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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Breememe, aka Battle of the Memetrackers

OK, I am totally hooked on two memetrackers, memeorandum and TailRank.  I can't decide which one is better. There are three qualities I look for in a good memetracker: diversity of sources, speed and design. TailRank wins points for finding sources and its beautiful design, but somehow it feels slow in indexing blog posts when compared to memeo.

Now I realize memetrackers are in their infancy, but there are some features I really want to see. For starters, how about including news sites that link to blogs. Second, how about indicators that illustrate if a meme is accelerating or slowing. And finally, how about a list of the words that are most associated with a meme.

I loved Scoble's Brrreeereport test for web/blog search. Now let's build on it with Breememe - the battle of the memetrackers! I want to count up how many links TailRank and memeorandum aggregate around this test and see how quickly they do so. So (forgive me for asking) link to this post or just mention the word Breememe (note spelling) and let's count up the links every six hours or so on these services and the other memetrackers. Who's gonna win Mememania I. Ready? Go!

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Hooked on Tailrank? You need rehab dude. Stat!

Hi Steve, glad you like the site. I should point out though that memeorandum almost does the opposite of what you want, by design. The software deliberately omits links to posts ("memes"?) that it discovers, in order to improve readability. The idea is that not every post that links to X deserves to be read as commentary on X.

So in that regard, you seem to want a different kind of service, one that definitely has its value, but not one I aim to offer right now.

Hey

Thanks for the props.

I agree that I'd like to have Tailrank index faster. It's one of the things on our list.

For the record one goal I have it to be provably superior relevance, speed, and indexing time. Right now we're still beta but moving FAST :)

If you have any other suggestions I'm all ears. Super glad you like TailRank mobile btw.

Kevin

Just one problem - the number of links is not the only way that posts attain authority and memeorandum doesn't focus just on this.

Hi, Have you tried Megite, at http://www.megite.com, it is pretty cool too.

Steve: Don't be sucked in by this - I'm prety sure Gabe is doing a lot of this by hand and is biased in terms of story selection. That's his choice and right but read carefully what he says - the word 'deserves' kinda gives it away.

Not sure why dahowlett is "pretty sure", but he's wrong. I left a comment on his blog here: http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=481

Well, late to the party, but here we go in Christchurch New Zealand

breememe on fishtails

PS, you might want to update your sidebar with the new enmployers, and congratulations on the new post.

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