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We’re calling this latest slew of features Eqentia+, in sympathy with GooglePlus. Our users have been asking for people and content discovery to go alongside our contextual and actionable content indexing, as well as increased social media integration points. We have responded with the following innovative new features. Content Discovery Content discovery comes in two [...]

It’s not quite a chicken and egg syndrome, but the question is: Do People lead to Content or does Content lead to People? I think both are equally true, but the novelty is coming from the later statement- Content leading to People. People Leading to Content You meet someone or you come across a person [...]

  I’ve been wanting to frame in one picture the current phase of the Internet’s evolution: the Social Internet. I drew this Infographic as a way to see the social Internet’s landscape in one place, to spark a discussion about its ecosystem, and to prove that there is a lot more than ‘social media’ and [...]

There are two flavors of content discovery: serendipitous and targeted. Social media is giving us tons of serendipitous discovery via following people on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and now Google Plus. But how about Targeted Discovery? Just like Targeted Filtering (covered in a previous post) accomplishes a different objective than People Filtering, Targeted Discovery should bring [...]

Since Clay Shirky’s famous remark about filter failures, we know that filters have a direct effect on the quality and quantity of information we end-up consuming. Personally, I’ve never wholeheartedly agreed with the belief that there is a systematic filter failure, because in my world, my filters are quite sophisticated (via Eqentia). Let me explain. [...]

There’s this illusion that one day, we’ll get all our news from social media. I don’t believe so. Don’t get me wrong about believing in the importance and vibrancy of social media. It’s here to stay, of course. But today, social media has more mindshare than market share, at least from a news content perspective. [...]

One of the curation players that allows “anyone” to be a publisher by “creating” their own newspaper by selecting a combination of Facebook or Twitter lists, accounts, hashtags or keywords is making additional marketing noise about a couple of new curation features. They have indeed lowered the barriers of publishing, but is it such a [...]

A well respected VC friend of mine recently asked me this pointed question: why is this social reader start-up (which shall remain nameless) receiving massive hype? I was quick to respond as follows:“How many RSS readers were there between 2000 and 2006: 40 or 50? How many viable ones are there today: 1 or 2? [...]

Today, we’re launching Eqentia 2.0, the latest release of our SaaS-based software, featuring a self-service capability for enterprise portals, as well as a totally revamped user interface. With the new self-service option, a user configures their news stream from a combination of powerful text-mining filters, choice of 35,000 global sources, a context-specific Twitter stream, and [...]

The Internet has a history of hyping concepts. Gartner popularized the term “hype cycle”, where a “peak of inflated expectations” follows the initial “technology trigger”. I believe we’re at that peak with Digital Curation. I’ve been to that movie before in 1999 when the advent of electronic marketplaces was a hot trend that was supposed [...]