So Gabe finally took memeorandum into another category today, launching WeSmirch. Just take tech.memeorandum and replace Scoble, Winer, RSS feeds and blogs with Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton, anorexia and divorces.
Oh, and give it a smick looking make-over. Even with the recent design changes, memeorandum still looks dated to me. It’s quite amazing what a cooler [...]
You know how they say pets tend to look like their owners. Well, after playing around with content aggregators over the last few days, it’s become strikingly obvious to me that the content aggregators share the same types of personalities as their users.
The explosion of traffic this site has seen over the last three of [...]
Maybe I’m off the mark but it looks like Gabe has given memeorandum a bit of a tweak.
The page I’m looking at now, for example, has about 40 discussion links on the big FON story and nine of those stories are broken out so you can actually read the first par. To me it looks [...]
By now if you’re a web afficianado you’d know that Google News is out of beta . Big deal. The real meat in this story is Google’s launch of a personalised news service , which it seems the company has been waiting to complete before it ripped up the beta sticker.
As I mentioned [...]
Squash likes a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, so we enjoyed stumbling across this post from Kent Newsome who said:
“Unfortunately, the blogosphere is a closed system. There are too many people who believe they are going to get rich by writing a blog. Once you add the element of money into the equation, [...]
memeorandum, held up by many as the posterchild for automated content aggregation will be extended to enable human input as the service extends into markets outside tech and politics.
In response to a Squash posting arguing the merits of a hybrid human/machine aggregation system, memeorandum creator Gabe Rivera said: “I’m planning extensions to my system to [...]
In this corner, weighing in with more than a dozen years editing experience on websites, newspapers and magazines, I give you – the Human Editor.
And in the other corner, weighing in with quad-Intel Titanium processors and capable of churning through a gazillion mathematical functions a second, is the beige box.Let’s get ready to rumble…
A couple [...]
