Our competitors are harnessing technology to revolutionise the news business through aggregation, personalisation and social media.
Fundamentally, he argued that the aggregation business is "a commodity".
Say what you will about The Huffington Post and AOL, their merger has given HuffPo the resources to conquer the online news aggregation business.
The combination of a market-leading aggregator with a comprehensive PFM tool creates a flywheel effect where success begets success, particularly with a major head start in the lending aggregation business. .
The company started as a video commenting platform for blogs, moved into the desktop client social aggregation business and with Twitter's recent redesign jumped into the plugin (aka, longtail) and enterprise user space (see recent partnership with SalesForce.com and plugin announcements).
(It takes a huge investment to build a factory, buy the equipment and supplies, and hire the people required to make automobiles, trains, or other goods. The corporate form of a business enables this aggregation of funds from multiple investors).
All of the above -- the original content that drives the entire business and the aggregation that sends readers out into the world of news and information -- helps to build an architecture that enables thousands of other people to have a space to come and write and play and inform and start conversations.
By offering it to users for free, it undercut, and ultimately eliminated, all substantial competitors in the news-aggregation business.
Data aggregation and business intelligence can help executives collate knowledge and identify trends, but only if the requirement for service improvement is well defined.
The second half of Motion Math's business will be the aggregation of the data it collects from users playing the game.
It is worth stressing that the capital substitution for labour is largely not through "machines" but through intangibles such as intellectual property (IP), business models, algorithms, data aggregations and now also digital currencies.
