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| Jul 4, 2012 | Three Startups Defending Democracy In America: Votizen, Memeorandum, and NationBuilder | The USA was founded by entrepreneurs who said “England has become bloated with bureaucracy. Let’s disrupt it by starting our own agile, more innovative nation.” But on the country’s 236th birthday, we find some democracy’s machinery needs a... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | Twitter’s Censorship Policy: Three Unanswered Questions | In June of 2009, leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Chinese government blocked access by its citizens to Twitter, Flickr and a number of other US-based websites. Social media being already widespread th... |
| Jan 26, 2012 | The New Techmeme Design: Plus Your World, Minus Underlined Links | In a world of personalized, distributed information sharing, Techmeme and its sister sites have successfully gone the opposite direction. They’re machine-powered, human-controlled news aggregators that have readers — especially media types ... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Ron Paul Is The Second Most Popular Republican Candidate On Facebook (And He’s Gaining) | I know there are lots of people out there who have passionate feelings about Ron Paul. He’s a principled and independent fighter for old-time American values, or a conspiracy theorist loon, or someone who let idiotic racist stuff get publis... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | The Top Political Stories On Facebook In 2011 Were Sensationalized, Polarized And Mostly Mainstream | Facebook has released a list of the most popular US political news stories among its users over the past year. It’s a pretty depressing read if you’re idealistic like me, and wish that more people would listen to the other side more often b... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | CNN’s Social Media Pioneer Gets Fired: What Happens to Rick Sanchez on Twitter? | CNN host Rick Sanchez has more than 140,000 followers on Twitter but is now out of a job. The controversial but creative TV personality interacted live on the air with Twitter and Facebook users, but it was good old fashioned radio where he... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | Foursquare Launches Location Layers – This is Big | Looking at life through rose-colored glasses? How about walking through your town and seeing it as the Huffington Post or the Independent Film Channel sees it? IFC announced a new campaign this morning with leading location-based social net... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mediagazer launches as the Techmeme of media | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera just launched ... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mediagazer: Techmeme Launches Memetracker for Media News | Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera just launchedMediagazer, a new memetracker for topics related to media news. This new site will be based on the same technology as Techmeme, memeorandum, the gossip site WeSmich and the baseball memetracker Ball... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mediagazer launches as the Techmeme of media | Today Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera just launched Mediagazer, his latest news aggregator. The site will cover the latest media news, from the production side, to distribution and new technologies.
Mediagazer features the same hybrid approach... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mediagazer: Techmeme's Editors Will Help Us Watch The Death Of Print; Find What's Next | To many in the industry, Techmeme is hands down the best aggregator of technology news. So it makes sense that they’d try to take their combination of algorithms and editors to other verticals. But they’ve tried in the past, and it hasn’t w... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Everybody Forgets The Readers When They Bash News Aggregators | I remember way back before the Internet when I got most of my daily news via the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN. If it wasn’t reported by either of those outlets, there was a good chance I wouldn’t hear that news at all.
Those days are ove... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | BlogTalkRadio Will Have A Huge Guest This Week: President Obama | BlogTalkRadio is a popular podcasting site with about 4.5 million listeners a month. And it’s no stranger to large-scale live podcasts, as some pull in more than 20,000 listeners while they’re going on. But on Wednesday, the service is like... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Decontructing Media Bias: FairSpin Twitter Launches | Political news has always contained its fair share of media bias. After all, legislation has the ability to shape our social, cultural and economic landscape for years after its been introduced. Millions of people have a stake in that level... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | FriendFeed Blocked In Iran, The Service's Most Active Region | By now, you’ve probably heard all about the controversy surrounding the Iranian election and subsequent protests. If not, check here for a solid roundup. And you’ve probably also heard how this has spilled over into the tech world because T... |
| May 27, 2009 | FairSpin looks for media bias on Twitter | A new site called FairSpin wants to help users visualize and weigh-in on the biases of political news and commentary — and today it unveiled a new feature that takes the same approach to messages on microblogging site Twitter.
