I created popurls (aka the mother of aggregators) in 2005 (acquired 2010) and within those years I've had exactly three requests from publishers who wanted to be removed from the site – compared to a few thousand who wanted to be included, i.e. aggregated. Go figure.
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Please excuse me as I may be misunderstanding, but doesn't popurl just show a news summary?
It would seem to me the case of flipboard is quite different, instead of driving traffic it actively decreases it.
That's correct, but the underlying philosophy of making money off of someone else's content still applies.
To quote Andy Warhol:
"I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product.
But then they always say that they're helping you, and that's true too, but still, if people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven't figured it out fully yet."
Holy smokes! Popurls! That brings me back. Congrats on the exit. That was a really nice product. (And probably still is.) I haven't used in years, but it was my go to for a long time.
popurls brings you to the content on their site though, so it's kind of apples and oranges.
and your mobile shiz is funked up.