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Feb11

Content is king - personalized content is his kingdom!

Content is king - personalized content is his kingdom!

Everyone knows it - content is king, what would life be whitout it? Quit scary and really empty I guess. What would the web be whitout content? It´s a stupid question of course, but when you time after time reads about this theme we all have to understand that content is everything, it´s bigger than the king, it is his whole kingdom! 

Okey, that´s for sure. But what about our own created personal content? How come the discussions isn´t more focused on what we bring with us to contribute to a better web. I´m not trying to say that there isn´t any discussions about this, I read for a couples of days ago a good post from Brian Solis about consuming or contribute of content, but I don´t see that many new services or platforms who makes it funny, easy and meaningful for people to be both consumers and creators.

There´s of course easy for anyone to set up a blog, and with services like Tumblr and other "easy web tools" Nowadays there's also some really nice photo sharing services out there like Picplz that is my favorite. But that´s it. If it´s easy to set up a blog it´s much more difficult to get on with the writing, you know exactly what I mean.

I´ve read somewhere that there is only 30% that are content providers on the internet. The rest of us "just" consume. There isn´t any problem with that if there wasn´t for the fact that people want to express themselfs, people like to communicate and like to contribute, that´s why we are social creatures. 

I think that we´re gonna see some new great services when it comes to be a creator of content, not just a consumer. Traditional media has taken some steps in the right direction and the best example is Mashable that allows us to follow topics and be social, if you haven´t seen it take a look here. Then we have Flipboard who has made it possible for you to be fill your own magazine with sources that you trust and enjoy. Upon that they integrated your social networks and even though you don´t create content it feels like you have... and that´s enough in this case. 

Another favorite of mine is paper.li who makes your own newspaper upon wich sources you follow on twitter. And it really works - the content that creates from the links that people and business that I follow publish on Twitter is exactly the things that I wanna read about. Try it! 

If you like Facebook and Twitter but feel that the feed isn´t interesting enough, have hope cause there is gonna be changes - and that´s a promise! 

 

Take care folks!

Stefan_Krafft2

 

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