Kinja
Encyclopedia
Kinja is a free online news aggregator in beta form, launched in April 2004.
of Gawker Media
and Meg Hourihan
of Pyra Labs
created Kinja, which began as an investigation into the navigation of web logs. It was dubbed Kinja in October of 2003.
Kinja operated from April 2004 to April 30, 2008.
s, Kinja providing the user with excerpts of recent posts of the chosen logs. These excerpts, known as personal "digests", were compiled into one page's worth of excerpts, with other categorized compilations available based on such labels as media, music, liberal, conservative, and more. A user's personal choice of digests were easily available to any outside user, allowing others to share their favorite blogs and recent blog posts. Utilizing a webcrawler
dubbed Kinjabot, (similar to Google's webcrawler
s) Kinja created an internal index of all available web logs as defined by Kinjabot.
History
With the intention of making web logs more accessible to the public, Nick DentonNick Denton
Nick Denton, born August 24, 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com...
of Gawker Media
Gawker Media
Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. , it is the parent company for 11 different weblogs: Gawker.com, Fleshbot,...
and Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. She published weblogs at and...
of Pyra Labs
Pyra Labs
Pyra Labs is the company that coined the word Blog, creating the service Blogger.The co-founders were Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, and the company's first product, also named 'Pyra', was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list...
created Kinja, which began as an investigation into the navigation of web logs. It was dubbed Kinja in October of 2003.
Kinja operated from April 2004 to April 30, 2008.
Usage
Kinja was a personal web service that allowed its users to "bookmark" blogBlog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
s, Kinja providing the user with excerpts of recent posts of the chosen logs. These excerpts, known as personal "digests", were compiled into one page's worth of excerpts, with other categorized compilations available based on such labels as media, music, liberal, conservative, and more. A user's personal choice of digests were easily available to any outside user, allowing others to share their favorite blogs and recent blog posts. Utilizing a webcrawler
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing Search , Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. WebCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages...
dubbed Kinjabot, (similar to Google's webcrawler
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing Search , Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. WebCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages...
s) Kinja created an internal index of all available web logs as defined by Kinjabot.
Sources
- New York Times Blog-Bleary? Try (What Else?) a Blog Thursday, April 1, 2004