Last week, several media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter targeting the iPad app Zite, which aggregates news based on a user’s Twitter and Google Reader activity. It may not be legal or fair for apps like Zite to collect content and present it absent the originator’s advertisements, but many observers argue that this is where the industry is headed, whether anyone likes it or not. “Readers are looking for better ways of consuming content, and they aren’t getting it from traditional publishers,” says GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram. “Why not learn from Zite and others like it instead of threatening to sue them?”
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Road to Curation Nation a Bumpy One
Posted by: Sonia Arrison April 6, 2011 05:00 AMLast week, several media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter targeting the iPad app Zite, which aggregates news based on a user’s Twitter and Google Reader activity. It may not be legal or fair for apps like Zite to collect content and present it absent the originator’s advertisements, but many observers argue that this is where the industry is headed, whether anyone likes it or not. “Readers are looking for better ways of consuming content, and they aren’t getting it from traditional publishers,” says GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram. “Why not learn from Zite and others like it instead of threatening to sue them?”