CNN and Technorati - Partners at last!

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Technorati has a new look

Technorati has a new look 07/27/2004 12:42 AM

Technorati main page layout has changed and looks great. [Technorati]

What is Technorati?

What is Technorati? 01/22/2004 02:29 AM

If you're one of the tens of thousands of people who use Technorati every day, you'll notice that most of our changes (on the new beta site so far have been under the hood. Changes to the body have been minimal. As a result, we've been scratching our heads because we've never explained exactly what Technorati *is*. For that matter, we've never explained much about what a "cosmos" is, either -- even though that's what Technorati finds in its searches.

So I thought it would make sense to ask you what Technorati is. Is it a search engine for blogs? A conversation engine? Or something else again?

Same with "cosmos." Is there a more self-explanatory word for what Technorati finds? Or a better way to say exactly what "cosmos" means?

Let us know. We'd like to hear from you. Thanks!

Technorati and CNN

Technorati and CNN 07/21/2004 04:38 PM

A few minutes ago CNN announced that Technorati will be providing real-time analysis of the political blogosphere at next week's Democratic National Convention. I will be on-site in CNN's convention broadcast center, along with Mary Hodder, and I'll be providing regular on-air commentary on what bloggers are saying about politics and the convention. And on Sunday, July 25, we'll launch a new section of our site for political coverage: politics.technorati.com. This site will make it easy for bloggers,
journalists, and anyone interested in politics to see the postings of the most linked-to political bloggers, to track the ideas with the fastest-growing buzz, and to monitor conversations in thousands of other political blogs. CNN.com will link to this site, and we'll be updating the CNN site with the latest from the blogosphere.

This is a very exciting development for us at Technorati, and a great acknowledgement of the importance that blogging has achieved in political discourse. We're incredibly humbled by this opportunity. It provides us with a great way to serve all of you who make this amazing new medium possible. We take this responsibility very seriously and hope to make you proud.

Technorati v2

Technorati v2 01/22/2004 02:35 AM

Congrats to Dave Sifry, Kevin Marks and the rest of the Technorati team!

[FoT] New Technorati Beta officially launched!

Technorati

Technorati 03/08/2004 11:13 PM

I have decided to take on an additional role outside of Neoteny working with Technorati's team heading their exploration of opportunities in the mobile and international realms.

I will be splitting my time between Neoteny, Six Apart and Technorati as my primary responsibilities with board positions on SocialText, Creative Commons and a few other companies and non-profits as additional roles.

Technorati will be at the RNC

Technorati will be at the RNC 08/27/2004 07:02 PM

CNN has invited Technorati back to provide real time analysis of bloggers blogging about the Republican National Convention. Thanks CNN! More on Sifry's Alerts.

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New Technorati

New Technorati 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
My favorite thing about the new Technorati is that it now differentiates between links to a blog from an actual...

Technorati β

Technorati β 01/22/2004 03:04 AM
Check out the Technorati Beta; several days each week I think Technorati is at The White-Hot Center Of It All, but that rests on the assumption that blogs are meaningful or even (dare I say the word) important. And I just don’t know; I’m too close to the problem. But I sure go there a lot.

Technorati Gets a New Look

Technorati Gets a New Look 06/24/2005 04:40 PM
It was in beta for a little while, but it looks as if Technorati's new look has gone live at http://www.technorati.com . Aside from the page redesign, there's also most...

What's up with Technorati

What's up with Technorati 11/17/2003 05:46 AM
David Sifry's Technorati service -- a blogmining and analysis system that can tell you the shape and velocity of the blogosphere at any given moment -- has been cranky and creaky for a couple days now. Sifry has posted an update to his blog, with info on how things are going and the difficulty of keeping pace with blogging's amazing growth.

Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.

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"Technorati"

"Technorati" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

Technorati keywords

Technorati keywords 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Keyword search ads are live
By dsifry

Well, there's been a lot going on over at Technorati, and I've been so busy that blogging has been pretty light. I hope that I can blog more often as the summer continues.

