Introducing The Discovery Engine for the Blogosphere

SocialRank monitors thousands of blogs in popular categories and identifies the hottest stories and bloggers every day. We do this democratically by measuring what stories users link to, talk about and pay attention to.

The result? You now know the hottest stories and blogs in your favorite fields.

Featured SocialRank powered Blog Communities

Productivity Zen

Make more out of life! You'll find the top tips and articles about productivity here.

Marketing Lens

We dug deep into the community of marketing blogs to surface only the hottest posts on marketing.

Knitting Friends

Knitting rocks and you know it! We dive into all the good knitting blogs to give you the top 15 posts.

Startup Signal

Web entrepreneurs share the latest insights on starting a new Internet business.

Latest Updates from the SocialRank Team

30th Jan

Great review of www.SweetSecondLife.com 12 Comments »

It is 6:00AM over here and I just picked up my cup of morning coffee when I was plesently surprised to come across a great review of www.SweetSecondLife.com.  Thanks for the coverage!  Plus, if you liked this site, just wait until you get to checkout the all new www.SocialRank.com site that we are working on!

27th Jan

SocialRank Interviewed by Mike Moran 1 Comment »

Here is a great interview of SocialRank that was just published on Mike Moran’s blog.

Click here to read the SocialRank interview.

3rd Jan

Discover the Top Blogs on Journalism 3 Comments »

Adam Tinworth is trying to have his blog move up the list of the top journalism blogs in the blogosphere.  Since he asked so nicely on his blog post on Journalism Daily Bloggy Hack Tracking we figured we would fall for the link bait and send him some love!  ;)

Thanks for recommending JournalismDaily and SocialRank to your readers.

3rd Jan

How to find stuff in the blogosphere 1 Comment »

The Small Business Building Blocks blog had a good post today featuring SocialRank.  Thanks for helping to make your readers aware of SocialRank and that we are working on solving the problem of how to find stuff in the blogosphere.

4th Dec

Is anyone paying attention? 6 Comments »

Technorati just relaunched their home page to focus on Search and Discovery stating that sometimes people prefer to just browse and casually discover the top stories of the day. 

I could not agree more, which is why at SocialRank we have exclusively focused on creating the single most compelling discovery engine for the blogosphere.  If you have been to any of our sites such as www.MightyBlogger.com or www.ProductivityZen.com, then you know what I mean. 

Fundamentally, I wonder whether there is a new paradim on surfacing the “most interesting” stories that are coming up in the blogosphere and whether there is a flaw with the traditional measure of “attention.”

Here is my working hypothesis:

What people are paying attention to right now is NOT always the most interesting story

For example, just because a lot of people link to TechCrunch does not mean that TechCrunch has anything interesting to say.  TechCrunch just has so much reach that virtually any of their stories will get more links than even excellent posts from smaller blogs. 

At SocialRank, we have created a new algorithm that takes this into consideration and so we focus on “interestingness” as opposed to “popularity.”  We believe that over time as we tweak our algorithm we will be able to surface far more “interesting” stories, which will create a richer experience and allow people to discover posts that they would have otherwise missed. 

This blog post was inspired by the latest TechCrunch review of Technorati