In that order.

The three API’s we chose to integrate into TinyVox !

Psychic stuff, John.

Don’t you sometimes wish you could shout the word “CURATION” to yourself back in time ?

Like, imagine if you had that word in 1997…

It’s the combination of the platforms which I find so compelling, not any one of them. When I think about News consumption, for most of my life I read the NYTimes. That was all I had time for, and that was enough. Now, I read the most relevant sections of the Times, the best of WSJ, HBR, dozens of other magazines and assorted blogs. I personally curate what gets sent to me.

The “social sites” are simply different sections of my “newspaper that is now the internet”. Facebook is my “Local” section. Twitter is “Fast-breaking news”. And Tumblr is “Arts and Entertainment.”

Because the road to profitability is massive scale, no one platform has discovered how to leverage the uniqueness of individuals and the uniqueness of each site. David Lifson’s comment, above, about the potential for the business model is worth pursuing.

What I like about Tumblr is that the best people I follow “see things that I could never see.” And if they could connect me with monetizable products or content because of that unique world view, and get a percentage of the revenue, I would be much happier than seeing random ads on their blogging platform.

If the first step is curating the content, the second step might be curating commerce.

By social mores, you are possibly referring to the third aspect of the human nature (after signal, curation and discovery): the Community. The substance of Social is Community and without Community, there is no Social. If Tumblr provides Community than that’s good sign, otherwise, the race is on.

Do I value my brother’s Tweets less than say Guy Kawasaki? Do I care more about Aziz Ansari’s tumblr than my colleagues?

Absolutely not, but the way that the data is fed back to me is such that I often miss their posts in the midst of the deluge from power users. Learning how to solve for this issue is my biggest discovery challenge and one I hope has a more elegant solution than simply clicking ‘Unfollow.’

In a single dashboard I can have my recent favorite http://instagra.ms/, the best of instagram, a collection of F- yeah’s (the common tumblr meme) ie F – yeah Space as well as themed inspiration around Travel (http://blog.flight001.com/) or fashion (http://racinglikeapro.tumblr.com/)

The biggest issue I have with every database (Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, even local) is that of velocity. The people who post most & fasted crowd out others that I find equally valuable, but therefore never see.

Do I value my brother’s Tweets less than say Guy Kawasaki? Do I care more about Aziz Ansari’s tumblr than my colleagues?

Absolutely not, but the way that the data is fed back to me is such that I often miss their posts in the midst of the deluge from power users. Learning how to solve for this issue is my biggest discovery challenge and one I hope has a more elegant solution than simply clicking ‘Unfollow.’

Flipboard brings to life the social feed in an way that makes exploring what people are up to in my network a pleasure. If they can find a way to filter the content to what I want to see at any given moment they will be the next big thing (if they already aren’t).