Techmeme’s newest human contributor: You

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… Continue Reading

News aggregator Techmeme melds algorithms and humans

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… Continue Reading

Breaking: Google News doesn’t break tech news

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… Continue Reading

Techmeme gets an iPhone app, not made by Techmeme, that you have to pay for

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,”… Continue Reading

Can 10 humans take on Techmeme’s algorithms and the Digg crowd? Blogged thinks so

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… Continue Reading

Will Google get trounced by upstarts TechMeme, Facebook?

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… Continue Reading