Is the content passing through Flipboards servers before being sent to users iPads?
Doll: The content parser runs on Flipboard’s servers. It simply wouldn’t be possible to run on the client for reasons of speed and complexity. • Is the scraper universal/generic, or are there customer scrapers for certain sites? Doll: It is mostly universal/generic. However, we can limit the amount of content displayed on a site-specific basis. We already try to do this with some sites that publish extremely abbreviated RSS feeds- even though we aren’t using RSS directly, we attempt to achieve display parity with their feed. We’re happy to accommodate the requests of any content publisher who want to choose how much content to show in Flipboard, or to hide their site’s content altogether. • What is the rationale for scraping content? I presume you guys are claiming a reasonable system under fair use, but what is Flipboard’s policy? Doll: Flipboard shows short content previews. We do not offer a “full article” view in Flipboard for articles of arbitrary length. If the user wants to read
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