There's a new aggregator in town folks. If you're a fan of Dave Winer's political NewsJunk aggregation site, Techmeme, or FriendFeed, then you're going to love Winer's counterpart to the political NewsJunk site, Tech NewsJunk. Created because Winer wasn't getting enough news about products, Tech Newsjunk is the latest product review aggregator to hit the market.
While Techmeme has it all covered when it comes finance and technology trends, product reviews are a rare treat. Here's where Tech NewsJunk steps in. The purpose of the aggregation site is to allow you to find out about products before they hit the big leagues. According to Winer's official post about the site's launch,
"A couple of notes. I'm not just interested in new products, I'm also interested in how the products evolve. So if Flickr were to (for example) add a bunch of new features tomorrow, we would defintely link to that.
I also want to hear about products from the people who design and implement them. Their point of view is very important to not only understanding their work, but to understanding the market."
As a frequent user of tools like FriendFeed and Twitter, it's no surprise that Winer has implemented numerous ways to keep up with Tech NewsJunk. You can:
Winer also has future plans to include the latest micro-blogging service darling identi.ca and roll out email updates.
Thus far, Tech NewsJunk has decent product coverage from a host of great sites. The featured content ranges from internet apps to mobile technology. Winer also notes that ReadWriteWeb is one of the best sites to find product coverage and even extends some advice to us (we're listening Dave). As of this post, ReadWriteWeb is listed three times in the counts section, with two of our articles coming in at #2 and #3 respectively. All in all, Tech NewsJunk is a must have in anyone's feed reader.
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ReadWriteWeb also spent many weeks at the top of NewsCred's 'Most Credible' list. So you guys are doing something right!
Congrats also to Dave - I think the biggest challenge will be to keep the news targeted and focused on *product* news rather than general tech news aggregation. A good start though.
Posted by: Shafqat | July 6, 2008 1:43 AM
We'll see how this goes, so far it looks pretty good, though i think it would be great if you could actually select the list of sites that you want to aggregate.
Posted by: Godzhesas | July 7, 2008 12:20 AM