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October 05, 2005

The New Aggregators

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Posted by Alex Williams

A new breed of aggregators are emerging with the advent of podcasting and the audio/video experience we are witnessing on the web. Fluctu8 is one of the more recent new aggregators in the space that I've run across.

Of note in all of this is the consolidation in the aggregator business with Newsgator now the undeniable gorilla with its announcement today that it has acquired NetNewsWire.

What will this do to aggregators like Bloglines, a solid aggregator, but seeming to be a bit less of interest among the A-list bloggers, who are playing therse days with the new generation of newsreaders such as Rojo, Fireant and attensa.

I wonder how this market will emerge now with the increasing use of audio and video by people who are both creating and consuming media on the web.

Will there be a few big players? Sure. But the world of remix is not just limited to the music world. We are already seeing constellations of different social applicaitons that will be hybrid aggregators, wiki's, photo sharing services, recommendation tools, etc. Providing the service to make these new apps seems to be the gist of what Ning is doing.

Ning, if you have not already heard, is offering a free online service for for building and using social applications. Ning is funded by Marc Andresson's venture group, 24 Hour Laundry.

Here are some of the ideas Ning has for what people can do. One suggestion is to build a podcast review app. Seems like they are doing what any good online service does and that's getting the community to create and build it themselves.

No doubt, constellations are forming. Now all you have to do is become a star.

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