1. A method comprising: creating capture templates to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms in a network; after creating the capture templates, acquiring original content and selectively extracting parts of interest from the original content from the disparate content sources on multiple platforms in the network using the created capture templates, wherein the created capture templates control the acquisition and extraction process; generating a standardized data stream from the extraction process and incoming content sources; and providing the standardized data stream for optimized display on one or more different types of platforms.