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 part of the round, Silver Creeks’ John Adler will join OneSpot’s Board of Directors. OneSpot also announced the addition of Brett Hurt, CEO of social commerce market leader BazaarVoice, to the Board.

“We have built an industrial strength solution that breaks the biggest bottleneck in web publishing, the ability to curate and flexibly deliver high volumes of exceptional quality content for vertical audiences,” said founder Matt Cohen.

The OneSpot service has been described as both a white label Techmeme and white label Pandora. The service constantly monitors hundreds of thousands of Web sources, finding and linking to the best content for websites, blogs and email newsletters. Publishers then can pick from curated content what is displayed, and can deliver the results in a format to suit.

Current clients include the Wall Street Journal.

Congrats to the team; this is an impressive product that aims to go where very few have seriously tried before.

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But is it really that great based on evidence? BusinessWeek named Rivera in its list of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web in September with the headline The Traffic Driver: Gabe Rivera. As best we can on available information, we would suggest that the influence, traffic and impartial nature of Techmeme is a myth.

Foreword

The moment I so much as mention Techmeme in a post I will be accused of having an agenda, so lets start with the key points. I was a long term reader of Techmeme, and my first blog was indexed by the site. Over the years I spent a lot of time on Techmeme, and even had the pleasure of meeting Gabe in person last year for first time. Then something strange happened; I stopped getting headlines on Techmeme. More details can be found in Life after Techmeme, but what I missed in that post was noting (along with my falling out with Michael Arrington) that at the same time I stopped getting headlines on Techmeme, I wrote a post (which actually made Techmeme) titled Techmeme and the Noise Problem. I don’t believe in coincidences.

We’ve had a few stray headlines since that time, but at no where near the rate before. Rivera claimed publicly that nothing had changed, and that The Inquisitr had stopped writing posts that were worthy of inclusion, a claim backed by others (one Canadian writer with a long term agenda against me came in hard). As it turned out, our last full month with Techmeme headlines was our worst month on record. The Inquisitr has actually averaged 300-400% more traffic then we did that month (sometimes higher) and has had more links than it ever has. If anything, we are better off without the Techmeme links.

Rivera has continued to accuse me of being “a liar” both publicly and privately ever since, but has never once provided proof that the weight given to Inquisitr headlines wasn’t changed. Around 1-2 weeks ago (I can’t be sure of the timing as it was pointed out to me by more than one person) The Inquisitr was completely excluded from Techmeme, not even appearing as a link-in source on stories. Gabe may argue that this is untrue, and I only have my own observations from this week to go on; he may also reinclude The Inquisitr to prove this to be untrue, so it comes with that proviso.

My simple agenda is that I dislike Rivera’s statements that Techmeme is unbiased and is highly influential, when neither is true. My personal issues aside, this post will consider facts, with some commentary where required. I cannot stop some people saying that this is some sort of personal vendetta (I’d note that if it was, it was started by Rivera), but I can present facts and lets others draw conclusions from them.

Myth: Techmeme is Influential

The idea of Techmeme being influential comes from its use by some high end blogs and VCs. That some people of influence read Techmeme cannot be disputed, but extending that out to influential isn’t supported by numbers.

Here’s Techmeme’s traffic stats from a range of site tracking tools:

Quantcast: 7,188 visits per month/ site rank of 91,617
Compete: 291,621 people
comScore: no record of traffic (to small to measure)
Alexa: rank 119,812 with 1.2 pages per visitor

Compete is the odd one out (high use of the Compete toolbar or plugin perhaps), but even if we take a middle line, the influence is small. Techmeme doesn’t do a lot of page views. Consider that 1.2 pages a visitor on Alexa would also indicate search engine traffic as opposed to regular engagement; if it were influential more people would be refreshing Techmeme regularly because they are on the site checking for the latest headlines.

Publicly available statistics aren’t always brilliant, but a site that is said to be so highly influential should on these measures be ranked far higher than it is, by most objective measures of a websites worth. The numbers don’t support the myth.