Anyway, here's some fun news that I'm happy to report: Technorati has taken its first steps towards the business models that we've chosen: We've rolled out keyword search advertising on the website. You'll notice the "Sponsored Links" box on the right hand side of the results page on many terms that you do searches upon. This is done through a partnership we have with findwhat.com, and quite frankly, it is just a first step. There's a lot of improvements and changes that we want to make, and this is definitely a "crawl-before-you-walk" kind of opportunity, but it is a first step. For example, I want to have a system that makes it easier to do targeting (blog-based? topic based? authority-based?) and get better reporting. We're also really interested in your feedback - leave a comment or a link, or drop us a line at feedback@technorati.com. We are also working on implementing a lot of the great feedback we got at the developer's forum last month.

Oh yeah - if you're interested in seeing your ads on technorati.com search results today, here's how you get more information.

Lastly, big kudos to all the folks back at the office, who made this happen - you guys rock.

[Sifry's Alerts]

Technorati toolbar

Technorati toolbar 06/02/2004 11:18 PM
Technorati Toolbar.

I'm developing the Technorati Toolbar for Internet Explorer. It enables you to look up references from blogs that point to the web page you're reading, and lots of other cool stuff. I'm developing an open-ended plug-in system: Technorati Toolbar Plug-ins will extend the Technorati Toolbar to support popular blogging tools, render interactive interfaces to dynamic web services, and integrate other tools and services into high level, practical, task oriented user interfaces.

[Don Hopkins' RadiOMatic BlogUTron]

This is gonna be key.

Coming soon from Technorati

Coming soon from Technorati 07/21/2004 08:16 PM
politics.technorati.com .. brewing

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"politics.technorati.com"

"politics.technorati.com" 07/22/2004 09:19 AM

Technorati redesigns again

Technorati redesigns again 07/26/2004 02:25 PM
a vast improvement, good enough for a first visit from CNN's audience

Technorati Salon

Technorati Salon 05/19/2004 05:45 PM

I have a late afternoon meeting in the City today so I am thinking about stopping by at Technorat i Developer's Salon afterward for pizza, beer, conversation, and adventure (I never been to that part of the town -- Do I need to bring my urban jungle knife, David?).  Maybe I'll see you there.

Technorati picked this up for me

Technorati picked this up for me 05/07/2004 05:00 AM
walkah
4 inbound blogs, 11 inbound links (Last updated 5 hours 20 minutes ago)

Technorati support

Technorati support 04/15/2004 10:18 PM

You can now track who is linking to particular posts on my blog by clicking the Technorati link next to link next to trackbacks at the bottom of the post. The result is similar to trackbacks, but these links are links that have been discovered by Technorati, whereas trackbacks are links that are sent to me directly by other bloggers. Boing Boing recently started Technorati support and Dave Sifry explains how to add this to your blog. Since I don't get as many links as Boing Boing, clicking the Technorati link will often yield no results. I think we need to figure out a way to easily show how many links from Technorati, just like comments and trackbacks so people will know whether they should click or not. Adriaan's got it running on his blog using the Technorati API, but it's a bit dodgy still so I'm going to wait for a better solution. ;-)

In order to make these results more accurate, it would be great if people made a point to link as much as possible to the permalinks rather than the top level URL when referring to entries in blogs.

Technorati is hiring!

Technorati is hiring! 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

Technorati is looking for great engineers and product folks, including an Infrastructure Engineer/Lead, UI Engineer, Operations Infrastructure Engineer, Product Engineer, Director of Product Marketing / Production, and Director of Sales / Syndication. If you have the attitude to lay your ego at the door and work your ass off and the chops to make incredible things happen with a great team in San Francisco, we're looking for you. Don't email me directly - send all inquiries to jobs@technorati.com.

Technorati + Amazon

Technorati + Amazon 02/10/2004 02:41 PM
Technorati Cosmos Products

Technorati beta up

Technorati beta up 01/22/2004 03:04 AM

The new Technorati beta site is up. It's really fast.

Sorry about the terse post. I'm in Frankfurt airport about to board a flight to Zurich. On PowerBook-bluetooth->Nokia 6600-gprs->T-Mobile.

