What is TailRank?

September 21, 2005 in RSS, Weblogs, blogging, feeds, reputation, search, tags, weblog

In a nutshell TailRank is my new startup.

TailRank is a next-generation weblog ranking system which takes into consideration a lot of lessons learned from other Web 2.0 products and services. Needless to say I’m really excited! I love this industry b and there’s a lot of innovation in this space right now.

We’re still in early alpha development mode and still building out a team. Things are going well and everyone I’ve pitched seems really excited.

I hope to have a public release in a few weeks but feel free to register for a beta account and we’ll send you out something as soon as possible. I’ll obviously be talking about TailRank a lot on my blog in the coming weeks so feel free to subscribe.

Update:

Here’s a screenshot… Here it’s recommending Wikipedia content.

screenshot

Update:

If you’d like to chat I’m hanging out on #tailrank on irc.freenode.net.

8 Replies

  1. 1 TechCrunch Trackback on Sep 21st, 2005 at 1:25 pm

    TailRank - A Tool for the Long Tail

    TailRank just released an alpha product for their new analytics service.
    My understanding is that it is a personalized recommendation/ranking engine for the everypersons blog. It allows the long tail of blogs to understand just where they fit…

  2. 2 desparoz On The Go Trackback on Sep 21st, 2005 at 4:32 pm

    Kevin Burtons Feed Blog: What is TailRank?

    Kevin Burtons Feed Blog: What is TailRank?
    Courtesy of TechCrunch comes info on a new blog tracking service for the vast majority of blogs outside the Top 100, and living happily in the Long Tail.
    Will be interesting to watch it develop.

    …

  3. 3 Data Mining Trackback on Sep 21st, 2005 at 8:50 pm

    New Blog Portal: TailRank

    Kevin just posted about TailRank - let me in!

  4. 4 Data Mining Trackback on Sep 21st, 2005 at 8:53 pm

    New Blog Portal: TailRank

    Kevin just posted about TailRank - let me in! It claims to be aimed at ranking all the stuff that gets washed away by the heavy blogs at the top - sounds like just the thing needed in the blogosphere.

  5. 5 Media Guerrilla Linkblog Trackback on Sep 21st, 2005 at 10:19 pm

    Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog: What is TailRank?

    Link: Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog: What is TailRank?. TailRank is a next-generation weblog ranking system which takes into consideration a lot of lessons learned from other Web 2.0 products and services.

  6. 6 SiliconBeat Trackback on Sep 22nd, 2005 at 6:04 pm

    TailRank

    Kevin Burton, of NewsMonster and then Rojo Networks, is going at it again with another start-up, TailRank. It’s in alpha testing now, and we haven’t seen it, but it’s apparently a customizable search engine and “recommendation engine for the Long Tail….

  7. 7 SiliconBeat Trackback on Sep 22nd, 2005 at 6:20 pm

    TailRank

    Kevin Burton, of NewsMonster and then Rojo Networks, is going at it again with another start-up, TailRank. It’s in alpha beta testing now, and we haven’t seen it, but it’s apparently a customizable search engine and “recommendation engine for the Long …

  8. 8 Marc's Voice Trackback on Oct 16th, 2005 at 9:21 am

    Tailrank

    Been waiting a while to learn more about Tailrank - but since today is ‘catch-up’ day - here we go. First of all - anybody as coolio, righteous and humble as Kevin Burton gets as much publicity as possible. Secondly - open reputation is a HUGE hole in …

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