But when we focus on the aggregate things look different.
The left sidebar aggregates things like email, stocks, weather, and eBay listings.
Services like Spotflux offer a decidedly cheaper but less fully-featured experience for the average web user, ensuring that, on the aggregate, things that need to be kept in the dark (passwords, credit cards, and the like) will be kept in the dark.
TechBlip is not going to displace TechMeme any time soon, but most of the other Blips address under-served or highly-focused niches: AnimeBlips, CricketBlips, CraftBlips, GuitarWorldBlips, MommyBlips, etc. Niche news aggregation is one thing, but then aggregating the aggregators gives Future the scale to sell ads across all of the Blips.
Aggregating is one thing, but you can't write a 72-point headline that merely links to the Rolling Stone site and call it journalism.
I understand why my colleague George Packer, who's one of the best journalists around, is resistant to Twitter or anything else that induces him to spend time staring at a screen and reading other people's accounts of things and aggregating those accounts, or aggregating their aggregators.
None were aggregating the fares for things like taxis, trains, buses, ferries, shuttles, limos, and other means of ground transportation, which, as any seasoned traveler could tell you, can often be quite pricey.
For the benefit of any other TechCrunch readers who are struggling to keep up, I thought it might be useful to write a quick post aggregating all of the things that – according to us – are now officially dead.
Guy Kawasaki, a fan of all things aggregated, is an adviser.
The company's core users are startup CEOs, founders and office managers, Freedman says, so in order to add value beyond moving day, 42Floors launched "Showroom" earlier this year — a marketplace that aims to aggregate all the things businesses may want after they sign a lease and begin their move.
