Earlier this week, my friend Rasul Sha'ir of Threshold Blogazine and Vosica, told me about Techmeme, a useful aggregator of technology news. In the About Us section of Techmeme, Gabe Rivera writes:
According to Dictionary.com, a meme is a "a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes".At this moment, the next big story in technology may reside on a blog you've never heard of or a news site you don't have time to scan.
So I built a software agent to surface these links in real time and the result is Techmeme, the site you're visiting now.
Coverage is driven by a mix of industry insiders, passionate independents, and established journalists. So Techmeme gets the story no matter where it appears, and often days before it hits major sites.
For example, on July 13, Techmeme aggregated a number of blogs discussing Microsoft's rumored plans to buy Facebook for an incredible tune of about $6 billion USD or more.
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