The website has been described as "a one-page, aggregated, filtered, archiveable summary in near real-time of what is new and generating conversation".

[2] Gabe Rivera was a compiler software engineer at Intel[3] before launching tech.memeorandum on September 12, 2005.

"Anti-gaming" efforts have been made to lower the effect that a high number of links can have on a story if the links were created in a short period of time, or by a small number of people.

In December 2008, the original automated process was supplemented by two human editors—Megan McCarthy and Omer Horvitz—who manage the mix of headlines.

Three additional editors were added in November 2009, Rich DeMuro, Lidija Davis and Mahendra Palsule.