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The 100 essential websites … Techmeme
The Guardian   (12/9/09)

One of my favorite sites is Techmeme...
David F. Gallagher, New York Times technology editor   (9/28/09)

… people will keep relying on Techmeme as not just a source of news links but as the agenda setter.
Rafe Needleman, CNET News   (3/11/09)

TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news.
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch in 2009's "Products I Can't Live Without" (see also 2008, 2007, and 2006)   (1/4/09)

Many of us in the tech community know and love Techmeme, a tech news aggregation site. For finding the newest tech stories that people are writing about, there's simply nothing better
VentureBeat   (11/28/08)

Rivera's Techmeme has fast become the tech news source of record…
BusinessWeek , from "The 25 Most Influential People on the Web"   (9/29/08)

My desert island RSS feed would be Techmeme, which is a pretty good way to get a bird's eye view of what's going on in the tech sphere.
Ryan Block, Former Engadget Editor-in-Chief   (6/5/08)

Techmeme is well known amongst tech bloggers and readers, quite simply because it's second to none in keeping up with tech news.
Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb   (12/26/07)

TechMeme is brilliant.
Jason Calacanis, founder, Mahalo; cofounder, Weblogs, Inc.   (10/10/07)

… TechMeme brilliantly unearths the hottest news stories.
Kyle Monson, PC Magazine   (8/27/07)

… Techmeme, the best aggregator of technology news …
Nick Denton, Founder and Publisher, Gawker Media   (6/5/07)

Let's just say that TechMeme is one of the first sites I check in the morning when I get up — and I keep checking it all day until I go to bed.
Pete Rojas, Engadget and Gizmodo Founding Editor (in remarks to Beet.TV)   (5/13/07)

… the technology underlying Techmeme — and sister sites WeSmirch, Memeorandum, and Ballbug — may prove to be the most powerful way to harness the blogosphere's investigative power.
PC World, from "The 50 Most Important People on the Web"   (3/5/07)

Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those.
Danny Sullivan, founder and editor, Search Engine Land   (1/17/07)

I am an unabashed TechMeme fan. … TechMeme's accuracy, clustering, timeliness and scannability make it an essential service …
Dan Farber, CNET News Editor in Chief   (1/4/07)

Techmeme &hellip continues to draw me in many times a day because of the quality of the stories or posts and the associated links to other blogs.
Rob Hof, BusinessWeek   (11/26/06)

Look no further than memeorandum, the site that aggregates the hottest topics on the Web each day.
Vaughn Ververs, CBS News   (8/12/06)

… a good news filter can help you zero in on the news you care about. … Techmeme is among the best of these services.
Ryan Singel, PC World   (6/23/06)

WeSmirch.com [is] a solid aggregator of celebrity news.
Entertainment Weekly   (6/18/06)

Memeorandum is what Google News should've been.
Doc Searls, protoblogger & Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor   (2/4/06)

Amongst Memetrackers, Memeorandum is Money … a simple, easy to comprehend, user experience.
Om Malik, GigaOM   (2/3/06)

The easiest way to follow this world is via a useful blog-tracking service called tech.memeorandum.
Lee Gomes, The Wall Street Journal   (12/7/05)

Pajama people … you'll never do it as quickly or usefully as Memeorandum, anyway.
Scott Rosenberg, Salon   (11/18/05)

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Mobile browsing of Leaderboards, via Mowser

Posted Sunday, January 6, 2008 5:13AM ET by Gabe Rivera     Permalink

The announcement of the Techmeme Leaderboard last October made only a passing reference to its OPML feed. I didn't know what would come of the feed, and mostly forgot it was there.

So of course, a nice application did appear: a web app for mobile browsing of the Techmeme Leaderboard. The great thing about it is how clicks on sources naturally give way to post summaries, which give way to original posts, all of it rendered for mobiles.

It's a very smart combination of the capabilities of Mowser, a mobile transcoding service and the data contained in the Leaderboard's OPML feed. For more on this see this post by Russell Beattie, Mowser's founder, and his followup where he introduces a companion service for memeorandum's Leaderboard.

Mowser's Leaderboard services are a special case of "OPML grazing", for which general apps have appeared in recent years. Last fall, Ross Mayfield embedded a grazing widget powered by Grazr in this post which similarly uses the Techmeme Leaderboard's OPML as a starting point. You can customize your own Grazr Leaderboard widget starting at this page. They also offer iPhone-optimized grazing. Several RSS aggregators have similar capabilities built-in. Blogbridge's Pito Salas, for instance, explained how the OPML file could enable a Techmeme Leaderboard "Reading List" subscription.

If you know of any more applications for the Leaderboard OPML feeds, please let me know.

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