On October 1st, SocialRank introduced Sweet Second Life, which could be considered a Techmeme for the Second Life crowd. Once SocialRank decides on a niche to monitor, they invite a set number of bloggers from that niche to go about their business of blogging. From there, they manually identify the top stories, related blogs, and topics. After several weeks, a complex algorithm learns from the patterns and is able to spot the hottest news on it's own!From what I can tell, it monitors the traffic to the blog entry, number of trackbacks, and comments at the very least. At that point, it recommends the 15 top posts of the moment, and the 15 blogs that showed the greatest increase in traffic for the day. Once it identifies the entry as a success, it sends a trackback to it, if possible.
Not only are they keeping viewers informed of the stats, but they're also gaining new viewers in the bloggers that check out the incoming link! I was even able to spot a few blogs that I'd never checked out before. It's brilliant!
1. This is Vishen from the SocialRank team.
Thanks so much for pointing us out. Yeah - we're pretty excited about this. We were stunned at how huge the SecondLife blogging community way. We will have a few related sites going up. SweetGaming.com is for the console crowd and GadgetRoll.com is on tech and gadget news.
I love how succintly you described what we do. Thanks you so much.
Posted at 6:41AM on Oct 5th 2007 by Vishen