How Storify And Pinterest Are Cultivating The Wild Web, And Why Social Media Will Civilize The Internet

Pinterest gives people the ability to curate photos on various online pinboards easily and quickly, and to follow pinboards curated by others. Instead of asking users to set up their own account from scratch, Pinterest users can login with their Facebook or Twitter accounts. Integration, rather than direct competition, with the giants of social media appears to be the strategy, and it seems to be working. Storify does something similar. Not only does the “social story-telling” site allow users to login in via Facebook or Twitter, it allows them to curate stories or events on the web using Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and various other social media and news sites. Rather than seeing the internet devolve into the lowest common denominator, we’re seeing the rise of social-cultivation online. Read more at Forbes