Comments on: Blogniscient v. Memeorandum

By: TopTenSources Raises $3.5 Million, Acquires Blogniscient » JenIT

TopTenSources Raises $3.5 Million, Acquires Blogniscient » JenIT — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:05:38 +0000

[...] Top10Media, parent company to Massachusetts based TopTenSources, a human edited blog aggregator, has raised $3.5 million in a venture round led by Highland Capital (see our previous coverage of TopTenSources here). They are also announcing their acquisition of Blogniscient, a TechMeme-style blog news aggregator. We compared Blogniscient to TechMeme and other competitors in October 2005 and again in February 2006. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » TopTenSources lève $3.5 millions et acquiert Blogniscient

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:19:54 +0000

[...] Top10Media, la maison mère de TopTenSources basée dans le Massachussets vient de lever 3.5 millions de dollars auprès du fonds Highland Capital. TopTenSources est un agrégateur de blogs gérés par les utilisateurs (les précédents billets de TechCrunch sont ici). Ils annoncent également l’acquisition de Blogniscient, une sorte de Meme tracker pour l’actualité. TechCrunch avait comparé Blogniscient à TechMeme en Octobre 2005 et en Février 2006. [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » TopTenSources、$3.5M調達、Blogniscientを買収

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » TopTenSources、$3.5M調達、Blogniscientを買収 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:54:12 +0000

[...] Massachusetts州の人力ブログダイジェストサイトTopTenSourcesの親会社である Top10Mediaは、Highland Capitalを筆頭とするベンチャーラウンドで$3.5M(350万ドル)を調達した(TopTenSourceについての以前のわれわれの記事はこちら)。同社はまた、TechMemeスタイルのブログニュースダイジェストのBlogniscientの買収も発表する。 BlogniscientやTechMemeなどの競合を比較した記事は 2005年10月と、もう一回 2006年2月に書いた。 [...]

By: TechCrunch » TailRank is Looking Good

TechCrunch » TailRank is Looking Good — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:27:31 +0000

[...] Memeorandum is still better at breaking news - A headline on Memeorandum may not appear on TailRank until a day or more later - but TailRank is still much younger than Memeorandum and could catch up. And new companies like Australia-based Tinfinger (still pre-launch and sans content) and Blogniscient (profile) are gunning for this space as well. [...]

By: Edwyn Chan's Weblog : web 2.0 | blog media | china

Edwyn Chan's Weblog : web 2.0 | blog media | china — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:54:03 +0000

Smart news aggregators

First it was bloggers that picked out and commented on interesting news out of the sea of news articles on the web, what do you do when there are a sea of blogs? blogniscient and memeorandum are two new and hot aggregators of news articles using prop…

By: CrunchNotes » Conflicts of Interest

CrunchNotes » Conflicts of Interest — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:41:34 +0000

[...] In particular, he didn’t like my post yesterday on TechCrunch comparing the Blogniscient and Memeorandum and he felt that Blogniscient deserved it’s own review. I left the a comment, reprinted below. [...]

By: Library clips :: Blogniscient: breaking blogs :: October :: 2005

Library clips :: Blogniscient: breaking blogs :: October :: 2005 — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:31:48 +0000

[...] Thanks to the TechCrunch crew Comments » [...]

By: TECHNOSIGHT » An Open Letter to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington

TECHNOSIGHT » An Open Letter to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:13:38 +0000

[...] Blogniscient was given a sub-par review (e.g., a reader of yours pointed out one mistake but no update was made - fair enough, you just posted this comment) and no profile of its own. Before yesterday, you admitted via a comment on my blog that you choose not to write about Blogniscient because it was “so ugly it makes memeorandum look good.” [...]

By: TechCrunch » What Will Tinfinger be?

TechCrunch » What Will Tinfinger be? — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:07:36 +0000

[...] TinFinger appears to be in the same space as Memeorandum and Blogniscient - blog news. Paul Montgomer talk a little about it in a post last weekend. [...]

By: Blogniscient veduta ad alta quota dei blog

Blogniscient veduta ad alta quota dei blog — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:23:08 +0000

[...] Memeorandum Ã¨ una risorsa preziosa per avere un colpo d’occhio sui temi piÃ¹ importanti del momento, soprattutto se si Ã¨ stati distanti per piÃ¹ di qualche ora dal proprio aggregatore. Sono curioso di vedere come Blogniscient si comporta nel confronto [Via Techcrunch]. [...]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:12:51 +0000

Eran, No, I didn’t see that before. That makes it much more like memeorandum. I don’t see the depth of discussion yet though (let’s see if that expands over time). The headlines on Memeorandum still look more “relevant” to me as well.

Either way, both sites are great. Memeorandum needs a redesign desperately.

By: Eran G

Eran G — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:32:35 +0000

Did you check out the cluster view on blogniscient? It’s on the left nav bar under preferences, lets you see related posts as well.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:47:50 +0000

Pete, these are fair points. I assume Memeorandum will be releasing new verticals though.

Let’s let the web decide who wins over time.

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:10:23 +0000

Nice comparison - I prefer Memeorandum too, but I think we’ve got to appreciate that these are two sites aimed at completely different audiences. Blogniscient covers a wide range of topics - Memeorandum, meanwhile, is useless unless you’re into tech or politics. Right now, I see Blogniscient as a more mainstream version of Memeorandum. And it now has a “newbie friendly” UI to match.

It’s a bit like comparing MyYahoo to del.icio.us - the techies realize that del.icio.us is more powerful, but the domain and the incomprehensible interface scares off most mainstream users. Delicious really needs a new UI and a new URL if it’s going to go mainstream - perhaps it will move to delicious.com after all.