There has been a tremendous amount of buzz in the blogosphere recently with the advent of a number of meme aggregator products that are similar to Gabe Rivera's memeorandum. Aggregator sites monitoring the Internet are a hot product idea which has left us with lots of options when looking for the latest blog posts and news.
The latest to surface in my own referring link metrics reports have been Megite and TailRank but there are others that were just identified by Michael Arrington on TechCrunch. Mike lists the following aggregators:
- Blogniscient
- Blogrunner
- Blogsnow
- Chuquet
- Megite
- Memeorandum
- Newroo (pre-launch)
- Tailrank
- Technorati Kitchen
- Tinfinger (pre-launch)
- Topix.net
- TruthLaidBear
Mike admits in his post he still likes memeorandum the best. I still need to check a few more of the new options out for little bit longer period of time to make a judgment. Topix.net is a huge player and have made some excellent strategic moves in the space as of late by redesigning the site, adding blogs and user comments. Technorati has also released Technorati Kitchen which is highlights the most popular recent stories in specific niche areas. Megrite appears to be memeorandum but offers additional niche areas other than just Technology and Politics.
With a crowded aggregator field, that appears to be multiplying, I think their is room for more than one option, I just wonder at what point you consider the field saturated with options.
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I think it is great that there are so many aggregators.
It is yet another proof that there is value in weblogs.
During the first wave of aggregators there was an outcry when daypop or blogdex went offline for a day. Now that there are choices it would not matter as much.
Posted by: Andreas Wacker | Saturday, February 04, 2006 at 02:49 PM
I agree with you Andreas, thanks for the comments.
Posted by: Frank Gruber | Saturday, February 04, 2006 at 02:53 PM
BTW, the Technorati Explore stuff has been moved out of the kitchen and on to the main site: http://technorati.com/explore/.
Posted by: ryan king | Sunday, February 05, 2006 at 02:26 PM
Thanks for the chuquet mention - could you maybe correct the link to chuquet.com in the numbered list? It's pointing to tinfinger at the moment.
Posted by: Laurence Timms | Sunday, February 05, 2006 at 04:20 PM
Oops, thanks for the fix, I took care of it. ;)
Posted by: Frank Gruber | Monday, February 06, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Are the aggregators at large the next Google? (or specifically Google News?)
Certain newspapers are up in arms saying that Google is "stealing" their content....showing enough of a headline and blurb to get the point across, without having the user traverse to the newspaper site.
But aren't aggregators doing the same thing (albeit one-step-removed sometimes)? FJ said: "Aggregator sites monitoring the Internet are a hot product idea which has left us with lots of options when looking for the latest blog posts and news."
Scary...people turning to aggregators for news instead of...newspapers.
Posted by: Carlos | Monday, February 06, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Thanks for the comments Carlos. It appears more and more people are turning to aggregators for a more organized way to pick up the signal from the noise online.
Posted by: Frank Gruber | Monday, February 06, 2006 at 11:29 PM