Three Startups Defending Democracy In America: Votizen, Memeorandum, and NationBuilder

The USA was founded by entrepreneurs who said "England has become bloated with bureaucracy. Let's disrupt it by starting our own agile, more innovative nation." But on the country's 236th birthday, we

The Top Political Stories On Facebook In 2011 Were Sensationalized, Polarized And Mostly Mainstream

Facebook has released a list of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/us-politics-on-facebook/top-facebook-political-articles-of-2011/10150409933120882">most popular US political news stories</a

Mediagazer: Techmeme's Editors Will Help Us Watch The Death Of Print; Find What's Next

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-163848" title="mediagaz" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/mediagaz1.png" alt="" width="300" height="95" />To many in the industry, <a href

Everybody Forgets The Readers When They Bash News Aggregators

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/vampire-201x200.jpg" width="201" height="200" />I remember way back before the Internet when I got most of my daily news via the San Francisco

Fairspin Teases Out The Bias In Political News

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fairspin-logo.png" width="185" height="52" /> Every news source has its bias, and that is especially true for political news. The same sto

The 50 Media Sites Bloggers Link To The Most

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/10740v1-max-250x250-215x50.png" width="215" height="50" /> Media search engine <a href="http://technorati.com">Technorati</a> is about to rel

Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites

<img alt="" />What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/joshua-schachter">Joshua Schachter</a> been working on since <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/1

Google Launches Its Own Memetracker

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/googblogsearch.png" class="shot2" /> Google has just launched a <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/">new homepage</a> for its blog searc

TechMeme Finally Adds Search

Tech news site TechMeme launched on September 12, 2005. It was an immediate hit and remains the most important blog news aggregator: Dan Farber wrote perhaps the best description of the site to date,

Memeorandum Leaderboard Shows Mainstream Media Leading In Political Coverage

Gabe Rivera’s latest leaderboard product Memeorandum Leaderboard is now live with some interesting results for the political blogosphere. According to the list, based on story headlines on Memeo

TechMeme Leaderboard In Context + New Verticals On The Way

Techmeme’s new popular list product Leaderboard launched today, and the reaction has been interesting. Some are suggesting that it’s not a representative list, others (well Scoble) are sug

Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold

Update: The leaderboard has launched. See it here. Blog search engine Technorati’s founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire fro

TechMeme Invents New Kind of Advertisment

TechMeme (formerly tech.memeorandum) is a site that bloggers and others check frequently for news. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, and linking to

Tech.Memeorandum is now TechMeme

This is the last time I will write about Memeorandum because, thank God, it has been renamed by founder Gabe Rivera. The technology part of the blog aggregator Memeorandum, formerly at tech.memeorandu

Digg v3 screenshots show aims beyond tech: will it work?

Valleywag got the scoop today that a next version of the hugely popular news site Digg will include many new categories outside of technology. Whether other communities of interest and expertise will

Memeorandum Does Baseball

Tracking Major League Baseball coverage this year will be a little bit easier than before – Gabe Rivera is launching a Memeorandum site called BallBug today. BallBug offers a news summary, updat

WeSmirch Automatically Digs Dirt

WeSmirch is a new celebrity gossip and news portal powered by Memeorandum. The technology behind Memeorandum will find the most popular stories from blog posts or news sites and cluster them together

Store Web Content Offline with Webaroo

For those of us who are still offline sometimes and want access to at least some web content (me) and running a Windows machine (not me), Santa Clara based Webaroo will be a useful service. It launche

Memeorandum (finally) gets a new look

Gabe Rivera, the founder of Memeorandum, announces a slightly new look for his cult favorite site. Since the September launches, I’ve heard a lot of reactions to the user interface, and the resu

Great RSS to Website Tool: FeedoStyle

FeedoStyle is a new service that allows people to pull any RSS feed into a stylized module on a web page. The idea is to allow blog and other website publishers to include new content directly onto th
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