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Qrait: Making realtime curation dead easy

Posted December 14, 2010 4:49 pm ○ Show Tags

Yesterday afternoon I caught up with David Somers to discuss all things curation, and more specifically his latest project, Qrait. You can hear what David had to say in the following CinchCast.

Download the interview with David Somers as MP3

Over the past few months, as I’ve explored numerous curation services, I’ve started to get a clearer idea of what it is I’m looking for. Ironically it’s the very thing that I now crave that turned me off Qrait when I first looked at it a couple of months ago – simplicity. At the time it seemed a little bland, after all I’d been playing with lovely looking drag-and-drop UI’s and the like. However, it wasn’t until earlier this week when I took a second look at Qrait that I uncovered its full potential.

At the time I was pulling together some information. I decided to give the Qrait bookmarklet a try. Within minutes I had my data and I’d grabbed the embed code. My initial reaction had evaporated, and as I began to dig a little deeper further treats were in store.

The Qrait.com website makes the following claim: ‘Qrait a real-time content curation tool that makes it dead easy to curate content from around the web.’ – and that’s the key for me. All you need to do is enter your text, or your URL, or your twitter search, and it does the rest – even offering you the ability to use rich text within your comments. In addition to this by using a combination of OEmbed and their own embedding system, Qrait ensure that not only is it one of the easiest tools to use but it also provides attractive looking results from a wide variety of sources.

My advice, get along to Qrait.com and apply for a place on the Alpha. The next few months could prove to be very interesting.