Techmeme’s newest human contributor: You
New aggregator Techmeme made headlines last month when it revealed that a human editor would help the site’s algorithm pick the best links to highlight. Today, it’s adding a powerful new source to that process: You.
Techmeme will now scour the micro-messaging service Twitter looking for tweets (Twitter messages) that start with “Tip @Techmeme” or “Tip @TechmemeFH” (Techmeme’s two Twitter accounts) and include a link to the news story you think should be a Techmeme headline…. Continue Reading
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 journalists (like ourselves) watch it obsessively.
Today, the site is moving beyond its chiefly technology-driven method of finding top stories. It has hired a human editor to help shape the site’s content:… Continue Reading
Breaking: Google News doesn’t break tech news
Confession: We’re tech news junkies. In order to be any good at what we do (tech blogging), we kind of have to be. A tech news junky’s best friend is an RSS reader — we troll hundreds of sources and thousands of stories on a daily basis looking for that one piece of news worth covering. But sometimes, that simply isn’t feasible all the time — you need an aggregator.
Many of us in the tech… Continue Reading
Techmeme gets an iPhone app, not made by Techmeme, that you have to pay for
When I saw a new application called Tech News in the App Store the other day it piqued my interest. After all, it combines two of the things I love most: Technology news and iPhone apps. Then I saw that it was “Powered by techmeme,” the technology news aggregation site, and I was even more interested. Unfortunately, it’s not very good, and rather pointless.
First of all, the only thing Tech News does is take the… Continue Reading
Can 10 humans take on Techmeme’s algorithms and the Digg crowd? Blogged thinks so
I remember the days when Techmeme was full of great tidbits and blogs with clever writing, but it seems as if something switched. Now, in order to find the more niche content that matches my tastes, I have to mine through half a page of Microsoft/Yahoo drama and speculation about the iPhone 3G.
Blogged.com thinks it can change this and challenge Techmeme and its fellow aggregators. The difference rests on the ongoing and highly debated battle… Continue Reading
Will Google get trounced by upstarts TechMeme, Facebook?
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Robert Scoble, the tech blogger, has drawn a lot of attention with a talk about why Google is beginning to fail as a search engine, and how upstarts may eat its lunch within a few years.
It is provocatively titled Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years, and here’s first video of a series (we’ve embedded it below, after the jump).
His argument is solid for the most part. Google’s… Continue Reading