I think we have a new space emerging which I’m calling Meme Engines (for lack of a better word). Current players include TailRank (which I hope to have out of private beta soon btw), Blogniscient and Memeorandum.
The all have a number of characteristics in common:
- analyze weblogs looking for patterns
- promote this interesting content to the user
- expose this content to the public web.
There’s a slight overlap here with regular aggregators (Rojo, Bloglines, etc) as well as social bookmarking applications (Delicious, Furl, etc).
Not sure I like the name “meme engines” though. Anyone have a better suggestion? Maybe reputation aggregators? I’m really bad at this stuff…
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Trackback on Nov 8th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
A NEW ‘MEME ENGINE’?
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Trackback on Nov 8th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
Tailrank – the Attention Engine
I owe Nathan Weinberga big thanks for pointing me toTailrank. He describes it as”like…
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Trackback on Nov 12th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
OPML = Attention Data, Attention Engines and Tailrank – podcast with Kevin Burton
Although we met briefly last week, Kevin Burton and I didn’t manage to get enough time to discuss some…
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November 1, 2005 at 12:37 pm
I still feel like plain “aggregator” works, if we stop using it as a synonym for “feedreader.”
November 8, 2005 at 5:15 pm
“Ladies and Gentlemen….. *drum roll*…
The Magnificent ATTENGINE!!”
*crown goes wild*
measuring our collective ATTENTROPY from a GLODAL perspective.
ithangyaw. ;)