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Friday, November 17, 2006

New Memetracker Opens Up

A new memetracker has opened up called BuzzFeed. It utilizes a combination of humans and technology to track the latest buzz around movies, music, fashion, ideas, technology, and culture. The site is currently crawling 50,000 sources, including news and blog sites.

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Just what I need... another tracker to chase. I guess I can learn to sleep 15 minutes less everyday.

I'm pleased to see there's some balanace between lines of code and human action.

"When something we are tracking gets especially popular, we bring it back to the front page..."

Now, is that done by hand or is it something akin to the likes of Digg? Whereby user action (or in this case, more people talking about it) brings the story back.

As Pete has mentioned, BuzzFeed becomes yet another service to chase .. unless you're big enough that they chase you!

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