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October 21, 2022

A Modern Bookmark Manager for saving and sharing your links

What is a modern bookmark manager and how can it help you be more productive? Most people are familiar with and have used bookmark managers. However, it is important to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of your bookmarking process. Does your bookmark manager save the necessary meta information to improve the findability and reusability of …

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September 22, 2017

Everything you need to manage too many tabs in Chrome!

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , , ,

Do you have a tab problem? You are not alone.  There is hardly anyone working with the Internet today, without a tab problem. Tab problem is part of the larger challenge of “information overload” for today’s information worker. Reasons are numerous, but simply put, you are swamped by interesting articles, insights and fun things on …

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August 17, 2017

Everything you need to know for a successful backlink strategy!

Backlinks are a strong indicator of popularity for search engines. In order to rank for the top 10 searches (SERP) on google, you need a well crafted backlink strategy. Depending on the keyword you want to rank for, you will need anywhere between 15 to over a hundred backlinks, per post. To get that many …

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July 30, 2017

Introducing a Breakthrough News Curation Tool for Journalist

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , , ,

This is the story and inspiration behind our news curation tool. We started working on ways to curate and share information back in 2001. Before browsers had tabs, we released a multi-tab browser called “optimal Desktop” that allowed users to curate and manage access to hundreds of web destinations with ease. The curated information was …

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May 22, 2017

Why Curation is a good strategy for small publishers

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , , , , ,

How do you compete with big brand publishers.  Brands like NYTimes, Huffington Post or Daily Kos, with staff or network of writers able to generate new content on a continuous basis creating engagement and online ad revenue.

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October 20, 2016

A Study on the Benefits of Content Curation

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , , , ,

Curation works best when the curated topic is crowd-sourced. This statement is based on a 2 year case study of  a real world environment where a group of 70 users – who used our KBrowser solution to manage access to information

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May 18, 2016

A lesson in Editing and Organizing curated content with KBrowser

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , ,

This is my 6th post in a series of posts examining our KBrowser features against Robin Good’s criteria for the ideal content curation tool. Here, Robin has defined a set of features for presenting your curated content online. I have combined editing, display formats, arrangement and navigation and ownership into one post.  Let’s take a look at …

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May 15, 2016

A lesson in monitoring and discovering news in Optimal Access

By Karan Bavandi Tags: , , ,

This is my 5th post in a series of posts examining our Optimal Access features against Robin Good’s criteria for the ideal content curation tool.  Here, Robin has defined a set of features for Content Monitoring, news discovery and filtering when considering a curation tool.  Let’s take a look at the set of questions and our response.

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