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January 25th 2012

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Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future

“Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters. More than anything, this is perhaps the single biggest hole that exists not just in Twitter but Facebook and other services as well”

Full Story: GigaOm


Posted at 12:51pm and tagged with: social media, technology, tech,.

Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future “Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters. More than anything, this is perhaps the single biggest hole that exists not just in Twitter but Facebook and other services as well” Full Story: GigaOm
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