I’ve been searching hard for data in growth of popular subscriber services. Something that had a graph that showed growth in members/subscribers over time for social/community services like Flickr, del.icio.us, memeorandum, etc. Even some general data points like N members over M months would be great. I posted this here because I think lots of folks are hungry for this data like me.

Thanks Mike.

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everything becomes insanely clear.

Perhaps just a narrower sidebox and more whitespace between the sidebox and the main content would help.

Also, the ads are positioned in such a way that they actually obscure the functionality of the site. I realise that the ads drive your revenue, but what are the most important things you want the user to see?

Also, “Hot tags” – important? Folksonomy heatmaps are the new mullets, right?

“Recently tagged by members” – important?

Just ideas

It updates several times a day; again not as often as memeorandum. But then we don’t have a lot of servers. Yet.

It’s based on thousands of feeds rather than tens of thousands, and trashy feeds don’t live for long in the database before being automatically dropped. However, the feed base is gradually increasing as more quality feeds appear.

Users can submit their own feeds to be included in chuquet, but they are also subject to the internal quality processing.

You mean in addition to what I just wrote?

“Gabe, the founder of meme, is staying at my house right now and I’m partially ripping on it just to gets his anxiety up”

Tell him from me his site is great. I came across it about 2 months ago and I go there at least 3 times a day. I’m curious what he thinks of News Bump actually, as meme and NB are my two main aggregators at the moment although I think the latter is newer.

I should get my company to send him a bill for all the time I spend on it.

As for meme, it has certainly grown on me, but I think that is despite its interface, not because of it. I agree, good content wins. I just wonder how many people have visited memeorandum, taken one look at the logo and bolted for good.

Full disclaimer – Gabe, the founder of meme, is staying at my house right now and I’m partially ripping on it just to gets his anxiety up.

Sorry to criticise. It’s a very nice site, but I prefer the layout on NewsBump and memorandum. I just tells me what I need to know and there’s nothing else hovering around to distract me.

This is obviously just a personal opinion. Other people may love having a whole bunch of different data thrown at them from every angle.

Kevin

I agree it does seem similar to Digg, although more politics than tech. Generally I surf for content rather than gimmicks (such as Digging it) though, so I can forgive it that. I’ve only been going there for about a week, but every day the content is excellent for someone interested in current affairs like me.

If they keep it up (which judging by Digg lately which seems to have been taken over by 12 year olds they may not), I think it’s going to become a very popular site. Web 2.0 is just like Web 1.0 IMHO – it will be driven by quality content.

As for memorandum – I think the interface is the best of all the news aggregators so far (except maybe NewsBump). It’s simple and not too cluttered (although a bit ugly). Tailrank and Gather are too visually confusing.

Do you really think Memeorandum has a clean interface? It’s terrible!

WRT time to meme discovery we’re working on a robot update which should hit in another week. This should allow for deeper breadth and granularity in our recommendations.

Our current goal has been to push for a 1.0 release at the end of January so there should be some killer features landing real soon now ..

One in particular will blow your doors off (well I think) but I just have to do a little more tuning to get the performance there. Right now it’s really fast but I want it to scale a little more.

Also take a look at our new editorial control feature. I’m hoping to push the code for this tomorrow morning so if any of you guys would like to be an editor just send me an email.

Kevin

Kevin’s a smart guy and I expect the improvements to only get better as time goes on. Now you can say “Show me some tail” without feeling dirty about it.