Content aggregation is a sometimes controversial, but increasingly accepted practice among eMedia companies. As aggregation evolves from straight RSS feeds to emphasize context and value-added analysis of third-party information, what's the right approach for your publication? These resources should help jump-start your thought process. As always, we welcome your feedback.
Most aggregation apps go wide. The Magazine Channel from Publishers Press goes deep by aggregating licensed content from a variety of special-interest publishers in categories such as landscaping, travel, hunting/fishing and healthcare.
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Yahoo and ABC News are partnering to take on CNN and other online news portals like The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. Combining strong content with incredible reach is a win-win strategy for advertisers and content companies alike and should be looked at as a model for niche publishers as well. Full Story
XYDO is the latest social news aggregation service, aiming to prioritize news based on a user's social networks. Here's how media organizations can use it to monitor and market content. Full Story
News360 co-founder Roman Karachinsky discusses how his tool differentiates itself in an ever-expanding world of aggregation apps. Are publishers doing enough to embrace this new world of content consumption? Full Story
Can media companies better control and leverage the jungle of press releases and announcements they receive every day? A service called noodls offers tools to help. Full Story
Next week Twitter, with a valuation of over $10 billion, turns five. Users send a billion tweets a week and about 140 million tweets a day. Are you getting the most out of Twitter? Full Story
Media companies are launching their own Flipboard-like experiments in personalized news apps and channels that incorporate social aggregation. Which ones will work?
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Storify is a social media curation platform that holds promise for easily finding and assembling topic-specific content. Here's how the author used Storify to create this post. Full Story
Techmeme and sister site Mediagazer plant to start aggregating tweets as a launching point for more conversations. What does the move mean for digital publishers? Full Story