I had seen mention of the new news aggregation site TechFuga a week or so ago but didn’t really look into it as I figured that I had enough aggregators churning the waters. Then tonight I saw a comment on FriendFeed by Robert Scoble where he was pointing to it while tearing Gabe Rivera of Techmeme a new one so I figured what the hell – let’s have a look. For a change I’m glad I did because I gotta admit TechFuga is pretty sweet.
So what is TechFuga?
Well as the headline to this post suggests .. if you were to take Techmeme and Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop, mash them together – you would end up with TechFuga except I personally think it is better than either of them.
Understandably Alltop is a much larger and far ranging aggregator as it covers a lot more subjects than just technology but I have never been able to get excited about it as a go to reference point. As for Techmeme – well the common complaint is that it is now more geared to the BIG players in the blogging and social media ecosphere.
With TechFuga you can see all the new headlines from all the big blogs and new media players in one spot so there is no real fighting for that famous top spot like there is on Techmeme. for once I guess I’ll have to say Thanks Robert for a great lead. Now whether it will have any sticking power for me only time will tell I guess – in the meantime here’s some more screen shots of the main page
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