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Memetrack This Blog
I wrote a post about "discovery pages" last december.
I talked about delicious popular, digg, reddit, and memeorandum.
Since then, I have become a fan of another discovery page, called Tail Rank.
I met with Kevin Burton, who built Tail Rank, at eTech and he laid out an interesting way of thinking about all of these services. He said that digg and reddit are basically slashdot style community driven discovery engines. Delicious' popular page is also a community generated discovery engine, but it uses a different approach than digg and reddit.
Kevin described Tail Rank and Memeorandum as "memetrackers" and the essential difference is that they are designed to follow a meme and the links to it that develop over time. They work as discovery pages as well but they serve a slightly different purpose.
I like Kevin's description of a memetracker and I am using both memeorandum and Tail Rank about evenly now. I think both services are great.
I suggested an idea to Kevin last week and it is already implemented (that's impressive). It's called "memetrack this blog" and it allows a blogger or anyone who publishes to the web to enter the URL of their domain and see all the "memes" they've started and track them.
Here is the memetrack for this blog.
I've added a link to the stats section on the lower left sidebar so that anyone can memetrack this blog anytime they want.
I think this will be a very useful tool for bloggers to track how their posts develop and get linked to and its one more reason to use Tail Rank which is developing into a really useful service.
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Tracked on Mar 14, 2006 11:55:35 AM
Posted March 13, 2006 in Venture Capital and TechnologyComments
Glad you like it Fred. Seems like a good idea all around.
BTW... you can actually include Tailrank content directly on your blog by adding the following script:
I need to figure out how to make this more obvious.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Burton | Mar 13, 2006 9:36:23 PM
In regards to memtrackers,
a.) I understand how they are different than community driven (vote or bookmark) sites. They take a specific idea; expand on it via link and aggregate ideas/links about a specific subject. I really think this is the first thing that 'clustering search engines' need to look at to compete with the likes of technorati, GNews, and such. A general search engine will harness and aggregate ideas in a generalized format if they are using clustering, but they have no idea whatsoever of what topics/subjects are the most relevant at any given time. That is where "memtrackers" have an advantage. They are "current" [ie MS's Oragami in the last 3 weeks] on a level that large scale (G, Y!, MSN) just can't accomplish when crawling the whole web, which is what keeps them current and relevant in regards to news. I use TR and Memetrack (Even though I am getting sick as hell of all the times it is linkdropped on Scoble's blog), a decent amount, along with some community sites and multiple other "2nd level" as I like to call them news feeds, that keep me up to date on the daily happenings, but to be fair for any aggregator, its value lies (imho) in how easy it is to set up and analyze a power user's OPML/Feed List for news that it might find relevant to that user's interests (based on the OPML/Feed List) than it is to that a generic set of a finite blog list of "A-List" blogger's in the blogosphere. The value lies in knowing what my friends and blogs I read and trust are intersted in and writing about as opposed to what the largest cash cow company is swag-ifying "A-List" bloggers into writing about.
Posted by: Cyanbane | Mar 14, 2006 1:47:26 AM
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