Speaking of all this TechMeme horsey business today I'm taking my camcorder over to chat with Kevin Burton, founder of TechMeme competitor TailRank.
Kevin Burton released a new TailRank. Last week I asked the audience at ConvergeSouth how many people even knew about TechMeme. Very few hands went up.
It's easy to get sucked into things. You can sit down with a good book for a few minutes and before you know it, several hours and a few hundred pages have gone by.
And he's found that TailRank is sending him more links than Memeorandum is (although Memeorandum is sending more traffic).
OK, I am totally hooked on two memetrackers, memeorandum and TailRank. I can't decide which one is better.
And they want their error message back!
The folks over at Megite (who are doing a memetracker along the lines of Memeorandum, or TailRank) are working on a personizable memetracker.
Over the last few months I've been asking people I meet who read my blog (or who say they do, at least) about whether or not they read Memorandum (or the competitors like TailRank, Blogniscient, Digg, Megite, or Chuquet).
If Kevin Ross is to be believed, there is no more chance Yahoo will buy the popular user-generated news site Digg than it will Opera Software for its browser.