Tailrank.com
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Tailrank.com is a site that provides a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned.
The focus of the site is the news items themselves, but users are also able to see snippets of the various blog citations that made the story popular.
The list of top stories changes over time; newer items are given a higher score than older items, and more popular items are given a higher score than less popular items. Items high on the list tend to be articles or posts that have triggered a lot of blog activity over the last day or so.
Because the site's index allows one to follow the spread of ideas from blog to blog, it can be considered a memetracker. It's the closest thing to a modern equivalent of blogdex, which has been shut down.
[edit] Media attention
- "TailRank is Looking Good", January 17, 2006, TechCrunch
- "Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton", December 8, 2006, PodTech.net
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