Archive for the “techmeme” category
Has Techmeme Stopped You From Reading RSS Feeds?
by Tony Hung on November 19, 2007
Interesting question posited by Fred Wilson on Techmeme as a curator of feeds. That is, that it does such a good job at curating memes that he hasn’t read many (if any) news / blog feeds these days. The problem, (…)
Techmeme Confuses Me Sometimes
by Tony Hung on September 22, 2007
Update: Mat Ingram also notices it, but now it looks like its been (manually?) removed from Techmeme. Either that, or its not always perfect. :)
I Have A New Favourite News Aggregator. Have You Tried Blogrunner?
by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007
So, you might have your favourite news aggregator. God knows I love Techmeme. I read Megite for some different flavours. Tailrank from time to time. Perhaps you like to scan the socially driven headlines via popurls.com. My new favourite news (…)
With Its Acquisition By Yahoo!, BuzzTracker May Leap Over Rivals
by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007
So you may have heard that Yahoo! snapped up BuzzTracker, a rather small potato in a field of news/blog aggregators, for a cool $5 million dollars. The details can be found courtesy of Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.com over here. Like (…)
Yet Another Botched Opportunity For a Social Media News Release (WHY? — I mean, “why?”)
by Tony Hung on July 2, 2007
I’m going to yak about Yahoo! SmartAds in a moment, but I’d just like to take a second and rant about yet another plain vanilla press release. Right now, at the top of Techmeme, is the Yahoo Press Release for (…)