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CNN's $20M Hedge On Zite Values Aggregation Biz Over Original News

CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week. But if you use it, odds are you won't get CNN's original news. So what's CNN getting for its money? READ»

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Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

For website content publishers and content creators, there’s a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, ...READ»

Microsoft's Spindex Wants to Aggregate Your Social Net Wranglings So You Don't Have To

One name missing from the latest wave of social networking is Microsoft, which may be why it's pushing its new Spindex service onto the world. Instead of being a social net by itself, it aggregates your online life for you, making it ...READ»

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A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io

Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; FriendFeed, for example, pulls together just a few services, but does ...READ»

Mozilla's Raindrop: Chasing Google's Wave, or Damping Digital Noise?

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot ...READ»

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Nova Spivack's Twine Is Red-Hot

Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info.READ»