
114 ◾ Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies
per hour, by collating items from RSS feeds, and employs various data mining techniques.
e BlogScope homepage provides a display of the ‘Hot Keywords’ and provides plots of
these keywords over time, thus marking bursts of activity. It also displays related words
for each keyword.
Techmeme was developed by Gabe Rivera, a former researcher at Intel, and launched
in September 2005.
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It is slightly dierent from other engines in that it aggregates content
from technology-related blogs and news websites. Stories are detected by an automated
process which ‘scrapes’ for content and then attemp ...