls" - visual metaphors …

SFCurators Salon meeting was excellent as usual. It's always a great group of people and conversations.At the latest meeting, our featured speaker was Matt Monday, a former Apple exec who lead the team that picked apps for the Apple AppStore.He …

(Pearltrees is a consulting client.)Pearltrees, a French-based curation platform, today released an iPad app that lets users easily explore the curated collections of websites created by more than 200,000 people, via a unique visual and touch …

I'm having fun pulling together a Pearltrees documentary from found footage of the recent Outside Lands 2011 music festival. I haven't seen anyone else take this approach but I expect people to do it in the future for various events, even birthday …

SFCurators Salon met Wednesday evening at PeopleBrowsr and I'm still buzzing from all the great conversations and ideas it generated.We pulled our chairs into a large circle to get away from the traditional arrangement of speakers on a podium and …

(Pearltrees is a consulting client.)Pearltrees this week released a version of its online curation service that allows it to be embedded in Facebook walls and makes it easier to share Pearls of content across different online communities.The company …

I've been to several TEDxSF events but the most recent one felt like a breakthrough event because of the mix of people and talks, plus the new venue.The event was sold out with about 650 tickets for the Yerba Buena location, a larger theater than …

Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. Prior to this he was the first employee at TechCrunch. He has also held numerous executive positions in technology companies and has founded and successfully exited two startups of his own. You …

Last week I wrote about the Oriella survey of journalists that found that the majority do not use social media or blogs for verifying and sourcing stories.[Oriella Survey: Most Journalists Shun Social Media And Blogs - SVW]No one is asking …

There seems to be quite a few people in marketing that look upon "curation" as an inexpensive and quick way to get content onto a site.After all, how hard can it be to collect a few links and publish them?However, "cheap" content doesn't mean it's …

Last week I wrote about the tyranny of the timeline and how good content disappears once it is pushed off the home page and into the archives.[How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny Of The Timeline - SVW]Of course, the content is …

When I first started blogging in 2004, I didn't like the way blogging software gradually pushed older stories off the page and into the archives.It tended to discourage me from writing some posts because I didn't want to lose better, or what I …

Last Thursday was the inaugural meeting of SFCurators Salon in North Beach and I couldn't be more happier about the turnout (see below).I set up the group with my colleague Oliver Starr as a place where like-minded people could discuss the topic of …

(Patrice Lamothe, CEO of Pearltrees.)I'm proud to bring you news about Pearltrees, the company I've been working with the past year: this morning it announced it has reached 100,000 members and monthly traffic of 10 million pageviews -- that's about …

As the subject of curation takes off VCs are funding more "curation" startups which could likely lead to a bubble in this sector.VCs are beginning to talk publicly about "curation" which means they are telling startups what type of companies they …

It's clear that the interest of Internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view.I'm thinking of Quora as one example. But also Digg, MySpace and many …

As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments. For example, the South by South West Interactive conference that is winding down in Austin, …

Curation is a hot topic in regard to the Internet but curation is nothing new -- most of us do it without even thinking about it.Take a look around your home and you will likely see many curations:- Your book shelf is probably a curated collection …

Curation is a hot topic and it's a topic that is being enthusiastically adopted by many in social media -- so much so that curation and social media seem to be beginning to be used interchangeably.Take a look at this post on the BBC College of …

Much has been written about how search is broken and this is why curation -- in its many forms -- is on the rise (Pearltrees is a client).Paul Kedrosky writing on Infectious Greed: Curation is the New Search is the New CurationWhat has happened is …

There seems to be three forms of search emerging as Internet users try to deal with the tsunami of information and the increasingly effective techniques of spammers.The first form of search is Google, and this will continue to be important, as much …

Much has been written lately about the lower quality of Google's search results. A poll by Lifehacker found that 77% agreed that Google search results had "become less useful to you lately."If search is becoming less useful then how will we navigate …

[For much of this year I have been working with Pearltrees, which offers a visual web site curation service based on the visual metaphor of 'pearls' please see below for an example.]Pearltrees this week launched a "Team" version of its curation …

There is no doubt in my mind that the topic of curation and the Internet, is an important one and that it will be a dominant topic in 2011. Curation is important because we are reaching the limits of what can be achieved through algorithms and …