http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/is-flipboard-legal/

agreement to get this type of app launched. The user experience is better than any rss feed reader out there currently. but flipboard scrapes sites and thats the problem. But it doesn’t need to if we supported it now it exists. If some kind of new rss tags could be invented for people to define how much information flipboard and other similar services are aloud to take from your feed or site, or are served when identified by the server. This could really be the boost rss needs to get back on track and become mainstream finally.

Now to solve the advertising problem. Simple add tags to the feed that pulls in the correct ad server url for the correct banner campaign when it see’s what the app/service/browser is, then these services just integrate the banners (standard sizes) in the pages, if they are required to be attached legally with that article or page. They are styling and positioning all this other information. Ads would be no problem. Think of similar services on you tv and phone etc. just with different styling and the correct ads. I don’t mind ads. Everyones got to make a living. It is the way of the world. Even though I’d prefer not to have the ads, it’s a necessary evil for now. But users and business will have the choice of exactly how much to show and what to show with it alongside, and that will make everyone happy, job done, for everyone.

People will follow the rules, someone just needs to create some, but who, w3c? Who looks after rss standards? Dave Winer?

Whoever it is. For now flipboard is a great service and I suggest you install it and try it out now. As it’s so popular, you have to queue to activate your Twitter and Facebook feeds. And these are the best feature. A great way to get all the information you need, if you follow and are friends with people who have similar tastes and interests and report on news you want to know about.

Simple, but brilliant way to consume information. And is the start of the future way we will all be looking at our custom data.

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