Wakelet: A New Social Media Wave - Wake It Up

Do you ever get tired of big news agency's repetitive articles on the same issue over and over again? Do you find it hard to concentrate on what you were interested in at the beginning, just before you got lost in almost endless information flow?
Now here's a brand new social platform to help you stay focused: Wakelet.

"Save links to articles, images, videos, tweets and other great content to curate stunning, shareable collections called Wakes", this is the description about what Wakelet is for, and there's no simpler way to explain it than that. In a sense it's doing the same thing as Reddit, differences are: the web appearance and the user interface are much more elegant and have more modern-ish feeling, because it's a reading based platform, it provides very comfortable environment for you to search and read and collect your favorite items, on the down side it doesn't support much of interaction between users, which composes the second difference with Reddit. There's no comment or private message, you can at most leave a like on people's collection, or "save the item" you found.


There's not much of content creating element in it, you just collect and share your collection (or choose not to share to public), the biggest players are the most patient and persistent collectors. These people catch and collect the latest news, fun niches, or build an entire tribute to a certain topic, celebrity...

I started using it a few months ago and the topic interests me personally most of course is solar energy, since I'm running this Solar Power Venice thing. So I started collecting solar energy news on Wakelet, where I used to put on facebook page and share on twitter, but they can soon be buried in the ocean of all kinds of information. Instead, here on Wakelet, people can find and stick to the topic one wants to follow very easily.  

My collection "Solar Power News" pops up as the first result if you search "solar power" or "solar energy". Here is a snapped photo of the result you get when you search "solar power". As you can see there are some mix collections among us talking about solar system which may interests people who search for "solar power" less, but at the early stage it's understandable, after all there aren't so many collections on such a not-so-popular topic yet. So after a few weeks' persistent "collecting" I made my way from the middle to the top with 19 items and a view count of 189, really not much, but it's just a beginning.

So this is a tool that empowers users to customize their own "magazine", choosing from the sources they discover and trust. It's a grass-root to grass-root platform yet everything can look so elegant and beautiful, it's great way to share hobbies and interests and knowledge with people on the Internet, not to mention the potential marketing value: if you control a big collection with many followers you can choose whose content to promote or even sneak in your own stuff along the way from time to time.

Now go wake it up and see if there's somebody collected your favorite topics? Or maybe find your own niche to build the best collection of the kind?
Link to the website here: Wakelet