Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. (Techmeme) Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that’s everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced to pay an additional fee [...]
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Filed under: Internet , Microsoft , Web Micorosft has launched a new web site that tracks popular political news stories and blog posts. Political Streams works a bit like a news aggregation service like Techmeme . But the layout is unique. Items are listed either in the News or Blogs category based on the source. Scrolling over those colorful bars brings up the number of blogs or news sites writing...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
Tonetek Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. The new Blog Search homepage is very similar to Techmeme and Memeorandum. Top stories relating to a wide variety [...]
TechLifeBlogged (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Sites that I found interesting for October 2nd 2008 through October 3rd 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 [...]
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Google Blog Search has redesigned and added meme trackers like Techmeme and Megite on the front pages of several categories and the homepage itself. I've shared a screenshot and you can see how the blog posts are separated by story along with how popular they are. This allows for easy scanning, which is useful if you're looking for blogs talking about a hot topic. What do you think of the update?...
Library clips (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Google Blog Search (GBS) is now memetracking, similar to services such as Megite and Techmeme. You can filter by a number of categories such as Science, Technology, Entertainment, Business, Politics, etc.. The look and feel is no way close to Techmeme. Clustering GBS clusters stories similar to Google News. Techmeme does something similar but, it does this 2 ways: 1. Stories [...]
OakLeaf Systems (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Google’s new blog memetracker feature, which allegedly competes with Techmeme and Technorati, found only 16 posts as of 10/2/2008 about the "Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server" topic. Although it appeared briefly on Techmeme, my Amazon Adds SQL Server to Oracle and MySQL as EC2 Relational Database Management Systems wasn’t one of them. (The number of posts varied from 14 to 17.) What’s really...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Just yesterday, Google Blogsearch re-launched with additonal memetracker features, but spammers have already found a way to get their wares featured on the service. Right now, under the technology section , Zenni Optical, an online eyewear store, and the '50 State Phone Book' are featured as the 7th and 10th most popular technology related blog posts on the web. Today, Google blogger Matt Cutts pointed...
KillerStartups.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Some questions How does it compare to the already existing blog search engines on the Web? What it does Not to be upstaged by the more recent memetrackers developed by its competitors, Google has just released its very own blog search engine. As you probably know, a memetracker is a tool which enables anybody to study the migration of memes as regards a given group of people. It is a concept which...
Today @ PC World (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Google has relaunched Google Blog Search with its own memetracker. A memetracker takes all the latest blog posts about popular news and issues and aggregates them to make browsing the latest topics much easier. Google's new page lists a variety...
SitePoint Blogs (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
While looking at Techmeme yesterday I noticed that just a handful of companies made up most of the news. So I began to wonder, which companies do we write about the most? After some searches, I had an answer: Google, Microsoft, and Apple dominate the conversation in the blogosphere.
Traffick (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
As an interim entry for the annals of the Annual Internet Infinite Regression Awards, I note Best News Site Prediction of Its Own Demise (This Week) -- Techmeme on the new Google Blog Search. Will have to check it out. Old Google Blog Search was so bad and so spammy.
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
There’s a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. The report in question (Techmeme), Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s Tom-Skype platform, details the activities of the Chinese government’s monitoring of Tom-Skype [...]
