In the United States, a number of publishers, including The New York Times Co., recently joined together to introduce a system called NewsRight, which tracks the unpaid online use of their articles and seeks to turn aggregators into licensed, paying customers.
Each disseminator classifies the received aggregators into three possible classes: (i) exploited, (ii) unexploited and (iii) outdated.
So now we have FriendFeedFeed, to "Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!" Awesome.
Or put simply, it's a UK politics news aggregator divided into categories: Economy, Europe & Foreign Affairs, Education, Environment, Society and Health.
The manner in which sexual harassment stories are dealt with by the media cycle has a similar effect – they are reported and chewed up by aggregators, turned into a trending topic and joked about by people who feel they're above the fray.
That social networking aggregator is built into their iPad application, which is currently the second most popular social networking iPad app after Twitterific.
Fwix, which started out as a hyperlocal news aggregator, is metamorphosing into an enterprise-facing company called Radius that gives salespeople the tools and data they need to scout local businesses.
Your local finance company or bank, which extended those mortgages, later resold them to an aggregator who put them into big packages with thousands of other subprime mortgages.
Offloading the worst assets into an aggregator fund would still leave banks with loan books under pressure from rising defaults.
