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SXSWi Award Winners Include Pinterest, Storify and a Few Surprises [PICS]

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Curated South by Southwest Interactive officially drew to a close Tuesday with the 15th Annual Interactive Awards. The awards honored not only well-known sites and services from the past year such as Pinterest and Storify, but also highlighted sites, services and apps that you may have never heard of. While [...]

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At SXSW: Tech, pop culture, fun

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Curated Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Jack Black are making appearances in the Texas capital at the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) soiree. So are technology innovators such as America Online co-founder Steve Case and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. The festival, launched in 1989 to draw [...]

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SXSW and The Curators Debate: The Curators and the Curated

Curated By Tom George

A great curated story by Guillaume De Cugis of Scoop.it who has nicely synthesized the topics discussed yesterday at SXSW with Maria Popova (BrainPickings), David Carr (the New York Times), Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard) and Noah Brier (Percolate). Moderated by Max Linsky (longform.org). See also the sketchnote at : http://blog.fueledbycoffee.com/tagged/sxswcurate Via storify.com [View the story "The Curators and [...]

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Welcome to SXSW Interactive 2012

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Curated Join Entrepreneur’s Colleen DeBaise as she explores the annual South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, an annual convergence of startups and other web enthusiasts. She takes us on scene this weekend as the action goes into full swing. Take a peek inside to meet some of the [...]

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Twenty thousand reasons to go to SXSW

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards For SXSW, that interest has intensified since 2007, when Twitter exploded onto the scene during that year’s event, and since 2009, when both Foursquare and Gowalla blew up while in Austin. Now, every young social media startup wants to repeat those companies’ success, and wants to use SXSW as the springboard [...]

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Collective Intelligence Join In The Discussion Now on Quora

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Covering the emerging 3.0 semantic web, content curation and social tools that will eventually lead to universal online intelligence. We are having a discussion on this topic via Quora so feel free to jump in and make your knowledge on the topic known. Via www.quora.com Related Reading: TweetDeck Learn to Use [...]

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Technology and creativity go “full spectrum” at TED

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – UtopianDynamics Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world. Via www.physorg.com Related Reading: Darice 80-Piece Deluxe Art SetStudio 71 deluxe art set overflows with color and creativity. For the serious [...]

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Stefano and your Wedding in Le Marche: 360° Wedding Planner, Pesaro

Curated By Marchebreaks

As an artistic director specialising in exclusive events, Stefano plans every wedding with the vision and ability of a true problem solver. Every moment of the ceremony is planned and directed under his careful supervision to ensure that everything happens exactly as it should, and with no unpleasant surprises, leaving the bride and groom with only happy memories of [...]

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Content Curation Contests Seeks World’s Best Curators

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Content Curation Contest is On. There is a new class of information worker – content curators – who, thanks to Raleigh web developers and Internet marketers Atlantic BT, have a contest. Raleigh, N.C. (PRWEB) February 06, 2012 Curators who enter the first Content Curation Contest can win an I Pad 2®, [...]

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Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards This year’s fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech’s greatest innovators. If you [...]

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Stars Of January Jig Come Out Of The Closet On Video

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards You know a project is successful when you hear words like:“The pleasure is mine and I am amazed at the learning and sharing!” and “This was a blast and I’m thankful to meet new people and share ideas today.” Quotes like that have been common as we got deeper into January [...]

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Sant’Antonio Abate

Curated By Marchebreaks

Via Scoop.it – Le Marche another Italy On the 17th of January the Catholic Church commemorates Sant’Antonio Abate (Saint Anthony the Abbot), patron saint of animali domestici (pets and farm animals), macellai e quelli che lavorano il maiale (butchers and those who process pork), and coloro che sono afflitti dal fuoco di sant’Antonio (those who [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions For Smart People

Curated By Martin Gysler

Normally I shun the predictable posts, leaving them up to some of the other authors here. I’m not a fan of following the crowd and, somehow, popping off “trends to watch” and “New Year’s Resolutions” themes seems unoriginal to me. Sometimes, being unoriginal is, to me, the worst thing I could be with respect to [...]

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What’s it like to give a TEDx talk? Speakers tell their stories

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading — through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events. If your New Year’s resolution is to give a TEDx talk yourself — or to silence your inner monologue that thinks “I can’t do public speaking” — [...]

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Happy New Year 2012

Curated By Martin Gysler

A beautiful evening and a Happy New Year 2012! With full of everything you want and more. I look forward to seeing you in great shape and with plenty of new exchanges interesting and rewarding. Via www.flickr.com Related Reading: Holiday New Year’s Eve (Movie Only Edition Blu-ray+UltraViolet Digital Copy)Director/producer Garry Marshall brings together an stellar [...]

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