Bad news #thoora #socialmedia curation tool says good bye . Back to the future #edtech20 #pln

I am unhappy to begin my Christmas Eve with this bad news but this is the life in a Social Media Curation world, but stay tune,visit daily this blog to discover the power of Social Media Curation tools



To our Au-THOORA-ties from thoora blog

We regret to announce that effective December 15th, 2011, Thoora will be shutting down. It is time for us to say goodbye.

We would like to thank each and every one of you for participating in this crazy journey with us. Your engagement with Thoora and your feedback have been remarkable, and we have loved learning from you. We definitely wouldn’t have gotten as far as we did without you.

We will leave the service running until noon EST December 15th, 2011. At that time we will suspend it indefinitely. This includes the website, the API and WordPress widget, and the Android tablet app. You will automatically be unsubscribed from our mailing list, and all of your account information will be permanently deleted.

If you would like to re-bookmark your favorites in the meantime, do the following:
Log in to your account on Thoora
Access your favorites page for each topic
Click on each favorite to open the content in a new browser tab or window
Re-favorite the item, using your browser’s favoriting function or other tool

Again, thank you for your loyalty and we hope to meet again in the future.
LET'S SEE NOW WHAT WE LOSE :(

ABOUT THOORA

These days, finding the best content on the web is as important as creating it. At Thoora, was built a service with that in mind. We’ve got a new way for you to discover, monitor, and share the best of the web: by creating living bodies of knowledge on the topics you choose. Thoora  believe that the discovery of great content cannot be accomplished by algorithms alone, but nor can any human make sense of the entire web. Thoora’s secret sauce lies in a unique combination of human and machine. While patented semantic aggregation engine delivers quality content, thoora  put you in the driver’s seat, giving you the tools to refine, re-order and prioritize. The result? Human-perfected, living bodies of knowledge that are always fresh and relevant.Based in Toronto, Canada, Thoora was founded by University of Toronto PhD Chul Lee, a data mining and search expert, along with Kyu Lee and Byron Ma. Over the past three years, the team at Thoora has built and refined a patented engine to help discover, rate and deliver the highest quality, most trusted, and relevant content on any given topic. Thoora explores the entire blogosphere, Twittosphere, other social media apps, and thousands of traditional media sources; and then uses over 100 signals to filter, rank, and deliver that content to you for your refinement. Thoora then uses the actions behind your refinement to further optimize the results.With Thoora, let us distill the vast land of content out there for you; boil it down to only what you need. Then you can make the best of the rest of it. Happily.