Aggregation system

An aggregation apparatus comprising:

• a computer system including a computer, networking hardware connecting the computer to the Internet, and a memory storing executable instructions, which when executed, enable the computer system to perform the operations of:
• connecting to a plurality of sites on the Internet;
• authenticating itself with each of the sites;
• retrieving information from each of the sites;
• parsing the information from each of the sites so as to produce an aggregation of the parsed information, wherein the aggregation is produced at least in part on a client side of a client-server system;
• and
• renders the aggregation as output.

An aggregation apparatus comprising:

• a computer system including a computer, networking hardware connecting the computer to the Internet, and a memory storing executable instructions, which when executed, enable the computer system to perform the operations of:
• connecting to a plurality of sites on the Internet;
• authenticating itself with each of the sites;
• retrieving information from each of the sites;
• parsing the information from each of the sites so as to produce an aggregation of the parsed information, wherein the aggregation is not a server-side produced aggregation;
• and
• renders the aggregation as output.

An end-user computer system, the system comprising:

• a computer, networking hardware connecting the computer to the Internet, and a memory storing executable instructions which when executed, enable the end-user computer system to perform the operations of:
• connecting to a plurality of sites on the Internet;
• authenticating itself with each of the sites;
• retrieving information from each of the sites;
• parsing the information from each of the sites so as to produce an aggregation of the parsed information, wherein the aggregation is produced at the end-user computer system;
• and
• rendering the aggregation as output.