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, (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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