Technorati talk

Technorati talk 02/10/2004 02:44 PM

Sifry, "Blog this link." Cool Amazon hack. Dave whipped it together at 2am last night after a chat with John Battelle.

The cosmos that shows the people who have just blogged the link is here.

"Do you know about power laws? Well fuck it, I've got the data."

[etech] Technorati

[etech] Technorati 02/10/2004 02:48 PM
Dave Sifry, another of my heroes, is listing some of Technorati's stats: 1.6M sources, a new weblog every 8 seconds, the index updated within 7 mins of a posting. [I'm here even though I alsoreally wanted to see Eric Boabeau's talk] [Damn! My first draft of this put this badly! I left the "also" out of the previous sentence. I'm here because Technorati is so damn cool and interesting. And so is Eric.] Dave shows a hack he created last night: A list of the top products discussed in the last 24 hours. He has us post to our blogs...

Technorati Ups the Ante

Technorati Ups the Ante 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
Dave Sifry and his crew at Technorati have greatly improved their blog text search feature. A work in progress, but quite useful already.

Technorati supports RVW

Technorati supports RVW 02/10/2004 02:54 PM

Dave Sifry has just announced that Technorati is supporting Alf Eaton's RVW format - for subscribing reviews.

Blogware also supports it!

More details later.

Technorati BlogThreads

Technorati BlogThreads 04/13/2004 08:49 AM
Technorati has made it easy to see which other blogs are commenting on one of your blog entries. Click on "BlogThread" at the end of one of my entries to see how it works. (For purposes of example, pick one that has some TrackBacks.) Dave Sifry explains how to do it here. This is a lot like TrackBacks, which were introduced by MovableType, except the aggregation of referring sites is done by Technorati as part of its continuous polling of the blogosphere. With TrackBacks, your blogging software automatically pings aggregation sites whenever you post anything. Technorati's feature — which I'm...

Technorati trackbacks

Technorati trackbacks 04/13/2004 12:37 PM
BoingBoing's other blogs commenting on this post feature, added yesterday, has provoked a flurry of responses. Co-incidentally, I had just made myself a Technorati Trackback bookmarklet: drag to your toolbar, then click while visiting a blog article to see Technorati's roundup of posts commenting on the article. ...

Trackback via Technorati

Trackback via Technorati 01/27/2004 12:35 PM

Apparently not too many people realize that Technorati can be used to track references to individual posts.  To demonstrate using here is track back-via-Technorati to my Ads in Feeds post.  Beware that the link uses Technorati beta service for speed sake.

What I am not sure if Dave intended Technorati to be used this way.

Why Technorati tags don't

Why Technorati tags don't 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Tagging has become the latest hype word-du-jour, mostly due to services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and now, Technorati. Clay Shirky and others have written strong statements for this folksonomy phenomenon.

I personally love tags. They are a very cool way of attaching meaning to information - essentially put the semantics in the web in the "Semantic Web" sense, even if the metadata is dissociated from the pages themselves. But as a non-English speaker I see a potentially fatal flaw here: Most Internet users don't speak English as their first language. Even if I speak decent English and use a lot of English services, I still tag things in both English and my native language.

And that means that tags will become "language polluted." Take a look at the Technorati tag for "Macintosh& ;quot;, for example. Many of the blog entries are in Japanese.

If you look at Orkut, many of the parts of it suddenly became &a mp;quot;owned" by Brasilians, which essentially drove away English speakers (I haven't checked how they have handled this). USENET coped with this by having separate hierarchies for each country (so sfnet is all Finnish) and "accepted" languages on each newsgroup. But tags don't have any way to determine the language.

The situation is worse than it should be, because entries on RSS feeds and blogs almost never state what their language is. In fact, I would guess that most RSS feeds claim that the language is "en-US" regardless of their actual content. People like me write in two languages on the same blog. Atom has the possibility of setting the language-per-entry, but I sincerely doubt that anyone will bother to set the language, unless they are relatively passionate about the subject.

There are three cases of "language collision" on tags (I'm using English and Finnish as an example only here).