FairSpin pull... |
| May 15, 2009 | Google improves Blog Search, but not by much | Google Blog Search just got a few upgrades — it apparently wants to become more like algorithm-driven news aggregator Techmeme, before that site let in the humans. Specifically, Blog Search has added more items to its “clusters” of stories ... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Fairspin Teases Out The Bias In Political News | Every news source has its bias, and that is especially true for political news. The same story on the Huffington Post is more likely to have a liberal slant than something on Fox News. Most people figure out which news sources share politic... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | SXSW Panel: Beyond Aggregation | One of the more popular panels at SXSW Interactive this year was one called Beyond Aggregation. The panel included our very own Marshall Kirkpatrick, as well as Gabe Rivera (Techmeme), Louis Gray (LouisGray.com), Melanie Baker (PostRank) an... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | The 50 Media Sites Bloggers Link To The Most | Media search engine Technorati is about to release The Technorati Attention Index, which measures the mainstream media websites with the highest number of blogs linking to them in the past 30 days. Right now it has a blog post with the inau... |
| Feb 16, 2009 | 5 Online Political Resources Everyone Should Know About | It’s Presidents Day here in the United States but for most people it’s just a day off work. Cynics, fair-weather political watchers, “Joe Six Packs” (did you want to avoid hearing that phrase again?) – we present to you below some of our fa... |
| Dec 3, 2008 | News aggregator Techmeme melds algorithms and humans | News aggregator Techmeme is perhaps the fastest way to find interesting tech news — it takes minutes to find and link to breaking stories, as opposed to the hours or days that rivals like Digg or Google News take. That’s one reason why tech... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content | Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market this evening. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you d... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Here are the election sites I’m twitchily refreshing every minute | Yeah, this post will likely be completely uninteresting in a few hours.
But for those of us living in the moment, online….
Data analysis sites:
Pollster.com — Live poll analysis and map
Five Thirty Eight — Live poll analysis
Google’s live m... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | YouTube and PBS ask you to document November 4th voting problems | YouTube and public TV network PBS are asking voters to “Video your vote” — or to film themselves while voting during the November 4th election.
The not-so-subtle subtext here is that there has been a bunch of controversy about voter registr... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites | What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter been working on since leaving Yahoo last June? At least one project is a GreaseMonkey script that shows readers the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, a news... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs | Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It’s an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias of past linking behavior on blogs aggregat... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Google Launches Its Own Memetracker | Google has just launched a new homepage for its blog search that bears a strong resemblance to Techmeme, Memeorandum and their “memetracker” counterparts. The site displays a listing of the top stories from across a variety of topics includ... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | Obama to Announce VP By SMS, Email | You know it’s a new era when a US Presidential candidate plans to make a major announcement using a new technology. The campaign of Barack Obama has announced on the blog for its social network that it will be announcing Obama’s Vice Presid... |
| Aug 8, 2008 | Roundup: MySpace virtual currencies, the Russian invasion, and more | Here’s the latest action:
MySpace apps also making money from virtual currencies — We’ve covered how some Facebook application developers are making seven figures through virtual goods and currencies. Offerpal, a company that offers adverti... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | Democrats and Republicans fight about making the web more accessible to congress — at least they’re trying | Republicans in the House of Representatives have been going around for the last couple of weeks, accusing Democrats of trying to censor the free speech rights of any House member. I’ve been trying to figure out what’s really going on throug... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | YouTube launches reporter channel, in time for presidential race | YouTube is launching a new “Reporter” channel, featuring a variety of news related videos submitted by anyone, from amateurs to professionals.
