Popular blog news site TechMeme launched archives of its various technology, politics, baseball and celebrity gossip sites this morning. The new sites show a “river of news” display of news headlines over the previous five days. Founder Gabe Rivera told me earlier today that he also plans on including links to older archives as well in this format.
This is also an alternate view of the news. TechMeme ranks news items by popularity (determined by how many blogs link to a headline story), whereas the new river of news feature just lists headlines in reverse chronological order. This may be preferable to some users.
TechMeme and its sister sites still do not have any search feature, something we’ve repeatedly urged them to implement to assist in news research. Still, TechMeme remains a must-read site for blog junkies. Our previous coverage of the company is here.
Good way for the two cents blogs to earn a bit of teh $100.
Nice little feature. I just wish my rss reader could display as elegantly as techmeme.
About time. And I agree with you:- they REALLY need a search feature. Any idea why Gabe is stalling on this move which could potentially increase his traffic (and popularity) tremendously?
yeah, startups/india, I really love their design as well. It just fits perfectly.
techmeme has become a daily mustread. great
Try the ‘Expando’ theme in FeedDemon… it’s pretty darn close to the layout above.
Interesting site. Does anybody know of such a site for web 2.0 issues?
“Interesting site. Does anybody know of such a site for web 2.0 issues? ” – Yohay Elam
Yeah…interesting question and there are so my issues. Maybe you should make this your project.
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That’s very cool. Now maybe people will start writing decent headlines to their posts so we can find things in the river.
Techmeme and techcrunch is the site I read twice a day.
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The River is cool. A search would rule. Happy Yule!!
I think this is turning out to be a standard memetracker feature. Tailrank has had this for a while now (I think six months). Winer really pushed this so I basically added it for the Scoble/Winer crowd who are big river fans
It’s going to be interesting to see memetrackers involve into a standard checklist of features. RSS aggregators have a standard set since they’ve been around for years now.
Part of the problem with TailRank and TechMeme from the perspective of mass market adoption has to do with something very simple: the site names.
Does the average user know what a meme is? Or better yet, how do you explain the long-tail in “TailRank” to the, well, long-tail?
Or does it matter? I think it does. The average user knows what it means to dig something.
yeah…… Tailrank might not be very friendly…. I like it though…. but some people have complained… ha.
Thanks for the hint, Joe.
I looked at TechMeMe but it didn’t immediately catch me, maybe I’ll try again sometime soon.
Megite also has a River of News Service with broader coverage and real time news. (http://www.megi...m/newsriver.php). Thanks.
Quite good service, but I have not understood, whether it is possible to add there my own news line? If it is possible, how…?