New site for technical content: Curah!

Microsoft has created a new web site for sharing knowledge about its products and technologies. The site is called Curah! and it's available at curah.microsoft.com. For instance, you could find IT pro and developer information from the site in a nice, short "tips" and pointers to more elaborate talks. If nothing else, this kind of site is fresh thinking: it's not a forum, not a blog, and not wiki. Instead, Microsoft calls it a "curation site".

Since the term "curation" isn't very common in software development parlance, a quick definition is on order. Shortly put, curation is the process of finding the gems from a large amount of information, and distilling those small pieces of information into useful insight.

If you are interested in learning more, check out the Curah! wiki page.