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Tailrank has launched Spinner, a service that has opened up its platform and infrastructure to all those who want to crawl the blogosphere and do something about it.

So now you don’t need to build a spider, crawl the blogosphere and build a huge index just so that you have to do something about it. Just use Tailrank´s index via an API which already has 1M blogs indexed, crawls 25K posts/hour, spam protection, language categorization, complex trust ranking, real time ping support and so on.

This will surely be a game changer, I have always believed that there is more room in being an infrastructure provider than in competing on the application end. The success of Amazon S3 as a storage infrastructure and VideoEgg as a video platform for social networks is a proof of the viability of this approach.

While you are at it, you might also like to know what all existing meme trackers lack.

Competitors of Tailrank include Megite and Techmeme.