Kevin Rose

First thing, and I hope we don't, in the edit, this has to make it in.

I have nothing but a huge amount of respect for Gabe and what he's created in TechMeme.

What I'm building today is not meant to be a competitor.

I don't plan on launching it in its form.

It was mainly a personal curiosity of can I build something that's on par or better than TechMeme by myself and call it like a week and see what that would look like.

And one of the nice things about TechMeme is, for those that don't know or for those that are lightly familiar with it, it's been around for a long time.

Gabe's been building software since I was back in 2004, which is crazy.

We were both kind of experimenting in early social news and what that meant.

And what you see here is an aggregator that pulls from RSS and other sources.

I don't know all the sources that he pulls from, but then also pulls from social media as well.

And when you gather...

whether it be multiple news stories coming in or multiple people tweeting about something or talking about it socially, that is considered signal, and then that is considered used as part of ranking and showing you what's prominent here.

And so what...

What you're seeing is actually visually the higher an object is here, the more weight it carries with a user.

Because if you come in here and you scroll down the bottom and you see something with very little tweets on it, it doesn't nearly carry as much impact as something with 15 or 20 different X posts underneath it.

I like what he's doing here.

I think it's a really cool way to say, maybe you might recognize some names, especially in tech, given how small the ecosystem is.

You can probably look through this list and say, oh, I know these two or three people.

They're talking about it.

What are they saying?