by Jason Wilk on December 3, 2008
- TechMeme is an automated news site that aggregates and ranks breaking tech stories based on incoming link quantity and source power, is changing their ways.
- Founder, Gabe Rivera today in a blog post said that the system isn’t working anymore, at least not for certain topics that he uses his algorithms for, like Celebrity News (WeSmirch)
- To combat the problem, Gabe has hired Megan McCarthy, formerly of Wired to come on board and manually intervene in how stories appear and rank.
- Some think that this is the demise of TechMeme, which could carry over to Google Blog Search and others which use a similar ranking system.
- I think the site does fine for now. Adding someone in to manually intervene may make the system better, but is it cost benficial? Probably not. I don’t think this will help the readership.
- There is one problem I have with TechMeme though that could use some help. I have emailed Gabe and the sales team about 15 times now to be added into the TechMeme feed and have gotten no response. It has become quite frustrating dealing with the slow process and no-replys coming out of the site.
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by glu on October 1, 2008
- Techmeme, Memeorandum and other memelike services identify and aggregate upcoming trends from around the web at a pace much closer to real-time than other news aggregators or social news sites.
- Google has entered the game and will most likely leverage its Google News power to strengthen the new meme interface on GoogleBlogsearch.
Will you leave the familiarity and consistentcy of Techmeme for Google’s raw power?
TC
by David Heyerman on October 1, 2008
- Google just launched their latest blog news aggregator @ http://www.blogsearch.google.com
- The blog search pulls the top stories from business, politics, tech and entertainment.
- If your blog isn’t being tracked, submit it here.
Mashable
by Jason Wilk on September 5, 2008
- Veritocracy is a new social news site that lets users vote on finding the best related stories by topic. (If TechMeme had Digg functionality)
- If Mashable, GigaOm and TechCrunch write on the same topic, users can vote to push whichever variation they liked the best to the top.
- If you always vote down the news sources whos stance on issues you disagree with, the engine will stop displaying from that publisher.
- By learning your taste, it should make for more enjoyable reading and help publishers realize their target demo.
Would you go throug the trouble of reading and voting on multiple article posts to see which is best?
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