The Google-owned company has been building out its role in the political world already, having co... |
| May 21, 2008 | ACLU Joins In On Media Ownership Hysteria | I’ve said before that I have trouble understanding what all the fuss is about with media consolidation. At a time when there’s an unprecedented explosion of new voices on the Internet, it’s difficult to get worked up about rule changes that... |
| May 20, 2008 | TechMeme Finally Adds Search | Tech news site TechMeme launched on September 12, 2005. It was an immediate hit and remains the most important blog news aggregator: Dan Farber wrote perhaps the best description of the site to date, back in 2007: “TechMeme provides a one-p... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba | Here’s a test for Web 2.0. Cuba’s Fidel Castro announced yesterday morning that he is resigning from his post as ruler of that communist country. What better way to celebrate the departure of an authoritarian dictator than to look at how th... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues | Last week I wrote asking for reader input into the questions we would ask Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008, in an upcoming interview. Thanks to the great feedback in the comments, we were able to put togeth... |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Memeorandum Leaderboard Shows Mainstream Media Leading In Political Coverage | Gabe Rivera’s latest leaderboard product Memeorandum Leaderboard is now live with some interesting results for the political blogosphere.
According to the list, based on story headlines on Memeorandum the New York Times, Washington Post and... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | TechMeme Leaderboard In Context + New Verticals On The Way | Techmeme’s new popular list product Leaderboard launched today, and the reaction has been interesting. Some are suggesting that it’s not a representative list, others (well Scoble) are suggesting that it is the death of blogs.
First the big... |
| Sep 30, 2007 | Techmeme Launching Leaderboard; World Likely to Keep Turning | TechCrunch has the scoop on a big new feature launching tomorrow evening at the tech-blog meme aggregator Techmeme (minus buzz words, it’s a news tracking site). The new Techmeme leaderboard will list the top 100 blogs that have appeared as... |
| Sep 30, 2007 | Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold | Update: The leaderboard has launched. See it here.
Blog search engine Technorati’s founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors like Google Blog Search, Ask.com... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million | Yahoo is purchasing a news aggregation site called BuzzTracker for $5 million according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.
Buzztracker uses algorithms to search through over 110,000 hand-picked web sites, aggregating the most popular and intere... |
| Jan 2, 2007 | 2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without | A year ago I wrote a post called “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without” and listed thirteen startups whose products made a real impact in my life. Those were the products that I loved, and used every day. I enjoyed sorting through the ... |
| Dec 11, 2006 | TechMeme Opens Archives | Popular blog news site TechMeme launched archives of its various technology, politics, baseball and celebrity gossip sites this morning. The new sites show a “river of news” display of news headlines over the previous five days. Founder Gab... |
| Oct 4, 2006 | How To Muzzle An Important Voice | Tom Friedman wrote an important opinion piece this morning.
I don’t see it on Memeorandum.
I don’t see it on Real Clear Politics.
I bet the reason is that sites that track the conversation don’t link to posts behind a fucking wall.
Now you ... |
| Sep 25, 2006 | TechMeme Invents New Kind of Advertisment | TechMeme (formerly tech.memeorandum) is a site that bloggers and others check frequently for news. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, and linking to, and decides what is news based on that... |
| Jun 18, 2006 | Is Meta Better? | I spent some time on Digg and beta.netscape.com this weekend to see how well Jason Calacanis his crew at AOL had replicated and/or improved upon Digg.
I am not a Digg fanatic, I visit it a couple times a week, vote sometimes, and submit sto... |
| Jun 14, 2006 | Digg v3 screenshots show aims beyond tech: will it work? | Valleywag got the scoop today that a next version of the hugely popular news site Digg will include many new categories outside of technology. Whether other communities of interest and expertise will follow and fill an expanded digg space s... |
| Apr 21, 2006 | The Personal Bee, a news site that makes a comeback | The Personal Bee is a Berkeley start-up that lets users organize news in their area of interest, so that others can read it.
It is chock-full of the latest Web 2.0 features, and it worth taking a look at.
