Where content curation traffic comes from and 4 ways to increase yours. http://blog.scoop.it/wp-uploads/2014/03/traffic-night.jpg Content curation is not just collecting, it’s also sharing. And whatever our motivation, we curate content to have an impact so understanding where our traffic comes from is important. During our first 2 years of existence, the Scoop.it users have published more than 50M pieces of content attracting more than 100M unique visitors so we’ve been in a great position to observe not only where this traffic came from but also what best practices had the strongest influence on it. So we’ve analyzed all the content curated, published and shared through Scoop.it. This post is about sharing these data and learning's so you can be more effective with your content curation. Content Curation traffic: SEO vs. Social Media First, let’s look at the general distribution of traffic sources to Scoop.it topics: http://blog.scoop.it/2014/03/06/where-content-curation-traffic-comes-from-and-4-ways-to-increase-yours/

How Top Style Bloggers Are Earning $1 Million A Year

Writing headlines like “All Aboard the Brooklyn Bound Christian Dior Ferry” and posting photos of yourself in cute designer clothes can now earn you up to $1 million a year. Top style bloggers are joining the 1%,reports Women's Wear Daily, with some earning as much as, say, neurosurgeons might hope to make after years of medical school.

Eager to drive sales, luxury brands and retailers are offering outsize appearance fees to Internet-famous trendsetters. Fees have gone up from a minimum of $5,000 five years ago to $10,000 to $15,000 today, WWD reports. On top of that, bloggers earn money from affiliate sales (essentially, commissions from retailers for online customer referrals); brand collaborations (which usually involve teaming up with designers on capsule collections); launching their own clothing collections; and ad revenue from their sites. All that can add up to seven-figure annual incomes, WWD says. Bloggers are becoming brands in themselves, turning their musings on fashion--often born as personal hobbies--into businesses.

One of the most charismatic of these bloggers is 32-year-old Bryan Grey-Yambao, of Bryanboy. Though he's not a millionaire just yet, he says he makes enough to “live comfortably and be able to not wear samples and buy my clothes retail." Comfortably enough, in fact, to have been able to turn down a six-figure editorial job offer from a major publication, as well as an offer from a major brand to design three bags for $75,000. Last year, he was paid $40,000 to show up at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Bangkok’s Siam Center.

Smart people are doing amazing things! Just IMAGINE the profit motive and like all things as popularity increases the costs will fall. Making it available to more people in the future.

The end of transplant waiting lists? Researchers reveal ‘giant leap’ in printing replacement organs - and say they could soon be created on demand in hospitals

• Researchers can print vascular system inside organs to pass blood through them
• Could allow damaged organs to simply be 3d printed in hospital and implanted

By MARK PRIGG

PUBLISHED: 17:56 EST, 2 July 2014 | UPDATED: 19:15 EST, 2 July 2014

Researchers claim to have made a 'giant leap' towards creating 3D organs that could be simply printed out in hospitals when needed for a transplant.

An international team have created the first organs that include a full vascular network for transporting blood through organs.

They say it could even allows organs damaged by cancer to simply replaced.

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Scientists from the Universities of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT have now bio-printed artificial vascular networks mimicking the body's circulatory system that are necessary for growing large complex tissues.

'Thousands of people die each year due to a lack of organs for transplantation," says study lead author and University of Sydney researcher, Dr Luiz Bertassoni.

'Many more are subjected to the surgical removal of tissues and organs due to cancer, or they're involved in accidents with large fractures and injuries.

'Imagine being able to walk into a hospital and have a full organ printed – or bio-printed, as we call it – with all the cells, proteins and blood vessels in the right place, simply by pushing the 'print' button in your computer screen.

'We are still far away from that, but our research is addressing exactly that.

'Our finding is an important new step towards achieving these goals.

'At the moment, we are pretty much printing 'prototypes' that, as we improve, will eventually be used to change the way we treat patients worldwide.'

Cells need ready access to nutrients, oxygen and an effective 'waste disposal' system to sustain life. This is why 'vascularisation' – a functional transportation system – is central to the engineering of biological tissues and organs.

'One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries,' says Dr Bertassoni.

'Cells die without an adequate blood supply because blood supplies oxygen that's necessary for cells to grow and perform a range of functions in the body.

'To illustrate the scale and complexity of the bio-engineering challenge we face, consider that every cell in the body is just a hair's width from a supply of oxygenated blood.

'Replicating the complexity of these networks has been a stumbling block preventing tissue engineering from becoming a real world clinical application.'

According to Dr Bertassoni, a major benefit of the new bio-printing technique is the ability to fabricate large three-dimensional micro-vascular channels capable of supporting life on the fly, with enough precision to match individual patients' needs.

'While recreating little parts of tissues in the lab is something that we have already been able to do, the possibility of printing three-dimensional tissues with functional blood capillaries in the blink of an eye is a game changer,' he says.

'Of course, simplified regenerative materials have long been available, but true regeneration of complex and functional organs is what doctors really want and patients really need, and this is the objective of our work.'

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This sounds very interesting..will look forward to your personal review of this new app..