Regator.com was a curated blog directory and search engine. Founded in 2007 by Scott Lockhart, Chris Turner, and Kimberly Turner and going live with Regator.com in August 2008, Regator LLC also produces Regator Breaking News and the Regator iPhone App for

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. The

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platform also allows for detailed trend tracking and analyzing text. The Breaking News app regularly breaks stories faster than news outlets such as

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, the '' Huffington Post'', and

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History

Regator was founded in 2007 by Scott Lockhart, Chris Turner, and Kimberly Turner. It publicly launched in August 2008, and was headquartered in

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. Lockhart was a former technology executive and consultant on building online businesses for large companies. He worked for various large

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companies,

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, and was a co-founder of the hardware company HardwareOne, which was based in Sydney, Australia. Chris Turner was a programmer with experience in web, mobile, and video game development. He graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from

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, and has been active in the independent video game community. Kimberly Turner was a magazine editor and journalist, with pieces appearing in American and Australian magazines such as ''

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'', ''Business to Business'', ''Outdoor'', ''Massive'', ''ADB'', and ''Roost,'' among others. She earned a master's degree in

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from the

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, and was a regular contributor to ProBlogger.net.

Recognition

Regator.com was named by

as one of the top 100 web products of 2009, one of the top tools for tracking topics on the web, and received an honorable mention for top RSS & syndication technologies of 2009. Mashable awarded Regator.com third-place in the category of Social News in its 2008

. CNET named the free Regator iPhone app one of the top 10 iPhone apps of 2009, and Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb put it among his top 5 iPhone apps of 2009. Regator for iPhone also received an honorable mention (along with apps from

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, ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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'') in the news category of the 2010 Best App Ever awards.

Technology

Regator.com

Regator serves as an interactive blog directory, and all blogs are curated by human editors for quality. About 18% of blogs that are nominated for inclusion on the site are approved. The included blogs generate tens of thousands of new posts daily. Regator also has an archive of curated content going back to 2007. Blogs that are un-updated for a long period of time without an explanation are removed from Regator.com. The site allows readers to add non-Regator blogs to view on their personalized My Regator page, though these blogs are not shared with the Regator community. Regator also has free widgets so bloggers can display Regator trends, searches, or posts on their website.

Regator Platform

Regator's semantic

uses

proprietary {{Short pages monitor