Created by a 22 year old law student in London, Techsted is a news aggregator which also doubles as a study of memes. Techsted searches the web for the latest tech related news, and ranks and rates the results using an algorithm. So you get stories about cable companies and Google, but unlike other news aggregators, Techsted tries to unearth the workings of memetrackers. It categorizes news stories into four main classifications: Inverted or unique stories, those not popular with the mainstream press, money or dealings, which has to do with acquisitions, fund raising and investments, launch, and rumors. Users can find unique news items not picked up by memetrackers, by category (or time frame, i.e. most recent) and they can search for stories by tags. They can also recommend new items for submission.
“Techsted is an accidental venture in the world of memetrackers. In an attempt to understand how memetrackers work and why there are biases, I went from a simple curious experiment to a public website. Techsted has been made public to allow web users to have an alternative choice to existing services and to fill in some gaps which till now have not retain the attention of other websites.”
The site gives users a range of news stories, not just those found on other aggregators. It’s relatively easy to find stories based on your particular interests and the site has a very clean, easy to ready layout and design.
How different is this from other news aggregators? The interface could use work—it seems all too 1.0.
Visit website:
http://www.techsted.com
Category:
Web 2.0
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Tags:
technology
news
news aggregator
user recommendations
algorithemes
memetracker
