Did any startups do serious work on this?
These two articles today reminded me about it:
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/21/read-all-about-it-great-american-newspapers-headed-for-oblivion/?iid=A_F_News
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/21/news-aggregators-score-a-big-win/?iid=A_F_News