How about you? - Robert Scoble

Funny. I had an idea for another type of meme ... thinking of talking to Gabe and Atul Arora about it ... - AJ Kohn

But still tech news (or heavily oriented that way). I would like even more specialized info and discussion -- like what is going on in F1 racing, the bicycle world or other subjects I am or could become interested in. I thought the rooms feature would do it but it doesn't cut it (or maybe the people here are just interested in things that interest me) - Brian Sullivan

true. find news is easy. find useful post/article is really hard. - Rafał Nowak

We need a SMARTER filtering services, I really need this kinda service, data flowing everywhere ... Yes Scoble, I love FF for the same reason, let me ask you, did u bookmark your fav. users ? ;) - Alemsah Ozturk

Brian: those will happen when FF grows. Right now the feature set here is retarding its growth. They are rewriting the backend so they can add new features to let us talk to the database in new ways. WHen that happens it'll take off in growth again and bring in less geeky kinds of people. - Robert Scoble

Alemsah: nope, I don't bookmark anything. There's way too many to bookmark at this point. And I refresh so often that I see all good stuff anyway. - Robert Scoble

Have you spent much time on Twine, Robert? I get the impression they're tackling this problem--in their own way, of course. - Ken Sheppardson

we're trying to do that with Regator... although we do have business in there, there is much more to it and it doesn't dominate unless it is really top news in the whole blogosphere. We are working to make quality blogs and interesting posts accessible for average people as well as tech geeks... some people just don't care that twitter bought summize - can you believe it??? hit me up for a login if you are interested in taking a look. Please forgive the fairly blatant plug. :) - Scott Lockhart

Twine is more of the semantic analysis/social news thing. Also has a "grouping" mechanism, but it is user driven. I think we are talking about techmeme for tech blogs here. - Rob Diana

Whatsnewandhowtomeme? - Charlie Anzman

My biggest problem is still redundancy; I'm not subscribed to that many people here (relatively) and even so I'll still see the same story linked five times, if not the same outright link. The next Google will be the guys who can nail personalization, recommendation, and filtering, as well as a sort of aggregation of conversation by topic. So far no one has gotten even close. FF might, but it's still got a ways to go. - Eric P

Ken: I have to spend some time on Twine. I should have done that long ago. You like it? - Robert Scoble

What if a search engine or filtering system, similar to summize for FF ? - Alemsah Ozturk

hey eric, did you hear twitter acquired summize??? about a million times. - Craig Ritchie from twhirl

@Alemsah: Take a look at this. You will love it! ;-) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Erhan Erdogan

I definitely still hope rooms take off as the diversity of folks (from an interests point of view) grows. I'm with Brian though in looking for more interaction on other topics beyond the hot tech and social media world... - Gus Perez

Scoble : did you use feedhub for rss feeds. Basicly, it creates a personalized RSS feed from your RSS feeds .. And it learns with your help (you say I like this one, it changes the algorithm so on...) Would it be nice if similar idea can be applied to FF ? - Alemsah Ozturk

If "editorializing by algorithms" then you need criteria for what is important; what would be the criteria? how about leveraging likes ? still fixing and open to suggestions :http://www.thredr.com/ - LPH™ and his dog P™

Have you tried Gyzork? http://www.gyzork.com - Rebecca Povio

Rebecca: I just looked at Gyzork. It's worse than TechMeme. Less useful stuff and even more regular old news. Sorry, that's what http://news.google.com is for and it doesn't have an awful name, either. Alemsah: too much work. Never will take off, sorry. Needs to be easy for lazy types. - Robert Scoble

Try Technorati's Percolator or Blogrunner. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

This is why I started reading magazines again! - David Weiner

Hey guys. This is pretty close to what we're trying to do at socialmedian. The idea is collaborative filtering at the topical level, wiki-like scaling to an infinite # of topics. We call topic-based networks, "News Networks" and anyone can create one and bring in feeds, posts, and people to track, share, and discuss news of interest. We then add an additional layer/filter by enabling people to follow "Newsmakers." It's a tough problem to solve: Turn the volume up and turn it down at the same time. - Jason Goldberg

Robert: have you checked out SocialMedian.com? Its coming out of alpha now. It lets you enter the topics and the sources you want -- In effect, its a customizable Techmeme. - Christian Anderson

I like friendfeed because it does a pretty good job with sharing photos and videos, not just text. I've been experimenting with the open source twitter client, Witty, to add videos, drawings, and photos for this reason too. I think friendfeed activity also suggests that TechMeme is going to need to add comments if it wants to keep current. - Loren Heiny

Christian: I just got added to SocialMedian yesterday, will try it out. - Robert Scoble

Robert: i too am interested in the "this is cool" type stuff. that seems to be what is popular on socialmedian. I'm still playing with how to create a really tight "news network" for essentially engadget for web 2.0. Setting up the specific topics like iPhone apps is easy. setting one up around "how to take a better picture" is harder. - Christian Anderson

Robert: We enable people on socialmedian to fully customize their news networks to include all types of sources (e.g. business news, blogs, etc., or just a few favorite feeds). Up to you. It's far from perfect yet but getting better by the day thanks to awesome feedback from our alpha users. - Jason Goldberg

Jason: All we know how good SocialMedian is! ; ) Great job, congrats again! - Erhan Erdogan

Erhan Erdogan are you on socialmedian? best you could do if you want to help us is let me/us know 3 areas we're f*cking up - Jason Goldberg

Robert: RE Twine... I'm just beginning to take a serious look at it. I like the concept of joining affinity/interest groups and having members pool links to resources they come across, but it's not clear to me yet how/if it differs much from a social bookmarking system with tags, tag clusters, etc. - Ken Sheppardson

Although there have been about a million "so and so buying so and so" posts on FF today - James Joyner

that's kind of what i turn to reddit, digg, and fark for. - Brian Ries

Jason: Thanks for your invite. ; ) I got the mail for - and also send me a feed back form or just send an email erhan(at)erhanerdogan.com.tr ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

I want a site like Techmeme, but with a way to buy books. You can't read news all the time -- you need books too. Maybe that's why I'm always going to amazon.com. - Gabe Rivera

Have you tried http://www.rssmeme.com/ ? From what I've seen, it comes close to achieving this. - Mark Krynsky

Regator.com is in private beta right now, but I want to do a friendfeed experiment (even though this thread is a little old now). I have just created 30 invites that will use the code friendfeed. Just go to www.regator.com and pop in the invite code and see what you think of our site. Its definitely not Techmeme but take a look and see what you think. We're eager to get your feedback on what sucks and what rocks and what is just kinda okay. I will put this on my feed as well and see what happens... :) - Scott Lockhart

But that's what Lifehacker is for! ;) Of course, I may be biased. - Tamar Weinberg

@Gabe: Why not develop a bookmeme site then. I'll gladly help. - AJ Kohn

@AJKohn - I would be more than happy to handover the domain you may be alluding to (in your comments up above) Gabe if he is interested in using it. - Atul Arora

Techmeme has lost for me a long time ago. I hope that someone builds a newspaper view out of someone's personal friendfeed homepage (in effect a personalized, subscriptions-based techmeme) - Meryn Stol