Rather than forcing you to rely on ... |
| Apr 3, 2006 | Memeorandum Does Baseball | Tracking Major League Baseball coverage this year will be a little bit easier than before – Gabe Rivera is launching a Memeorandum site called BallBug today. BallBug offers a news summary, updated every five minutes, spotlighting the most b... |
| Mar 13, 2006 | WeSmirch Automatically Digs Dirt | WeSmirch is a new celebrity gossip and news portal powered by Memeorandum. The technology behind Memeorandum will find the most popular stories from blog posts or news sites and cluster them together using a proprietary algorithm. What read... |
| Mar 1, 2006 | Memeorandum (finally) gets a new look | Gabe Rivera, the founder of Memeorandum, announces a slightly new look for his cult favorite site.
Since the September launches, I’ve heard a lot of reactions to the user interface, and the results have been mixed. The usability and functio... |
| Jan 17, 2006 | Tailrank makes improvements | San Francisco start-up TailRank, another site that tries to sort through thousands of blogs to bring us the most interesting posts, has made some improvements from when we last looked at it last year (here and here)
TailRank spiders 35,000 ... |
| Jan 13, 2006 | Brands Not Microchunks | Mark Pincus has a rebuttal to my Future Of Media posts.
He says my focus on microchunks and syndication is "too much web 2.0-laide".
Mark makes a bunch of great points, but I don’t think his views and mine are mutually exclusive.
... |
| Dec 19, 2005 | My "Discovery Page" | I have always started the web with MyYahoo, at least since MyYahoo was launced in the mid 90s.
I’ve got my "daily reads" there now via RSS and I still grab a fair bit of news there and of course the weather and my stocks. So I don... |
| Dec 12, 2005 | Topix expansion aimed at building communities | Topix.net doesn’t produce a shred of news content on its own. Like Google News, it’s a news aggregator, pulling together headlines from thousands of sources. But that hasn’t stopped users around the country from mistakenly emailing the comp... |
| Oct 29, 2005 | Blogniscient v. Memeorandum | Ben Ruedlinger’s Blogniscient relaunched today with a completely new look and feel. An old screenshot of the service is here.
Blogniscient is a blog news organizer that, like Memeorandum, uses a propreitary algorithm for determining what’s ... |
| Oct 21, 2005 | Memeorandum Hype and New Feature | Memeorandum continues to be our news site of choice, and it is starting to get real traction outside of the core blogosphere as well.
Ryan Singel at Wired posted an in depth review of Gabe Rivera’s Memeorandum this morning.
Gabe Rivera, the... |
| Oct 12, 2005 | Memeorandum is Changing the Web | I’ve previously profiled Memeorandum, and there are no major announcements or feature releases to spur this new post.
However, something much more significant is happening because of Memeorandum, and I am not the only person to notice it.
R... |
| Oct 10, 2005 | Web 2.0 Workgroup | During my time in Silicon Valley I’ve been staying in the TechCrunch house with Michael Arrington and Frederico Oliveira (Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame is also here currently). Mike, Fred and I all blog on the topic of Web 2.0 – so we tho... |
| Sep 18, 2005 | Memeorandum Is Exceptional | Company: Memeorandum
Launched: September 2005
Location: Mountain View, CA
I’ve been using Memeorandum for about a month (since Bar Camp in August). Gabe Rivera, the creator, gave me a private demo and set up a demo site for me (no longer ac... |
| Sep 14, 2005 | memeorandum and Google blog search | It’s late. We’re tired. But, briefly, two new toys to play with.
memeorandum, which Scoble discusses here and which creator Gabe Rivera explains here.
And Google’s blog search (finally!).
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital... |
| Feb 14, 2005 | Aggregation Advertising Aggravation | Try saying that three times fast! Jupiter Research analyst Eric Peterson recently
had another chat with Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher. The resulting
post from Eric pretty much confirms my theory that Bloglines was
scared off its contextual ad... |
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