Tailrank makes improvements

January 17, 2006 | Matt Marshall

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 weblogs (soon aiming for 50,000) trying to find highly linked and discussed links and citations. Once TailRank discovers something important, it promotes it to the main website.

Kevin Burton is Founder and CEO of TailRank. The company competes against Digg, Memeorandum, Tinfinger and Blogniscient.

Others, including Scoble and Michael Arrington (see Michael’s post at Techcrunch for how TailRank differs from the others) have noticed too.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.