Myth: Techmeme drives traffic (and how YHacker News beats it)

BusinessWeek called Rivera “the traffic driver” based on the myth of influence, but the numbers don’t stack up. I’m yet to talk to a person who can claim to have gained huge amounts of traffic from Techmeme, but that’s anecdotal of course and not based on facts. So lets look at some facts from this site.

The biggest amount of traffic ever delivered to The Inquisitr from Techmeme before we were excluded was 1,112 page views on a single post. In that time we had a reasonable list of headlines, some of them top of the page, some of them further down. The total amount of traffic from Techmeme during that time into the leading 10 posts (by traffic from Techmeme) is 5122 page views, or 512 page views per post. The distribution of numbers varies. There was one post (mentioned) with more than 1000 page views, three posts between 736-766 page views, and the remaining posts ranged from 158-400 pages views.

Sound like a big traffic driver? Digg and Reddit have peaked in 5 figures for this site, although Reddit does smaller numbers on average (but regularly low to mid 4 figures), but that’s probably not a fair comparison. What is a better comparison is the very niche YHacker News site.

On every publicly available measurement, YHacker News is smaller in traffic than Techmeme, and yet you wouldn’t be able to tell from the numbers they deliver

Our top ten posts by traffic delivered from YHacker News totalled 7073 page views. The top post came in at 2639 page views, more than double the highest figure from Techmeme. The second and third posts fell just short of 1000 page views (998 and 995) and the remaining posts ranged from 242 to 469.

So is Techmeme really a traffic driver compared to YHacker News? On the evidence we would suggest no. YHacker News may have a smaller readership, but their influence is extended through the engagement its readers have with content on the site, something Techmeme doesn’t match.

Other sites may have different numbers from Techmeme, some higher, some lower, but even taking that into account, a niche site with significantly less traffic statistically delivers more traffic than the “traffic driver” that is Techmeme. On the evidence at hand, the numbers don’t support the myth.

Myth: Techmeme is not biased

Rivera has long claimed that Techmeme is an unbiased tracker of leading tech news. I’ve already mentioned our improved traffic and link spread post Techmeme earlier in this post, so I won’t revisit our situation, but we can look at other sites for evidence of bias.

The concept around Crunchmeme, or that TechCrunch gets unfavorable treatment in Techmeme isn’t new, and the number of headlines TechCrunch gets on Techmeme (backed by the Techmeme Leaderboard) anecdotally supports the idea. The real question is that do numbers support the notion that there a bias towards TechCrunch; and likewise is it harder for other sites to get a headline on Techmeme.

The obvious comparison is Mashable, TechCrunch’s largest competitor, and a site (and team) hated by the crew at TechCrunch, people Rivera has always been very close to (the two times I’ve met Rivera were in Michael Arrington’s house). As of today, Mashable does not feature in the Top 100 blogs on the Techmeme Leaderboard, but this wasn’t always the case. Historically, at least according to TechCrunch’s Blogger Board, Mashable ranks at 33. So what happened to Mashable?

According to public measures of traffic, Mashable is competitive with TechCrunch on traffic. Quantcast places Mashable ahead on traffic, but Alexa, Compete and comScore has TechCrunch in the lead, but only by a small margin.

Mashable has had 9 headlines on Techmeme over September and October (at the time of writing) vs TechCrunch’s 245 headlines.

In terms of incoming links, Mashable ranks 14th on Technorati to TechCrunch’s 3rd. Technorati’s authority score which counts incoming links over the last 6 months ranks TechCrunch at just over double of Mashable’s score. From this we can establish that TechCrunch gets more links, but at a ratio of around 2.3:1 vs Mashable. The headline split for Techmeme is 27.2:1.

But does TechCrunch have an easier path to Techmeme than Mashable, even allowing for the link profiles?

We checked 20 random TechCrunch headlines from September and October (random as we could be, but I didn’t close my eyes and click). Of 20 tested headlines, 2 had no visible incoming links shown on Techmeme, 15 had 1 incoming link, and 3 had more than one link showing.

