Snowball aims to make your life easier by aggregating all your messages from various chat applications in one place. Will that be enough to make it take off?…
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BuzzFeed and Time magazine: The next big thing always starts out looking like a toy, and media is no exception
In an internal memo, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti compares his upstart media company to the venerable newsmagazine Time. Is there any truth to this comparison? More than some members of the mainstream media would probably like to admit…
Read MoreFlipping out over aggregation
A conceptual problem arises from thinking about Flipboard in publishing terms (an error Flipboard itself encourages), when its actual role in the value chain is much closer to that of a traditional re-seller of goods, in this case news content.…
Read MoreMeet the man who is building a hyperlocal aggregation platform for the Chicago Sun-Times
The new owners of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper group have invested in a hyperlocal news-aggregation startup called Aggrego, which founder Tim Landon says is trying to create a better model for local journalism.…
Read MoreGerman publishers opt to be Googled — for now
Google has agreed to make indirect payments to publishers in Belgium and France, largely to forestall moves toward stricter sanctions on aggregation. But paying publishers directly, presumably on some sort of per-use or pro-rata basis, might be a bridge too far.…
Read MoreAggregation aggravation
A federal district court in New York last week handed publishers a major victory in a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press against online clipping service Meltwater News. In an unusually sweeping ruling, Judge Denise Cote held that not all uses of copyrighted content in search results automatically qualify as fair use.…
Read MoreTwo ways the new Flipboard could disrupt media: Advertising and revenue sharing
Flipboard's new curation tools for creating custom magazines may appeal to individual users, but they will likely also appeal to advertisers and other brands -- and therein lies the potential for real media disruption.…
Read MoreWhy a LinkedIn acquisition of Pulse would make sense — content requires context
If LinkedIn were to buy the Pulse news-recommendation app -- something a number of reports say could be in the works -- it would give the corporate social network a powerful way of filtering content for its users.…
Read MoreBusiness Insider vs. Digiday: One man’s aggregation is another man’s traffic hijacking
Some call it aggregation, while others call it copyright infringement or even theft. In a recent Twitter debate sparked by a post on the topic, Digiday's editor-in-chief and Business Insider founder Henry Blodget traded theories.…
Read MorePaying to aggregate
It's easy to understand why Google would want to disguise what's going on in Europe through one gimmick or another. But it sure looks like a precedent is getting established in Europe for paying to link.…
Read MoreParagraph launches an aggregated lit mag for the iPad age
A new iPad magazine called Paragraph Shorts curates the "best short stories" from across the web and presents them in a Flipboard-like interface. The free app aims to add value through curation, introducing readers to authors and publications they might not have known about otherwise.…
Read MorePinning the NY Times
As with Ricochet, the Times' new platform for allowing brands to aggregate Times content and wrap it in their own advertising that I wrote about last week, it's not hard to see how Compendium could also become a platform for brands to leverage custom aggregation of Times content for their own social media brand building efforts.…
Read MoreWhy big data could sink Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’
A report by Europe's cybersecurity agency points out several flaws with the proposed 'right to be forgotten'. A big one has to do with the challenges presented by the increasing use of aggregated data.…
Read MoreSamsung invests $5M in 4G data-triage startup Stoke
Mobile data gateway maker Stoke already has some impressive investors from the telecom world, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and India’s Reliance Communications, but it’s adding a third. Samsung is making a $5 million strategic investment, betting that its LTE triage and security technology has a bright future.…
Read MoreTechnology, middlemen and the future of news
The internet is supposed to be about the end of intermediaries. Then why are middlemen so successful? For years, aggregators have ruled the content space and now a new breed of brokers is using technology to redefine the interaction between readers and publishers.…
Read MoreInstapaper, Readability and monetizing other people’s content
There's been a lot of criticism of Readability for collecting money from readers who use its ad-stripping service. But its approach is actually better than some others -- and that desire on the part of readers is something publishers need to figure out how to accommodate.…
Read MoreIf you have news, it will be aggregated and/or curated
One thing that becomes clear from the latest Pew report on the state of media is just how big a role aggregators -- both human and machine-powered -- are playing in news consumption. That is both a danger and an opportunity for mainstream media players.…
Read MoreIt’s not curation or aggregation, it’s just how the Internet works
Attempts to impose a "code of conduct" for curators and aggregators or promote the use of special symbols for giving credit may be well-intentioned, but they are also misguided and likely doomed, just as every other attempt to control the Internet or the blogosphere has been.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Do curation sites such as this page need a code of conduct? The idea unexpectedly emerged as a hot topic of conversation…
Read MoreAre aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question
There's been a lot of debate about whether a Forbes blog post that excerpted and summarized a New York Times story qualifies as journalism or not -- but to some extent that's a red herring. The only question that matters is whether the reader is served.…
Read MoreHow the Huffington Post became a new-media behemoth
In addition to some eye-popping figures for page views and unique visitors, the latest Huffington Post statistics show that if there's one thing the site knows how to do, it's how to get reader engagement that other news sites and publishers can only dream of.…
Read MoreCritics of HuffPo news “theft” are missing the point
The Huffington Post is facing new accusations that its writers "steal" content from other media outlets by aggregating it. Not only are these charges argubly untrue, but content companies that complain about this kind of "over-aggregation" are missing the point about how news works now.…
Read MoreHartford Courant Settles Copyright And Hot News Claims
The Hartford Courant, which provoked a lawsuit over an ill-fated aggregation experiment, quietly settled the case last week. The settlement……
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Yahoo is not exactly dealing from strength these says, and the broadcast network news ooperations are well-past their glory days. So it’s…
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