List of Websites that Aggregate Technology News (Mainstream and User Created)

Categories: Industry Index, Web IndustryPosted on September 15th, 2007

I create these industry index lists (see all), they help me to keep an eye on trends, fads, and markets. The community (that’s you) helps me to keep these lists updated by adding new companies in the comments, and I serve as a sort of editor to ensure consistency.

Recently, I’ve noticed an explosion of news aggregation sites around industry topics. Technology is my primary interest, so I’m putting together this list of companies that Aggregate news technology. What’s interesting is that they all have different techniques to gather the news, most are automated by computer algorithms, and some have human editor process.

Limitations: There’s quite a few mainstream news channels that Google, Yahoo, MSN and others provide, these are not included, I’m looking for new ways to find news. Those listed below also index blogs, which are important. There’s also quite a few voting type websites like Digg, I’m not including those either.

As long as the output is high value, it really doesn’t matter.

Subscribe to all with this combined feed: Using Yahoo Pipes, I’ve created a single feed that aggregates all of the following feeds into one feed, you can subscribe. It’s certainly a high volume feed, so use as needed.

List of Websites that Aggregate Technology News:

Techmeme
Type: Algorithmic
“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. -Gabe Rivera”

Tailrank
Type: Algorithmic
” We find the hottest stories by tracking conversations between blogs. Tailrank takes into consideration linking behavior, the text of the post, links in common with other users, text relevance, weblog ranking, past performance, and various other factors for recommendations. ”

Technorati Topics
Type: Algorithmic
“Each topic features blog posts from many of the best blogs out there to help you discover what’s going on. The posts are refreshed frequently to reflect breaking news, new opinions, and the latest from the Web. We’ve set out to help you find some great blog posts to read and we’ve organized them by easy to browse topics. We considered a number of factors to get the seed list of blogs including Technorati Authority, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality. (blog)”

Buzz Tracker
Type: Editorial selection | Algorithmic
Recently acquired by Yahoo: “Our goal has been to launch a news site that leverages the power of the “head of the long tail” of the blogosphere to automatically generate news pages for a multitude of topics, both broad and narrow. We are currently tracking more than 1,000 different topics and 90,000 blogs. In the next month, we will be launching a create-a-topic feature to allow you to create and manage pages that are of the most interest to you. We will also be launching many new features in the coming months. Stay tuned!”

NewsTrust
Type: Submitted News | Editorial | User Voted
“NewsTrust is an online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism – or “news you can trust.” Our members rate the news online, based on journalistic quality, rather than popularity or ideology. Our free web site and news feed will feature the best and the worst news of the day, selected from thousands of blogs and mainstream media. Submitted stories and news sources will be carefully researched and rated for accuracy, fairness and originality by non-partisan panels of citizen reviewers, students and practicing journalists. NewsTrust is currently in an early beta stage. We anticipate a full service launch in mid-2007.”

NewsTin
Type: Algorithmic
“NewsTin provides multilingual news search and it introduces a completely unique dimension to it. You can search/browse/read news by topics and not just by keywords. While browsing through the topic structure you can switch languages and have foreign-language stories translated in real time. Find out more in our Products section on this patent-pending technology.”

Know of others? Leave a comment.

Gesture Feed: I create a Shared Feed, which are items I choose to share from my Google Reader, this is really a “gesture feed” where I filter content that I find interesting for you. I’ll be pulling the combined feed into my Reader, and then selecting specific stories that will make the Shared Feed.

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Comments

Joe

News aggregator site in UK: http://www.recentnews.co.uk/

bansi

Computerworld's Tech Dispenser is another good tech news aggregator. It's a blog network, where bloggers apply to join, and are approved by Computerworld's editors. Editors also hand pick each piece of content from member sites to highlight on TechDispenser.com.

Anita Campbell

Megite, as Carsten mentioned, is one I am familiar with.

Also, Topix.net and Newsvine.

Then there are BlogRovr.com and Stickis.com. While not sites per se, these solutions group and aggregate conversations around a particular blogger or a particular article or Web page. They provide information about other conversations or blogs citing a page, while you browse.

jeremiah_owyang

Thanks Carsten

I'll see what else others submit then I'll add them in the pipe.

Carsten Pötter

There are also Megite.com and the New York Times' Blogrunner.com. I think both services are really good.

jeremiah_owyang

Thanks China, aggregation is the solution to beat competition (think about it)

Nicole, NewsTin is a European created sited. Czech, I think

Nicole Simon

Out of these, the only relevant and working for me is Techmeme, and it is not so much about the river of news but rather about the grouping of it.

One look at it and I have a feeling what happens at some place I am interested in.

Sadly all of them are very US centric, of course, english centric to the degree that they are not even capable of adressing a clear langauge separation.

That I could deal with but my noon time is just +9 hours to yours, so my phase over the day is different and i wish they would give me a -4 hour or something link to click through the day.

China Internet Marketing

What I've noticed recently is that most of them are quite eager to gain traffic from our content while not so eager to provide clear and SE friendly links. Instead they place small invisible links with nofollow proporty.

If they themselves chosen to include my site's content into their site, well.., then at least give me some credits back.

I've been noticing this trend more lately with China Foreign aggregators - mostly from new entrants. If things continue this way, I feel a wp plugin for blocking aggregating sites will soon appear.