1. The tag is different in English and in Finnish. For example "fishing" and "kalastus". This should pose no problem, as the folksonomies grow on each of the tags independently.
2. The tag is the same in English and in language Finnish, but the meaning of the tag is different. In this case, the dominant mass of the users will "hijack" the tag.
3. The tag is the same in both languages, but the web pages will be in different languages. This is the case with things like trade marks (Apple, Macintosh, Nokia), or when people like to tag Finnish pages with English tags (like me: I use the word "blog" to mark any significant articles about blogs, regardless of the language). This reduces the usefulness of tags for people who do not understand Finnish.

There is also an additional tagging problem with languages such as Finnish: the same word can be conjugated and written in multiple ways, depending on the context. It is somewhat the same as the problem of using different words for the same concept, but it does make the number of potential strings increase three-fourfold.

There are few solutions to this problem: and probably all of them involve some sort of heuristic to determine the language of the tag and the web page. Tagging is still a relatively new technique to be adopted in mass classification of things, but in order for it to become truly successful, one must still remember localization. Otherwise, it will be the dominance of the masses

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WebService-Technorati-0.04

WebService-Technorati-0.04 01/01/2005 12:54 AM

What is Technorati (in Japanese)

What is Technorati (in Japanese) 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Masahiko Satoh posts an extensive explanation of Technorati in Japanese for folks in Japan trying to understand better what the service does, and how it works. Thanks Masahiko!...

Technorati Japan

Technorati Japan 12/22/2004 01:55 AM

Technorati and Digital Garage just announced that they will work together to set up Technorati Japan which will be established as a subsidiary of Digital Garage and will distribute Technorati services in Japan. I am a co-founder and former co-CEO of Digital Garage. Digital Garage was a company that Kaoru Hayashi and I established in 1994 and we merged his advertising business and my Internet business together. We ran the company together and did a bunch of things like bring Infoseek to Japan. I later left the company to help run Infoseek Japan when it was spun out. This is the first real work I've done with Digital Garage since I left. It is really deja vu. When we brought Infoseek to Japan, people didn't understand the concept of ad impressions and we had to do a lot of teaching. We had to explain that impressions and clickthroughs could be measured unlike sponsorships and ads in magazines.

With Technorati Japan, we're going to go through a similar process again, this time explaining that it's now about conversations. We need to explain that companies and people can see what other people are saying in real time and participate in the conversations, and that it's not about banner ads anymore. I'm also excited that we will soon have a Japanese Technorati site for all of the Japanese bloggers.

We hope to get the service running sometime next year, but we're going to get started right away trying to get people to understand what this real live web and conversation stuff is all about.

Obviously, Japan is just the first step in our international strategy, but it's nice being able to do it with a team that I know and trust. It's also fun watching my old family meet and work with my new family. And last but not least, welcome to our family Gen. Gen left Sony and joined Digital Garage to work on Technorati Japan.

Dave has blogged about this too.

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Technorati XML icons

Technorati XML icons 03/20/2003 07:49 PM
Top 100 Technorati now sports the familiar while on orange icons for a number of feeds.  Doing a quick scan the pattern seems to be that those weblogs that have autodiscovery tags are so listed.

technorati gets funded

technorati gets funded 08/23/2004 12:50 PM
appropriate that om got this scoop on a blog instead of a print mag

Technorati: Live 8

Technorati: Live 8 06/24/2005 05:57 PM
Technorati le da seguimiento a Live 8 .. And then blog about it .. live8.technorati.com .. €™Ž© Live8

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"Technorati Links"

"Technorati Links" 06/24/2004 09:14 PM

"Technorati: Live 8"

"Technorati: Live 8" 06/24/2005 09:49 PM

Is Technorati Broken?

Is Technorati Broken? 08/01/2004 03:21 PM

Technorati has a paid service that will send you daily updates via e-mail on who has linked to you. I subscribe to that service and like another site have never received a daily e-mail. I end up having to go back to Technorati and manually doing a search. Apparently they know they have a problem I just wonder why it is taking them so long to fix it. [v-2.org] [Technorati]

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CNN and Technorati - Partners at last!

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