What's Happening Right Now at Megite

5 things you may not know about me

2006-12-20T08:29:00.000-08:00

1. Co-founder of Hubat Inc if you know it around year 2000
2. An experienced software programmer
3. Always look for new inventions
4. Passion on Web2.0 and Internet startups
5. Founder of Megite

Megite Blog Has a New Home

2006-12-05T07:50:00.000-08:00

Please check out Megite Blog's New Home: http://blog.megite.com/.

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2006-11-04T23:07:00.000-08:00

Megite: What's happening right now

Megite Blog is Moving

2006-11-01T07:54:00.000-08:00

We officially move the Megite Blog to be part of our megite site. Please bookmark and visit it at http://www.megite.com/blog/. Thanks.

Megite Clustering Algorithm is Improved

2006-10-10T11:23:00.000-07:00

New clustering algorithm is implemented and it is a great leap for the quality. Check
Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock, and Microsoft's IE 7 May Beat Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 To Market, you will see.

Image Snapshots are cached

2006-10-06T00:18:00.000-07:00

Image Snapshots are cached on Megite servers. This makes Megite to have better user experience, better performance and better practice. Megite only fetches the images at the first time, then converts to small snapshots that are served from Megite server.

Megite Launches New Version

2006-10-02T22:25:00.000-07:00

Megite launches a new version with great improvements:

1. Better discovery algorithm

2. Better quality of title and summary generation

3. Better snapshot image extraction

4. The river of news, a constant flow of what's new

5. More categries are added

Megite's Quality are Improved.

2006-09-28T14:11:00.000-07:00

The quality of Megite's news discovery and ranking are significantly improved. Current we have lots of personal Megites needed to be processed. This consumes lots of resource from us and often delays the refresh of our major categories. We are thinking to stop some of the personal Megites that are not visited for quite long time, but we'd like to hear from you before we take actions.

The River of Interesting News

2006-09-26T10:22:00.000-07:00

Megite launches The River of Interesting News that is a constant flow of what is new and interesting.

By mining the "wisdom of crowds" on the web, Megite discovers the uptodate interesting news and presents them to our users with the tagcloud way. The more the users talk about it, the big the font is.

Megite has a crawler to crawl and monitor lots of important web pages that may express the interesting of users to some uptodate news. Then it aggregrates those uptodate interesting news in every minute and presents the most important ones to our main page.

The news history is kept for 24 hours and the keywords for each news are extracted and attached on each news. The keywords for all the news in an hour are used to create another tagcloud.

The River of News idea is first proposed by Dave Winer in "What is a 'River of News' style aggregator?", then he has more elaboration in "What's new for your Blackberry". There are more blogs talking about The River of News, for example, Jeff Jarvis in The river of news.

Images are included in stories

2006-03-14T07:58:00.000-08:00

Megite now includes images with the stories. Those images are intelligently extracted from the original pages. This feature is activated on all news sections including the personal Megite.

Should we hotlink images or should we make cached copies of images? We'd like to hear from you.

Link to Us

2006-03-12T15:58:00.000-08:00

To add a link to any news section on Megite news site.

Small Size Logo

With the code


<a href="http://www.megite.com/index.php?section=technology"><img src="http://www.megite.com/images/logo_notext_smaller.gif" border="0"></a>

Medium Size Logo

With the code


<a href="http://www.megite.com/index.php?section=technology"><img src="http://www.megite.com/images/logo_notext_small.gif" border="0"></a>

You can change "section=technology" to different section name or your personal Megite name.

Megite Permalink

2006-03-10T18:23:00.000-08:00

Permalink is added for each news or blog item. Now it is easy for you to refer an item from Megite.

Megite Widget

2006-03-07T01:41:00.000-08:00

If you want to include top Megite Technology headlines in your blog sidebar, use the following Javascript snippet:


<script language="JavaScript"
src="http://www.megite.com/index.php?section=technology&type=widget&bgcolor=green"
  type="text/javascript">
</script>

You can modify "section=..." with other section name, such as "section=politics".

You can also modify "bgcolor=..." with either green or gray for now, such as "bgcolor=gray".

New Interface Design

2006-03-01T04:49:00.000-08:00

Finally Megite gets a new interface, thanks to Andy Brudtkuhl at Simplifive to come out a great design for us in a very short time. Your comments and suggests are welcomed to help us further improve.

Better Title and Summary Generation

2006-02-25T22:40:00.000-08:00

We got quite a few comments to say that our title and summary needs to improve. We put lots of effort on this and now when you check our Megite News Site, you should find that the title and summary are much much better. Please keep sending your valuable comments and suggestions to us.

Improve the clustering algorithm

2006-02-24T01:50:00.000-08:00

Megite improved the clustering algorithm, but still lots of work to be done. Thanks for all your reports.

Link analysis is not enough

2006-02-22T10:44:00.000-08:00

More intelligence are introduced into our algorithm, now even without the linkage information, a blog post or news can be discovered by our intelligent algorithm and ranked into top sections based on our novel importance metrix. This is very good to look for the novel information that hasn't discovered by many bloggers yet. Check out the lastest version at Megite Tech News.

New ranking function is introduced in personal megite

2006-02-20T01:38:00.000-08:00

We introduced and implemented the new ranking function in the personal megite. A novel algorithm is used to measure the importance of the news, the blogs and the blog posts. Our initial tests show the big improvement on the quality. Of course, we need feedback from our current users who have personal megites.

Megite is alive

2006-02-19T08:48:00.000-08:00

Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs.

We like to reading tech, business and entertainment news and blogs. Everyday we have to go to tens of web sites to read my news, sometimes the same news appear on different web sites, sometimes a good news hides somewhere we didn't pay attention to. It was a frustrate experience until we create Megite. Since then, every morning, Megite is our first web site to visit to understand what is going on right now and what's important in the world. Also we told several friends to look at it, they all like them too. After lots of algorithm, interface improvement we decided to release it just at the beginning of this month (Feb). It immediately got quite some good feedbacks and some suggestions to improve the UI. Another goal is that we want the system to find more blogs and news sites to recommend us to read, not just the list we give to it. We reached this goal pretty smartly.

Megite works as the following:

Input:

a bunch of keywords, or a list of news or blog sites for a category

Process:

step 1) The sytem uses those keywords or the list to find more blogs or news site from the web. We called it data mining or auto discovery.

step 2) Some magic algorithm and ranking are used to discover the relevent and important blog posts or news.

step 3) learn from the discovered news and posts and infer more blogs and news site, then back to step 2) or output the intermedia results and push them to Megite web site.

The whole process continues without human intervention.