Technorati goes pop, Techmeme (& co) goes mobile

Posted on | November 30, 2006 | No Comments

Technorati recently went meta by adding a ‘Popular’ section, which is aggregating the most prominently blogged proponents in the categories Music, Internet Video, Movies and News. interestingly, their categorization seems to be based on links to authorative platforms like amazon.com, imdb.com and youtube.com. not really sure, but I guess this could mean that f.e. music-related posts referencing less known artists might not be considered in Technorati’s most popular at all. that’s probably not so bad, as such artists might not appear in the top-ranking anyway – but what about videos posted on other sites than youtube?

in other news, TechMeme – pioneer and probably still leader of the aggregating-pack – and siblings memeorandum (politics), Ballbug (baseball only) and WeSmirch (celebrity gossip) went mobile earlier this week (though Gabe Rivera, TechMeme-creator, prefers the term ‘Mini’). all sites now offer a more condensed version for reading on small screens by adding ‘/mini’ to their respective URLs.

 

Comments