Today we’re launching our first new news vertical in almost four years: Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies. Why it’s been four years is an interesting tale. Our experience with Techmeme […]

Frequent Techmeme readers may have heard of both “Facebook” and “Twitter”, up and coming social networking services where, among other activities, users tend to share links. Sharing is in fact a core activity on these sites, as it is a reliable means to signal “hey, look here, I am in the know, please respect me!” […]

Ignore all the other lists! As we did last year, Techmeme has distilled its very own Top 10 story list, utilizing headline ranking data archived throughout the year. While we employ a terrific team of news editors to guide our story selection, this list draws on many factors outside our direct influence, making […]

Today we’re introducing Techmeme Mobile, a new mobile version of Techmeme optimized for popular smartphones. Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on phones thanks to a sparser page format in which tabs and “Discussion” links load on demand. In addition, button-sized headline links make it nicely suited for touchscreens. We’ve tested it on the iPhone, Droid, […]

Ever since we first plugged human editors into the automation behind Techmeme, we’ve been improving how we work to make the human/machine combo more and more effective. While technological innovations have contributed to these […]

Have you ever wanted to suggest news stories to Techmeme?
Often there are Techmeme readers aware of
great stories that have fallen through the cracks,
or are taking too long to appear on Techmeme.
So I’ve often wanted to enable news tips,
but the question remains: how best to receive them?
Though forms or a special email address might work,
today we […]

If you’re like me, you’re not happy at all about 2009.
As of this evening,
no signs of economic recovery have yet emerged,
and it feels like people haven’t even gone back to work.
2008 in contrast was a year in which
we lived like there was no recession.
Because we didn’t yet know we were in one.
At least until our […]

Unlike other news sites, our impartial and omniscient news relevance
engine enables us to produce a purely objective top story list for the
year. Ok, ok, that’s not strictly true, in fact manual editing was
even phased in recently.
But the following choices for the most
captivating tech stories of 2008, derived by sorting through our
internal headline ranking data, paint […]

Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines
will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short.
Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table –
humans can’t possibly discover and organize news as fast as computers can.
But too often the lack of real intelligence leads to really unintelligent results.
Only […]

Techmeme Search now provides results through RSS.
What does this enable? A lot of things.

You can now subscribe to search results in iGoogle, Netvibes,
or your favorite RSS reader.
Developers can hook up other kinds of applications
to Techmeme Search as well.
Wherever background information
on a name or topic in technology can provide useful context,
Techmeme Search can help.
You can see […]