Here’s an example of a story on Techmeme today with no visible links. Rivera likes to claim that other links are considered but not shown, and that makes some sense, given according to Technorati, the only site linking to this post that isn’t a spam blog (as the time of writing) is The Inquisitr through our best of the web section on the front page

But how many links do Mashable stories need to hit the front page when they do? Of the 9 posts Mashable had on Techmeme in September and October, the average number of links shown was 3. No posts had no shown links, 2 has 1 link (including one post where The Inquisitr was the only site linking in visible), 1 headline had 2, 2 headlines had 3, 3 headlines had 4, and one had 5.

For Mashable at least, getting a headline, if and when they are able to, involved more sites running the story as shown on Techmeme.

It should be noted that not all shown links link to the headline stories, Techmeme groups stories based on context as well, and doesn’t necessarily give the headline to the first person who posts, or the site with the most incoming links. So Techmeme has to pick who gets the headline when multiple sites are writing about the same story, but not necessarily linking to each other.

Here’s the split again: TechCrunch 245 posts vs 9 from Mashable. That doesn’t allow for topics that both would have covered, but there is sufficient overlap on big stories to suggest that the overlap would be around 50%, so lets try that again:

Where there is an estimated 50% overlap of coverage, the split goes TechCrunch 123 vs Mashable 5 (both rounded up).

Now lets take TechCrunch’s treatment on Techmeme out of the consideration, and compare Mashable with another site featured on Techmeme regularly: Silicon Alley Insider (SAI). I’m not suggesting that SAI doesn’t deserve to be there, Henry Blogdet and his team are doing some great work and should be up there. But we can use the site in comparison to Mashable because it’s currently in third spot on the Techmeme Leaderboard (CNet news is 2nd, but it’s not strictly a blog, so it’s not as well compared).

At the time of writing, SAI has had 118 headlines on Techmeme for September/ October 2008 compared to Mashable’s 9. On links, SAI has a Technorati authority score of 4556 (it’s ranked 41st overall) and in traffic, the various services place SAI at one third to one half of Mashable’s traffic; Quantcast has the split SAI 650,000 to Mashable 1.4 million, and both are direct measures from each site (although Quantcast does under-report numbers a little bit in my experience.)

Even if we exclude the idea that Techmeme is biased towards TechCrunch, the stats prove that Techmeme is biased against Mashable, even if we allow for a wide ranging margin of error in the stats shown here.

Rivera’s line that Techmeme is not biased doesn’t stack up. He weighs the importance of sites, punishing sites and people he doesn’t like, while favoring those sites and people he does like.

Conclusion

It saddens me that Techmeme has come to this point. I’ve spent more hours than I care to mention on the site over the last 4 years, and it will always hold a small amount of affection in my memories. But enough is enough. This idea that Techmeme is the great influencer, the bringer of traffic, and an unbiased source of leading tech news isn’t supported by facts. The great Techmeme myth is a fairytale of spin; you don’t have to take my word for it, look at the numbers.

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3. 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 on story popularity on the front page. Users can get a whole of blogosphere listing, or are able to view popular stories based on topic, including technology. On the break down page, users can view each blog covering the story, and also get a trend graph showing the number of blogs running the story when.

The end result is traditional Google sparsity in aesthetics: lots of white, and lacking visually, but it’s the results that count, and Google Blog Search does it well.

Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb thinks that it may be. For the first time we see a real Techmeme competitor, with a wealth of advantages. Scope is the biggest selling point: Techmeme only tracks a few thousand blogs at most, possibly less, where as Google Blog Search includes all blogs. Then there’s the question on fair and reasonable results: Techmeme results a weighed in favor of certain sites over others, and the results can also be subject to manual interference, where as Google Blog Search doesn’t delve into petty personal politics, instead delivering results based on actual relevance and link juice.

I’m agreeing with Marshall that this is a Techmeme killer, but with the one proviso: there isn’t much traffic on Techmeme to kill anyway. Quantcast puts Techmeme’s traffic at 12,000 unique visitors a month, and Alexa shows a long term decline in traffic as well. Even if we presume Techmeme’s traffic is 10x bigger again, it’s still a case of an elephant squashing an ant.

