Techmeme is an awesome way to view the “top” stories for the tech sector. I’d love to know how they group their stories. Manually, I assume?
The user interface screams of Slashdot circa 2000 — not a bad thing.
I wish there was a way to hide stories once I’d read them - I find the site is very gradually updated and I often come back to the site an hour later and find the same tech stories.
There doesnt appear to be any way to submit news - so I guess it’s chosen by the editors, this irks me a little but I’ll accept sometimes editors are required.
3 years ago
NYTimes does it again with a gorgeous flash visualization.
The size of the circles represent the processing power, it makes it amazingly quick to see which installations are the fastest.
I’m curious how they choose the grey/green/blue for continents. I might contact the creators “Elaine He and Kevin Quealy” (?) and see if they want a brief interview
3 years ago
How will this affect news sites? Does it bother you that services know what news you look out for, what you spend the most time reading and emailing to friends?
We’d love to hear your thoughts.
3 years ago
Not technically news, but we encountered these “D’oh!” moments and I’m sure you have too. They’re a real pest if you have to chance these once you have traffic coming into your site.
- Analytics Google Analytics are your friend, it skews all your figures and sources if you dont know where your visitors are coming from right away.
- Feedburner RSS Same as above, don’t miss out who is reading your RSS stream - get statistics and added publicity for free.
- Social Bookmarking Buttons Add This offers handy buttons that allow users to quickly bookmark and submit your site to social news sites. You want it to be as easy as possible for your readers to come back to your site.
- Disqus Comments We forgot these initially, we were going to rely on YC news for comments, but decided we loved Disqus too much. Lovely installation guide means there is no excuse not to use them!
- CSS Max-Width Property Hate having to resize images before you post them? Don’t want to break the width of your site? Simply use this handy CSS property and all your problems vanish.
+1 Use tr.im or other services to shrinken your outgoing URLs for additional analytics!, this way you can see how many users click thru to other sites from you. We don’t usually do this as Google Analytics does it, but we love the services so we thought we’d big them up.
3 years ago
