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 […]

Hours after Techmeme launched in 2005,
search uberblogger Danny Sullivan
remarked
“there’s no keyword search facility that I can see. I want that, and soon!”

Nobody wants to let Danny down,
so I got right to work and 32 months later,
a search box now sits atop the site.

Well, actually, work on search was rather seriously delayed.
For years, I blew it […]

High-volume, “complete” RSS feeds are available now for
Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum, and Ballbug.
For years, the RSS feed for each site has included the day’s
most important 20-30 headlines,
typically those placed “above the fold”.
Going beyond 30 headlines would overwhelm most subscribers.
This selectivity has a downside: headlines don’t appear
in the RSS feed until they’ve amassed enough “importance”,
so the feed […]

Friday’s Crunchies award ceremony
was a blast many reasons, not least of which was Techmeme’s
win
in the Best Boostrapped Start-up category!
It was nice to see Techmeme sponsor Zoho
take one home as well.

Much thanks to everyone making this possible: Techmeme’s voters, readers, and sponsors,
plus the publishers who create the stuff Techmeme links to.
Thanks also to the event sponsors […]

The announcement of the
Techmeme Leaderboard last October
made only a passing reference to its
OPML feed.
I didn’t know what would come of the feed, and mostly forgot it was there.

So of course, a nice application did appear:
a web app for mobile browsing of the Techmeme Leaderboard.
The great thing about it is how clicks on sources naturally give […]

Along with surfacing stories and putting them in context,
one of Techmeme’s chief functions is providing a kind of visualization
for news. Headline size, cluster size, and “Discussion” length all
signal the structure of the buzz surrounding a story.

I’ve always wanted to make a cool, time-lapse view of Techmeme
to take this to the next level. So […]

Along with surfacing stories and putting them in context,
one of Techmeme’s chief functions is providing a kind of visualization
for news. Headline size, cluster size, and “Discussion” length all
signal the structure of the buzz surrounding a story.

I’ve always wanted to make a cool, time-lapse view of Techmeme
to take this to the next level. So […]

The ascent of blogs and other independent publishers
has expanded and revitalized political dialogue in the United Status.
While the “mainstream” media remains
the primary source of factural reporting,
they no longer own the agenda.
Appropriately, tapping a diversity of media sites
is essential to produce memeorandum’s
autosummaries of the most web’s most buzzed-about political items.

What exactly are these sources?
The memeorandum Leaderboard,
launched […]

Celebrity news sites,
like the stars they cover, do not draw equal attention.
Some serve millions of visitors while
others are still working for their “first million”.

WeSmirch,
the real-time celeb news tracker,
has its own favorites,
those sites it relies on most for headlines.
And the WeSmirch Leaderboard,
introduced today, lists the top 100 such sources.
Every 20 minutes it ranks them by how […]

Two great sponsors have arrived on Techmeme,
joining four wonderful existing sponsors.
But first, some notes on a September sponsor not introduced earlier:

Graphing Social Patterns
(blog)
is a conference held October 7th-9th in San Jose, CA for developers and marketers on how to build and distribute apps for the Facebook Platform. This event is for both business executives & […]