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Beyond aggregation: finding the web's best content

Panel: Marshall Kirkpatrick (VP Content Dev, ReadWriteWeb ), Louis Gray (Author/Publisher, louisgray.com), Gabe Rivera (Founder/CEO, Techmeme), Melanie Baker (Community Mgr, AideRSS Inc), Micah Baldwin (VP Business Dev, Lijit Networks Inc) People are not reading their RSS readers anymore because of Twitter. Content is...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Aggregation, Gabe Rivera, OneSpot, RSS, Channel Management, Search, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting Spam

Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting SpamMy interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of MemeorandumI really enjoyed the two part interview with Kevin Rose of Digg. Coincidentally, I just did an interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Tech Memeorandum. http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/02/interview_with_.htmlIt provides an interesting contrast and compare...

Tags: Digg, Kevin Rose, Pt 2, Gabe Rivera, Fighting Spam

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

Additional Resources

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.

One of the things to remember about the Associated Press is that it's run by newspaper executives, those same decision-makers who largely resisted the influence of technology on their business models and are now dealing with the fallout of layoffs, bankruptcies and complete closures because of it. ...

Tags: Web, Associated Press, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009

During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a sun tan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world. ...

Tags: Facebook, Barbecue, Twitter, SXSW, Scott Beale, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-08

ePlatform launches Techmeme competitor and application platform

ePlatform has developed an on demand platform for building Web applications platform, and its first example app is a set of meme trackers, similar to Gabe Rivera's popular sites, Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum and Ballbug. ePlatform launched Technology, Politics and Entertainment trackers, based on its RSS, Search...

Tags: Article, ePlatform, ePlatform Search Engine, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Scoble's summer movie doesn't kick Google's butt

Robert Scoble livened up the August vacation time, when companies prefer to hold their announcements until after Labor Day (in the U.S. at least), with 35 minutes of video proclaiming that "SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry," meaning Google's dominant position in...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Movie, HDTV, Scoble, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-27

News to know: iPhone; Dell's net gear; DRM-free movies

Notable headlines:Engadget on how iPhone delay story happened. Techmeme discussion.Larry Dignan: iPhone: The pieces are falling in place for lift-off. AppleInsider: Apple iPhone receives FCC approval. Russell Shaw: iPhone test results now live on FCC site: here are pics, links.Dan Farber: Dell’s Project Hybrid: Pre-packaging the datacenter. Photos right: Dell...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Big, BAD contextual Web: Do you want journalism with your ads?

OnHollywood hosted industry insiders to debate "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0" this morning in Los Angeles.Didn’t make it to LA? No problem, “industry insider” Web 2.0 Techmeme to the rescue, for NOT SO "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0.”What is Techmeme? Gabe Rivera:At this moment, the next big story in technology...

Tags: advertisement, Advertising, Donna Bogatin, Google, industry insider, Media, NewLaunches, old media, TechMeme, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?

Om Malik sends out cease and desist warnings. Dont Giga anything if you know whats good for you. "Steve Jobs is my hero, and the other night, when I was thinking about Steve, I thought, yes, I should sue too... Steve is an incredibly inspiration," said Mr Malik. Dave Winer...

Tags: Silicon Valley

Blog posts 2007-04-01

Daylife's rather lifeless news aggregator

I am an unabashed TechMeme fan. For some kinds of stories (mostly Internet, consumer tech and Web 2.0 related), TechMeme provides a one-page, aggregated, filtered, archiveable summary in near real-time of what is new and generating conversation. It is based on Gabe Riveras proprietary algorithms and more than 600 home...

Tags: attention.The Daylife, Daylife, Personal Technology, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-01-04

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27

Meme tracker for baseball news

Completely off-topic, unless you're a baseball fan. Gabe Rivera, the creator of memeorandum and tech.memeorandum, has just launched BallBug which aggregates news about Amercia's favorite pastime. Announcing the new site, Gabe writes:As the 2006 MLB season kicks off this week, the outlets for baseball coverage have grown more numerous and...

Tags: Ballbug

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Attention on the brain

Attention was the subject of the SDForum Search SIG tonight at AOL's Mountain View office. In fact, it's been the subject of attention and lively debate for the last few weeks, especially at the recent ETech to PC Forum conferences. In my post from ETech, "The amorphous attention economy,"...

Tags: Blogging, Root Markets, Gabe, Memeorandum

Blog posts 2006-03-17

Ozzie and the Gang

Just posted the Gillmor Gang's two-part conversation with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's most civic-minded CTO, about his gifting of the Live Clipboard technology he announced at ETech. Jon Udell, Mike Arrington, Dan Farber, Dana Gardner and I drill down. Thanks to Ray and Richard Eckel for the time.I'm on the way...

Tags: Mike Arrington

Blog posts 2006-03-16

Blogosphere founder quits blogging says he has better things to do

[Warning: social satire ahead--for entertainment purposes only! The only genuine quotes in this are from Tom Foremski. Based on Dave Winer's real announcement of leaving blogging.] Monday, March 13, started off as a normal morning in the blogosphere--there were a lot of top bloggers convening at the South By South...

Tags: Winer, blogging, blogosphere, Mr Winer

Blog posts 2006-03-14

GestureBlank

Those who were expecting my session on Gestures at ETech tomorrow will have to wait until next Thursday's SDForum Search SIG at AOL in The Valley, with Seth Goldstein, Gabe Rivera, Dick Costolo, and Dave Sifry. Meanwhile, Dan Farber fills us in on a Gillmor Daily from San Diego on...

Tags: Gillmor Daily, Seth Goldstein, Dave Sifry

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of media

Gabe Rivera of Memeorandum joined a partially populated Gillmor Gang (Steve, myself, Doc Searls and Mike Arrington--Jon Udell, Mike Vizard and Dana Gardner unavailable) podcast on Friday. As I said during the show, I'm a fan of Memeorandum. It aggregates the discussion around tech topics (with a preponderance of Web...

Tags: Memeorandum

Blog posts 2006-02-04

Who do you trust?

RSS got another big boost today when portals-in-the-headlights AOL and Yahoo? decided they wanted to scrape some vig off of the email stream. Notice that this idea, first championed by Bill Gates several years ago in his famous "I will fix this problem in 2 years" speech, is in fact...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-04

The thought that Notes is dead is dead

Generalismo Franco is still dead is dead, says Ed Brill in sessions at Lotusisdeadsphere. From all reports, Lotus IBM has killed the notion that Domino/Notes is dead by assuring the 6700 attendees that the move to GrouPlace is vastly overstated. Meanwhile, IBM has discovered RSS and maybe Attention, but don't...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes

Blog posts 2006-01-26

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google's IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in to 2005....

Tags: Web 2.0, Web

Blog posts 2005-12-15