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Google Living Stories is an experimental project by Google that showcased (over a brief period between 2009 and 2010) how technology could be used effectively to provide a new, richer and more effective way to organize, serve and present news stories online.

In the Living Stories model, each story is a stream that is continuously updated over time with new updates, additional stories, images, and other multimedia resources that are published over time. 

These are organized on the page in a way that provides maximum accessibility to the reader, allowing him to skim, explore, filter or dig in depth into any category or specific item.

Nonetheless abandoned by Google, Living Stories remains a very inspiring example of how automated news aggregation and manual curation, both required in heavy doses to achieve this type of results, could provide a truly innovative mode of producing and offering access to news information.

The greatest news of all is that Google has left the model, examples and infrastructure for using and improving upon it available to everyone for free.

"The Living Stories code is available as open-source for anyone to use on their own sites at: http://code.google.com/p/living-stories/" 

Must see. 9/10

Free to study, use and adopt.

More info and examples: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ 

WordPress plugin: https://code.google.com/p/living-stories/wiki/WordpressInstallation 

Maria Popova is the author of Literary Jukebox, a fascinating collection of daily quotes from her favorite books, each one thematically matched to a song.

She writes about it: "Sometimes, the connections will be fairly obvious. Other times, they might be more esoteric and require some reflection." 

Literary Jukebox is truly a work of love and a great example of how curating something you truly enjoy, can create permanent value, while providing cultural insight, an opportunity for music discovery to the reader as well as exposure and visibility to the books and music authors included.

N.B.: I encourage you to support Maria's work, as she is a brilliant and inspiring mind and her work on Brain Pickings is a clear demonstration of someone whose work benefits no big brand, advertiser or sponsor, but the likes of you and me and our ability to remain curious.  

Get inspired: http://literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org/ 

See also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/09/introducing-literary-jukebox/ 

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Really nice way to combined a couple of my favorite things, music and literature.   

Ready to take a vacation? Found your destination but do not really know what to go and visit once you are there? KLM, has a fantastic, personalized solution that positions the company as a point of trusted reference for whoever wants to find out what's best to pay attention to, at any travel destination.

The initiative, which due to its success has become a permanent KLM offering, offers the ability to anyone using it, to invite his social media friends who have already been at your next detsination to contribute places, events and spots to visit once you get there.

All of their suggestions are printed on a unique, personalized journey map that KLM sends physically to you, and that showcases all of the suggestions and tips of your network of friends, nicely integrated with the map of your destination.

N.B.: Must see Maps cover only KLM official detsinations.

"...perfect solution to collect and organize the best things to see and do at your destination."

More info: http://mustseemap.klm.com/ot_en/create-map/intro

FAQ: http://mustseemap.klm.com/ot_en/q-and-a

Original video: http://youtu.be/dosrsAy4ENY

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Google Living Stories is an experimental project by Google that showcased (over a brief period between 2009 and 2010) how technology could be used effectively to provide a new, richer and more effective way to organize, serve and present news stories online.

In the Living Stories model, each story is a stream that is continuously updated over time with new updates, additional stories, images, and other multimedia resources that are published over time. 

These are organized on the page in a way that provides maximum accessibility to the reader, allowing him to skim, explore, filter or dig in depth into any category or specific item.

Nonetheless abandoned by Google, Living Stories remains a very inspiring example of how automated news aggregation and manual curation, both required in heavy doses to achieve this type of results, could provide a truly innovative mode of producing and offering access to news information.

The greatest news of all is that Google has left the model, examples and infrastructure for using and improving upon it available to everyone for free.

"The Living Stories code is available as open-source for anyone to use on their own sites at: http://code.google.com/p/living-stories/" 

Must see. 9/10

Free to study, use and adopt.

More info and examples: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ 

WordPress plugin: https://code.google.com/p/living-stories/wiki/WordpressInstallation 

Distilled images woven into a story

Getty Images just knocked it out of the park with this. Great use of music, too. 

Excellent