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Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . . And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s easy to be passionate about technology and the internet and its place in the world, and I make no apologies for often joining the crowd in sharing a passion for the new and shiny. But any such immersion is always taken with a grain of salt, the seeded idea that for all that I feel necessary to buzz that often many of these products are doomed to fail, the concept of mainstream acceptance replaced by one that lacks a business plan, that aims for the next Crunchmeme headline or Arrington write up and ignores the billions outside of the space.

Have we, living inside a bubble of who is first with what is shiniest lost touch with the world outside our digital frontiers, a world where MySpace became the king of social networking, and where Photobucket is the prefered choice of photohosting over the tag friendly Flickr. A world where people don’t have 300 accounts across 25 microblogging platforms, a dozen social networking sites, and god knows how many other sites we tried then forgot 5 minutes later.

Strangely, it’s why I loved Gnomedex so much. It wasn’t the typical tech conference crowd and speaker list, instead Chris challenged the audience with a rich tapestry of varied thought, from Mars, to Ignite, and the realities of the global poor through the efforts of the simply amazing Beth Kanter. Next to the Cyborg Anthropologist was a guy who made a living bringing 4chan cats to the mainstream, and a guy who spends his time dancing around the world. Certainly in depth occasionally it may have been frivolous, but it was a strong reminder that outside of the crunchmemeosphere that there are people creating, challenging, innovating, and they aren’t simply tied to the next business plan free first adopter aimed web startup.

I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. Lord Alfred Tennyson

Every space needs its first adopters and passionates. The seed that spreads the word of value must always start somewhere. In a world dominated by corporate manipulation that the tech world has cast aside its reliance on the corrupted memes of mainstream media instead allowing a guy like Scoble to have a voice that spreads further than the newspapers of old is a positive. But it must be taken with not a grain of salt, but with an entire truckload, because in replacing one medium with another we are creating our own elites, an echo that bounces round the hills from bluff to bluff, with the rest of humanity often residing on the other side, oblivious to our rambles.

I will not pretend to offer an answer to the problem, particularly when I am sometimes a contributor to it. Keeping it real is a poor cliche, but the reality distortion medicine should be prescribed in twice daily doses from your family doctor. Rise up from your keyboards and cross the street, observe if you’re outside of the Valley the unwashed masses living without many of the things we use. See how the things they use are different, and note that while it is alright to like shiny things, the real opportunities lie outside of the cruchmemeosphere we live in.

headline credit: Alexander Pope

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What I am happy to report is that there is life after Techmeme. Inbound links have actually increased since June 29, with The Inquisitr breaking into the top 4000 blogs online as of today. The site has seen no decrease in traffic, and has actually trended up since that date. In the life of any blog covering tech, Techmeme doesn’t matter. Here’s what I’ve learned in the last month.

Write for your audience, not the headline

Techmeme thrives on sensationalist headlines and big exclusives, real or imagined, but it doesn’t track quality. It’s extremely easy to chase quick headlines, but harder to provide substance. See more here.

The Crunchmeme bias

Techmeme has long been accused on showing bias towards TechCrunch, but Rivera has always maintained that there is a magic mix of inbound links not showing that determine content on the site. There is no magic mix. Some sites are given precedence over others. One example: a headline hit Techmeme July 25 that detailed the details for a TechCrunch Party. There were no links showing on the site, and given it wasn’t really a news headline as such, it was rather strange to see it there. At the time I ran every single test I could possibly find to see what may have been linking in to it, including social bookmarking sites and social voting sites. Technorati and Google Blog Search both showed one spam blog that had copied the post in full linking in. De.licio.us showed one bookmark via my Shareaholic plugin, but no links on the site proper. There were no other links in on any other service when that post hit Techmeme. It was either placed there manually, or hit Techmeme based on a formula that favors TechCrunch over other sites.

