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Content marketing occurs in one of two ways: Creation & Curation. Creation is where you’re creating new content, curation is where you’re aggregating and/or organizing information that already exists. One of the most effective ways curate content in a way that builds relationships and links is to create a weekly roundup of all of the great content that’s been produced in your industry. The problem? It can take a lot of time. The solution? Read on.

Lazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well. The one thing that some potential users may not like about Lazyscope is that it’s an Adobe AIR application, which many people are not very fond of. Regardless, it installs and runs pretty flawlessly; however, usage is another story.

If you use sites like Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to find and favorite interesting content then you’ll love Faveous. Right now Faveous is a very basic service in its “first private alpha,” but if you check out the features page you’ll see that there are a lot of new things coming soon. What it does is import all of your favorites (and “likes” from Facebook) into a single location so that you have easy access to them.

Happy new year and welcome to 2011. You made it through the holidays. Many of you today will ponder the changes you plan to make this year. Some may involve technology. Jenna Wortham at The Times has a good one. One of my technology New Year’s resolutions is to simplify my systems. Oddly enough, for me at least, this marks a return to an old standby: reading feeds.

If you're not familiar with RockMelt, it's a a web browser that focuses on social sharing, Facebook chat and RSS feeds. It's built on Chromium, so it has the speed of Google Chrome along with most of the design. While some of Chrome's extensions do not quite work properly on RockMelt, there are others that work beautifully. I know some people who decided not to use RockMelt because it's lack of compatibility with extensions, but with new updates happening every week RockMelt is quickly improving and worth

As privacy is becoming an even bigger concern, the centralization of our information is an issue almost no one can afford to ignore. As such, there is a lot of talk and debate about whether we are giving up too much of our information to Google and, if so, can we trust them with that information. This spurred a conversation with a friend of mine some time ago on the topic and we both began to think about the Google services we use on a daily basis. We put aside all of the services we use without any action