According to them , “ It’s your personalized social reader.”  Wired describes it as “one of a growing category of iPad apps that build you a personal newspaper by grabbing content from your social networks. The difference with Flipboard is that it actually feels like picking up a magazine and flipping through it, but the super simple interface hides some powerful features.”. I’ve gotten a lot of great recommendations on new content sources that I’ll add to my personal feed, but this part of the process is a distant second in terms of where I go to jam my brain.  MORE >>

If you have this curation effort done by humans, this is totally different, we all need guidance. FH: What’s the difference between Twitter, Google or Paper.li, etc as curation tools. SR: I think Facebook can get personalized filtering right. Q: What’s the difference between being a Censor of content or a Curator of content? Panel session with Francine Hardaway (Moderator), Steve Rossenbaum (Curation Nation), Eric Hippeau (Huffington Post), Ed Lambert (Paper.li). FH: Steve, how do you feel about Content Curation and why? FH: Ed, Why Paper.li? EL: Paper.li MORE >>

We’ll be hashing through what entrepreneurship really means, what a startup really is, and what innovation really makes a difference on society and the economy (what is “making a difference” anyway?). Our panel will be a group of diverse “entrepreneurs” – from high-growth speedups as described by Startup America to social entrepreneurs who might not provide huge financial returns but contribute in other ways – and we’ll be talking about the similarities and differences between everyone’s idea of their own Entrepreneurship. MORE >>

Although Google+, like Facebook, allows you to  share personal information, post your status and post pictures and links, Google+ claims to be unique in one major way. They will be able to drag and drop names into different groups, or also known as ‘Circles’, and give their Circles titles, like “family” or “leads group.” After trying multiple times, Google has introduced another attempt to take on Facebook and dominate the social networking scene. The biggest question is whether this new product will attract enough users to be competitive. So I’m commenting from my armchair. MORE >>

But I do think there are different levels of “success” that can be achieved, using the same tools, with both being worthwhile. How about a contest that gives a free meal to the person who gets the most votes for a summer drink?  Yesterday I found myself in a Twitter discussion with Ari Herzog (@ ariherzog ) that was getting confusing (due to 140-character soundbites…) and, on Ari’s good advice, needed further off-Twitter explanation.  So I thought I’d take the opportunity to expand on the discussion. Yadda yadda yadda.  What then?  Do we start tweeting?  Facebook? Blogging? MORE >>