Sometime it is hard for me to differentiate between innovate or re-invent or copycat especially when it come to creative idea in global space like internet or mobile internet.
For example, we create a ‘google/yahoo-news-like’ portal that specified for local news contents http://rangkum.com
The idea was discussed during lunch time with my ‘love-to-parse’ working buddy; Azis. We were discussing why google/yahoo seem not too bother with content localization especially to Bahasa Indonesia. Our discussion then become more specifically to news product and how we need to open more than one tab / windows just to cover all local news in Bahasa.
I believe many commuters don’t really have time to read newspaper or read internet news in their office. From our point of view, news will have meaning to the readers if only they really interesting after read its headline.
Then, with respect to Google and Yahoo!; we create rangkum.com . A news portal that gather local news sites in Bahasa Indonesia.
Do we violate intellectual property? off course no 
We honor them, that’s why we just take the headlines and some sentences of the news in order to update our readers to hot topics about Indonesia. If they interested to read more about the news, they can click a link then it will redirect them to the source of content owner sites.
Although we still on progress on do the web-semantic thing in our rangkum.com-beta portal and enhance it with more personalize functionality, we got positive feedback from our friends. I really hope our work can be useful to others too.
Hmmm … good idea, but you have a lot to work on … any algorithm involved? Digg or Mixx method to deliver news?
If just being an aggregator, everyone can do it … put some special twist, like semantic in Indonesia.
*Going to TKP now ..
Met kenal btw
the portal definitely will be evolved; there are 2 approach;
1. technical; although we might not get to Bahasa Indonesia semantic (that can be a topic for a master degree…. :p)that fast, but we try to organize them using our simple content categorization method. But don’t worry, we have set our dream that high…
2. business; there are some services that we will deliver to our users as a value added for this service. Personalized definitely one of the services we offer to our users.
so stay tune! and make http://rangkum.com as your main ‘headline browsing’ portal. It will come even more handy if you access it through your mobile phone.
thank you for your comment and suggestion
Hmmm…it is very helpful. Thanks, Hiro!