Brian Heys – thinking out loud

Today, I found a product called Curation Station that could be about to change the way many of us currently collect and curate content. It’s one of the first movers in the content curation toolkit market, and as such, is bound to capture a lot of eyeballs in this fast-developing space.

Curation Station allows you to gather almost any type of content from around the Internet in one central location. All the RSS feeds from blogs or newsfeeds you follow, tweets, podcasts, videos, photos, etc. can be sucked into Curation Station, a bit like your existing RSS reader.

Once all that content is in there, you curate it from the Curation Station console. This process involves creating a ‘playlist’ of content you want to distribute by simply scanning your incoming content, and clicking on the items you want to go live.

Your curated content playlist is then distributed through a ‘station’ that can be embedded anywhere, with just a single line of JavaScript code. Curation Station offers you a high degree of control over the output in terms of look and feel, and your content playlist can make up an entire web page, or a sidebar or content box on an existing page.

I started trying to envisage the ideal content curation tool a couple of weeks ago, and Curation Station seems to have come pretty close to the mark.

If you’re a blogger interested in content curation, you may be able to sign up for a free demo account as part of the beta. I just signed up for one, and can’t wait to give this product a try.

You sign up from the home page – curationstation.com.

PS – I hope they’re already working on a killer iPhone/iPad app; I’ve said why I think iPad will rock for content curators.