The failure of impartiality

Techmeme is not an impartial service that chronicles the leading tech news of the day. Rivera likes to suggest that people who don’t get headlines aren’t writing good, topical content, but this simply isn’t the case when some sites are weighed more favorably than others. I have also been told privately by somebody that Rivera also gives weight to sites based on the topic area, for example some sites may have a better chance of a headline if they write in an area they are well known for, example: RSS, social networking, or any other filter applied by the service. Rivera can denigrate others all he wants, but Techmeme is a private theifdom that lacks impartiality.

Declining Influence

Techmeme has always traded on influence over traffic. Anyone who has even had a headline on Techmeme knows that the traffic it delivers is minor, and rarely, if ever reaches four figures. To be fair though the service has always been popular among first adopters and tech bloggers, but even this popularity is declining. Quantcast shows a significant drop in traffic at Techmeme, starting in May. Alexa shows a longer term decline. Where as Techmeme once happily sat in the Alexa top 100,000, it is now regularly out of it. In ceasing to be an impartial tracker of interesting startup stories, and instead moving towards covering more mainstream content from fewer sites, Techmeme is losing its audience. Influence means nothing if the audience shrivels up, and how long will advertisers pay a reported $6,500 an ad to reach a smaller and smaller numbers of readers.

The rise of the alternatives

Part of the decline of Techmeme can be attributed to the competition. FriendFeed has captured the imagination of many first adopters and has become a first call for the latest interesting news. It also does a far better job as a meritocracy than Techmeme does. There are also others, Dave Winer’s Techjunk comes to mind. Techmeme thrived as it stood alone as the unchallenged meme tracking leader in the space, and it declines as others offer fairer, more interesting and engaging alternatives.

Lists are irrelevant

Leaderboards and lists are all constructs of two things: elite who feel the need to constantly repeat that they are better than everyone else so that they remain elite, better than others, or alternatively, created by those who seek the influence of those at the top of the list by worshipping at their feet. And yet lists and leaderboards mean nothing when it comes to building a blog, an audience, or even a living. Some of the most profitable blogs and bloggers today are people you have never heard of, because while some are obsessed with telling others how wonderful they are, the rest are busy focusing on getting the job done. You don’t need to be on a list to be successful, even if the occasional bit of recognition is nice.

Conclusion

As I continue my life after Techmeme, I do feel some sadness, but only in respect to my errors in the past. I wrongly believed that Techmeme was greater than it is, and that getting your next headline on Techmeme was all that mattered. It doesn’t.

Rivera is making good money from the site and has led the pack for a long time; good on him for doing so, and credit where it is due. However, losing focus on the end user by diminishing your product based on personal likes and dislikes is never a clever business strategy, and those that lose perspective on the end user will always do so at their own peril.

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3. Techmeme and the Noise Problem

I’ve been a Techmeme fan for a long time, and I still religiously visit the site daily, although I have found myself using it less and less as writing here at The Inquisitr has allowed me to move away from pleasing someone with a Techmeme headline, to writing about what I love or am interested in, Techmeme headline or not be damned. I’ve also had the privilege of meeting Gave Rivera before and as well as being a great bloke, he’s smart as well…and I should know, I’ve tried multiple times to get a Techmeme clone scripted without any success.

While I recognize and sympathize with the arguments of people like Dave Winer, who started a conversation around Techmeme ignoring the little guy yesterday on FriendFeed, I don’t think Gabe, or Techmeme are to blame. I also don’t believe that there is much, if anything at all Gabe can do to address these concerns (although to his credit he has reached out).

Techmeme tracks news and ranks news on the number of people talking about the topic. That many people talk about large news from big companies is always going to be a given.

Yes, Techmeme was once different, but there also wasn’t nearly as much noise around large startups then either. Google is so large that there is nearly always one Google story on Techmeme every day, often more. Facebook, MySpace and social networking has gained so many users that every large company in that space is a news cycle unto itself. Twitter is such a trainwreck that it puts Britney Spears to shame in the sad-publicity stakes.

So what to do?

