Curah! or self curator

This feeling is familiar to you: you read many excellent articles every day on interesting topics and all the time you are upset that you yourself are not able to formulate thoughts just as beautifully? Or do you just do not have enough time to sit at the keyboard and share what you know? However, can you analyze a lot of different materials and group information by subject / author / technology?

For those people who for one reason or another do not create their own content, but really want to be useful to people, Microsoft has created its own service called " Curah! ". As you might guess from the title, it beats the word Curate, which means to supervise (here, I agree, even the Russian word explains little. Here is a link to the dictionary ).

The essence of the service is simple - to enable people to create their own collections of links to materials that they are not the authors of. For example, you know that a certain list of articles describes well security in Windows Phone. In this case, you create the appropriate curation (simply a new record) in which you place links to the required materials. In the description indicate the approximate content of the materials from the collection, what they narrate, assign tags and so on. Below are the links themselves. Thus, you get a complete thematic digest on a particular topic. Here's what it looks like:
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Now, when asked by a colleague, what should he read to study a particular topic, you simply give him one link to your curation, instead of remembering for a long time where you read it yourself. The service also has support for RSS feeds (Featured, Latest, Popular) to always stay up to date.

Here are some more good examples of curation:
- Getting Started with ASP.NET vNext
- Cross platform development with Portable Class Libraries (PCL)
- Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step
- VMWare For The DBA (not one Microsoft)

The main goal of the project is to give people the opportunity to share useful materials with each other not as separate articles, but as part of a logical unit, although you can personally use it for simple grouping based on personal preferences. I myself have not yet begun to use it, although I see a certain convenience in this approach. The only pity is that Microsoft itself does not specifically advertise it, despite the fact that the service has been around for quite some time and the number of supervisions is constantly increasing.