Yahoo is in talks to buy Dailymotion, a smaller YouTube competitor, proving that the future of the Internet lies squarely in video.

Curators are the new superheros of the web--here's how to tell if you're the real thing, or just faking it.

How TED and GE use audience curation as a way to build authenticity and audience engagement in unlikely ways.

Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 billion emails were sent. No wonder content curation is one of the most important jobs of our digital age.

Moderating a panel on curation at last weeks BlogWorldExpoNY, I got caught in the crossfire among Paper.li's Edouard Lambelet, Eric Hippeau, and Magnify's Steve Rosenbaum. Is curation a good thing? Or something that can limit discovery and force us into old conclusions?

Showing leadership in social media means listening to people and helping them gather on a platform, internally and externally.

After weeks of survey research, it turns out--the bounty and abundance of web data is out of control. As Google's Eric Schmidt has been quoted, from the beginning of time to 2003, we created 5 Exabytes of data. We're now creating that every two days--and it's accelerating.

For several years there were two kinds of people in social media, those who create content and those who consume it.

Anytime there's a blog post or an article about Curation--someone pipes up in the comments with a weary sigh and says: "Isn't this just a fancy new word for an editor?"

So, let's deal with this in a direct way.

A curator is NOT an editor. Here's why.

Editors come in many shapes and sizes. The flavors include Acquisitions Editor, Articles Editor, Assignment Editor, Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Contributing Editor/Editor at Large, Department/Features Editor, Executive Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor-in-Chief.