Goodwill Hunting #05: curation is the future of (re)commerce
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Goodwill Hunting #05: curation is the future of (re)commerce
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In fact, I’d argue an emerging class of creators and consumer brands is actually employing curation as a business strategy. Gohar World, Ganni and Soeur have been sharing city travel guides, Ghia has been sharing Spotify playlists, and tastemakers like Olympia Gayot and Alex Eagle are joining entirely new social platforms purpose-built for discover... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Having said this, and looking at the current information overload we all face on a day-to-day basis, I think there’s room for a new market of creators as curators .
gabygoldberg.medium.com • Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium
Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.
An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.
A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts
... See moreThis problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted collection... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
