We have just released a new Moreover feed rank for blogs and podcasts, available as part of the UGC Metabase. It’s a 1-to-10 blog ranking with Rank 1′s top blogs, Rank 2′s sub-top, etc, down to Rank 10 for less significant blogs. Basis for the ranking is the number of inbound links a blog receives from other blogs.
We’ll be sharing some of the results in the form of ‘top x lists’ shortly - after all who doesn’t like a good list…
Leave a Comment February 6, 2009
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4 Comments January 30, 2009
Some good news today – our spam-free index of blogs, a.k.a “The Moreover White List”, just hit a royal new high of 254,351 blogs. That’s a great increase since our previous post announcing ‘only’ one hundred thousand blogs back in October.
We’ve been adding blogs by platform, here’s a summary of the latest additions:
LiveJournal: 66,481 blogs
HauteFort: 2,424 blogs
FeedCreator: 2,367 blogs
Community Server: 2,120 blogs
Canal Blog: 15,624 blogs
b2evolution: 1,544 blogs
Squarespace: 1,370 blogs
Liberated Syndication: 72 blogs
And here’s a screenshot with the hard stat proof – a computer can’t lie after all:
Leave a Comment January 28, 2009
Here’s a challenge (and quite beyond yours truly): we have 600 news feeds in our list. All of these feeds can be cross-referenced, stacked, or blocked from each other.
For instance, you can combine feed A and feed B to make feed C. Or, you can block feed B from feed A and make a new feed D. Finally the feeds can be cross-referenced: articles that appear in feed A and feed B create new feed E. You can use those 3 options in combination, and with as many feeds as you like, for example you can cross reference 10 feeds with another 10 feeds, from which you block another 5.
So the challenge is this (and ignoring the fact that not all feed combinations will make for sensible results):
How many possible feed combinations can you make? Presumably there is a limit. Initially I thought 600-squared (360,000), but that doesn’t seem right, it must be more?
Unfortunately no prize for the brave and brilliant soul who can answer this question! Though expect a bag of respect and your number may well make it into the Moreover “we have THIS many feeds” marketing blurb (saved for posterity ever after).
1 Comment January 23, 2009
A note to our French customers and others interested – the UGC Metabase was updated overnight with approx. 15,000 French language blogs from blogging platform Canal Blog. Bon.
Leave a Comment January 15, 2009
When you have a moment check out this excellent video by Dr Michael Wesch, exploring the changes in the way we organise and use information. The pace of change is so rapid, it actually makes it easier in some ways to take a step back and see the wider picture - basically you don’t have to step back very far. Helps of course when someone like Dr Wesch sticks it in a YouTube vid …
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1 Comment December 9, 2008
With the new website bedded down we’ve been turning out attention to the free RSS feeds section. Now you can pick one of 500 prebuilt feeds (will in fact grow to 600 next week), or you can create your own - just enter keywords to describe your topic, adjust the relevancy and sources sliders, and you’re all set. Grab the RSS feed itself, or add it directly to an iGoogle style start page or feed reader.
We’ve also put up a feedback page for comments and suggestions, powered by uservoice.com. We hope to hear from you!
Leave a Comment December 3, 2008
Last Thursday we added <generator> and <publishingPlatform> tags to the UGC Metabase XML. It lets us list out feeds by blogging platform, and help customers organise the data accordingly. The <generator> tag gets the raw generator value from the original RSS, which <publishingPlatform> then consolidates under their common platform name, e.g. Wordpess, Blogger etc.. At the moment we’ve marked out 150 blogging platforms (some pretty obscure ones out there…. ). The top 25 show in the White List:
1 Comment November 18, 2008
We’ve been pushing on and now have just over 115,000 blogs in our UGC White List. Still got many more millions of blogs in the wider UGC index though, and we’ll be pulling more from there over the coming months as we build out our spam and adult-free White List. Still, 100,000+ ain’t bad for starters (but we want MORE!).
1 Comment October 29, 2008
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