Re: [syndication] "Ruling May Mean Trouble for Web Aggregators"

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Carmen, this subject came up at WWW9 in the web publishing track.

David Galbraith of Moreover.Com said that some of the companies they're
scraping pay them to do it.

They also received an investment from an interesting company, not sure if
this is public, but when it does come public you'll see that their
technology probably does have a future.

Imho, it's a bootstrap, a proof of concept for a business model, and once
the publishers tune into it, they'll support it directly. Kind of like
Napster, but more quiet, which is cool.

Dave