In part, ways to find the smaller, hidden stories are already all around us. FriendFeed delivers a daily dose of new, different and interesting opinions, people and startups. FriendFeed also offers a personal meme tracker via their best of feature, a feature that not only delivers output in RSS, it is also the basis for QMeme, our little meme tracker here on The Inquisitr. I’m still surprised more people aren’t sharing their FriendFeed best of feeds this way, because we all have the ability to offer alternatives.

However, people want public, no fuss meme tracking, which is in part why I created QMeme (and the beta, non widget based based version should be coming soon). I’m still refining the way it shows data, and what it shows. It would be better still with some extra data coming in, so if someone like Robert Scoble, Dave Winer or Louis Gray would like to share their RSS feed for their own best of from FriendFeed, I’ll see if I can create something better again, and I’ll happily share the mashed feed to anyone who wants to use it. The concept may not be perfect, but watching QMeme so far I’ve seen it sharing things that I don’t see on Techmeme, stories that highlight new and interesting startups that have value, and that’s at least a start.

Another small hack is to filter Techmeme so you only get stories about non-major companies. I’ve started a Yahoo Pipe here for those who want it. The pipe takes the Techmeme Firehose and blocks stories from or about Google, Facebook, Twitter, TechCrunch and a few others. If anyone has any suggestions of other companies that should be blocked (I need to add to the list, just haven’t sat down yet to do a full list) feel free to comment.

Let’s not just keep complaining, lets think creatively about new ways we can enable new, smart and interesting startups to rise to the top of our attention cycles.

Sidenote: Two alternatives to check out if you haven’t already: RSSMeme and ReadBurner. RSSMeme is now bringing in public social data, where as ReadBurner is moving into larger sampling audiences. They still suffer somewhat from the noise problem around big stories, but both offer something different.

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I was initially concerned as to how the XML feed from FriendFeed may be parsed in terms of updates, I’m happy to report that the page refreshes in full and provides ongoing updates in order as well as providing new stories as they reach the list (vs placing the new stuff on top like the same raw feed does in Google Reader).

I though I’d compare the list on QMeme as I write this post to Techmeme. Now I love Gabe and I’m still a Techmeme addict, but at the dawn of the personal memetracker there are some significant differences in what one delivers over the other in terms of my personal likes.

Lead stories

The top story on Techmeme now is about Google developing an ISP throttling detector. The top story on QMeme is Chris Pirillo saying that he’ll never use BrightKite and that he values his privacy. Now remember QMeme is based on the best content on FriendFeed as voted by my friends, associates and others I follow, so not surprisingly I much prefer the Pirillo item. It’s a little bold, out there, but more importantly there is a really interesting discussion on FriendFeed as well (the link in this case is a FriendFeed entry). Google measuring Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic…bit to nerdy for me.

Next Two posts

Techmeme: yet another Microsoft-Yahoo post, this time Tim O’Reilly having ago at Michael Arrington, then Andrew Sullivan trying to argue that Google makes us all brain dead in the Times of London. Qmeme has two FriendFeed posts: one discussion based on people’s positions for their name in Google, then an item about reciprocal following on FriendFeed. Honestly none of these overly excite me, however I got more out of the two in QMeme because the discussion was there. But admittedly it was tight call.

4th
Steve Gillmor on TechCrunch seeing dead people vs Scoble responding to people suggesting that he is a paid shill. Scoble wins hands down.

There are more I could compare, but testing this in the middle of the weekend isn’t really fair on either because fluffy items tend to rise to the top when news is quiet. I might try this again mid-week when big stories are breaking to see whether Techmeme has the upper hand.

Not everyone will like content on QMeme as they won’t like the content on Techmeme, but as we enter the age of personalized memetracking there will be many more QMeme style memetrackers out there than there will be versions of Techmeme. FriendFeed users already have this feature from within FriendFeed now, I’m just the first person to take it out of FriendFeed to share it with the world, and I most definitely won’t be the last.

Update: if anyone would like a QMeme widget for their own site or homepage there is now a 300×250 on the right hand side here on The Inquisitr. Click on share for the various options, including support for iGoogle and Netvibes.

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