White label meme tracker OneSpot takes $4.5 million Series A

OneSpot, a provider of white label meme tracking services has taken $4.5 million Series A in a round led by Silver Creek Ventures. OneSpot plans to use the round to expand the reach of its subscription-based Web service. As ... continue

The Techmeme Myth

Is Techmeme influential, a driver of traffic and a unbiased source of the best tech news online? The tech meme aggregator founded by Gabe Rivera in 2005 has long been held up as one of the best ... continue

Google Blog Search: so long Techmeme, and thanks for all the fish

Google has relaunched Google Blog Search today, taking the nearly forgotten service into a new realm: meme tracking. The new Google Blog Search takes some of the tech from Google News and groups blog posts into clusters based ... continue

And more than echoes talk along the walls [Crunchmemeosphere]

There's an interesting debate brewing around what Robert Scoble describes as the passionates vs the non passionates, or alternatively described as the first adopter/ Crunchmemeosphere vs the rest of the world. Loren Feldman's contribution is as always ... continue

Life after Techmeme

Today marks exactly one month since I've managed to have a post I've written turn into a headline on Techmeme. In the preceding month, the site had 14 headlines, 11 of which I wrote. Since June 29, ... continue

Techmeme and the Noise Problem

Bitchmeming about Techmeme has long been a favorite past-time of bored early adopters over numerous weekends in the last year. The arguments are usually similar, and revolve around variations of Techmeme is to focused on reporting news ... continue

QMeme Day One

It has been 24 hours since I whipped together and announced the still very much alpha version of QMeme, The Inquisitr's (and by extension my) very own memetracker based on data from FriendFeed. Aside from acquiring XML ... continue