Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Opportunity: web curation

Yeah, yeah, I know.  People always talk about this.  But seriously - with the demise of Google Reader and the deemphasis of Alerts, this guy has put two and two together to realize that the big players don't actually like curation.  It's not drivable, it doesn't pop ads, and .. well, curation is for understanding, not money.  He links to a good little article on Facebook's extortion model, too.  Interesting stuff.

Corporate control is anathema to usability.

The takeaway: there's still a lot of need for curation tools.  If the big players don't like them, well, more opportunity to go around.

Acquisition = failure

An interesting take indeed.  I like it.