And they expect retailers to curate their assortments to offer the best value and experiences available.
The Flipboard app allows users to curate topics of interest to them and display them in one of the slickest app experiences out there.
Accessibility to an ever fragmented media has never been easier through more powerful mobile devices and roaming 4G wireless internet, allowing people to curate and personalise content relevant to their individual needs.
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Friends Reunited's team believe they have identified a gap, highlighted by the recent whirlwind success of image sharing site Pinterest, in which people like to curate material that means something to them.
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The participants debated the challenges of differentiation versus commodization, the goal of launching less phones but more consumer choice, perhaps by offering hardware customization options, and the best ways to curate and deliver personal content to the cloud.
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Beyond delivering spot-on search results and insightful recommendations, M-GO has a stable of entertainment experts to curate the content and help cut through the clutter to get the entertainment that is just right for each person.
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"It's not only a great honour to curate Meltdown in its 20th year, it's also a lot of fun to be able to invite many of my favourite performers, activists and favourite collaborators to join me, " she said.
Last week I was back in New Orleans for my first visit in 20 years, and although in town to curate a photography exhibition for the New Orleans Photo Alliance, I was also there to take my own photographs of a city I knew to be incredibly photogenic and full of warm-hearted, fun-loving people.
To curate our group, we spoke with artists and insiders (Roger Gastman, Shepard Fairey, Steve Lazarides) to help narrow down a list.
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If Patnaik can get CEOs focused on one thing it is to curate creativity.
When Sears went into the art business, the company hired Vincent Price to curate.
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First off, Pinterest allows people to curate and share things by offering boards arranged by subject matter.
Most people carefully curate their pages to present the most interesting and exciting parts of their lives.
The purpose of NPR Music is to curate music and champion their taste.
In an era of relevance and consumer engagement, a corporation cannot afford to rely solely on its community to curate conversation.
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Currently it has a partnership with Whitechapel Gallery in London to curate an annual exhibit that coincides with Art Basel in Miami.
And which brands are we going to trust to curate the content?
Yoko Ono is to curate next year's Meltdown festival, following in the footsteps of stars such as David Bowie, Ray Davies and Jarvis Cocker.
The company has an 8-person in-house development team tasked with coming up with new ideas, and also looks to curate concepts it finds from others outside that group.
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To escape the sense that Instagram's feed is merely a snapshot of the past few hours, Systrom said his developers are working to find better ways to curate older content.
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Able to curate much deeper, interactive social experiences.
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For its launch, Google asked celebrities (including fashion plates Carey Mulligan and the Olsen twins), fashion bloggers and retailers to curate their own boutiques, which cull items from e-commerce sites all over the web.
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With boots strapped, we can look forward to some new features, such as the option to curate messages that are published (such as during live events) plus tweets with interactive features like polls during live sports games.
Both Instagram and Pinterest have brought a greater visual element to social networking, further reinforcing the idea that people (especially younger people) want to curate and then share who they are and what their lives are about with their communities online.
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The earlier mentioned Fast Company article suggests that the way to capture higher value is for creative strategists to evolve from story-tellers to story-builders, meaning they curate, participate, and add to never-ending story-lines in co-creation with the end individuals.
For example, Twitter is a social tool that requires very little time to use, it is much easier to send a quick 140-character tweet out during or after lunch than to carefully curate visually-driven boards on Pinterest.
However, it provides a faster, easier way to create, curate and schedule posts and measure results.
The company is also working on tools for outsiders to more effectively curate videos, and create followings for their personal taste, he said.
The Pixel Web makes it easy to produce and curate content, while D-commerce is the vehicle by which the products are getting distributed and discovered.
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