Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed
8 Feb 2012 9:04pm GMT Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s. Today, every kind of actor in the tech ecosystem holds events: large vendors host conferences to promote development on their platforms, investors host presentations to promote their portfolio companies, and media companies host events to earn the bulk of...
Techmeme has redesigned. Drudge Report is now indisputably the web's ugliest news site
26 Jan 2012 6:46pm GMT In the beginning, links on web pages were underlined, because that let us know they were links. And it was good. But all those underlined words started to afflict the eye, particularly on pages with many links. Over time many web sites, including news sites, abandoned underlines altogether, and more recently even Google News dispensed with all their underlines. By 2012, Drudge Report and Techmeme were one of the few notable holdouts. But that's ending now. Sorry, Matt. Today, we're...
Techmeme's biggest stories of 2011, literally, as measured by height
2 Jan 2012 11:45am GMT One of the best things about Techmeme is how "huge" or "big" stories can literally be that: conveyed through a stack of headlines several times taller than your screen size. (Unless you hate this, in which case it's one of the worst things, but moving on…) For our 2011 wrap up, for a change, we're going to ignore all our other, mostly invisible relevance metrics, and focus on this visible and nonmetaphorical type of "bigness". What follows are 2011's 25 biggest stories in terms of...