ProNet: Technorati Beta Launches

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New Technorati beta launches

New Technorati beta launches 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

I'm proud to announce the new Technorati redesign has launched, available at www.technorati.com. Some highlights of the new design:

1. Three free email or RSS watchlists for individuals - all you have to do is sign up as a member. Of course, people who have paid for watchlists are grandfathered in as well.


2. Lots of UI fixes and tweaks. We listened hard to all of you who told us that our UI needed a lot of work. I hope that this is a step in the right direction. We tried to do what we could to humanize the language as well - using words like "conversations" and "references" and "sources" to help better describe what Technorati does, for example. I'm sure there's a long way to go, and lots more improvements we can make. Help us.


3. Keyword Search beyond just RSS. We improved our post detection capabilities, going beyond what pure RSS gives you - so that you can search the entire post, not just the summaries often found in RSS feeds.


4. Better explanations and interfaces for Current Events and NewsTalk (formerly called Breaking News). Click on the arrows to expand or compress blogger commentary, to allow a "quick view" or a more context-rich, deeper view into the data.


5. BookTalk (formerly called Hot Products), a listing of the most talked-about books, DVDs, and other products in the blogosphere in the last 24 hours.


6. Improved features for weblog authors: First, a more robust, reliable "Claim Your Blog" codebase. Once you, as an author, have claimed your weblog, you get a bunch of new features, including the blog rank for your blog. (Find out how far off of the top 100 you are...) We're also working on a number of other "Author Dashboard" type features coming soon.


7. Caching, speedups, and bug fixes. Almost too many to mention.

A few points to note:

1. Response time of the searches is still not reliably fast enough. Some searches are fast, some take a long time. We know this is unacceptable, and we are working on this. Site reliability and faster response time are our top priorities. We are working hard to improve the user experience.


2. We're working on providing RSS and email watchlists for keyword searches as well, but it wasn't ready for the cut, so it'll go out as soon as it is ready, which should be quite soon. In the meantime, you can do keyword searches on the site, but can't get RSS or email subscriptions yet.

Send us feedback! Use feedback@technorati.com to send feedback to the Technorati team, or send comments directly to me at david-blog@sifry.com. Your thoughts and comments are extremely important to us.

Thanks again for all your support.

ProNet: Zoundry launches new Blog Writer
beta

ProNet: Zoundry launches new Blog Writer
beta 03/14/2005 06:05 PM
Zoundry has just announced a new beta release of Blog Writer, their WYSIWYG posting editor for posting to weblogs on Windows machines. The new version features drag-and-drop editing, Firefox compatibility, and a product placement engine to insert affiliate links....

ProNet: Sploid launches

ProNet: Sploid launches 04/06/2005 05:57 PM
Gawker Media's just launched Sploid, a new tabloid-style news site. Like all of Gawker's sites, it's powered by Movable Type, but the part that caught our eye was the truly distinct design style. In combination with the tone of the...

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.

New Technorati beta is live

New Technorati beta is live 06/17/2005 05:09 PM

The new Technorati beta is live. It's a redesign of the main site. Congrats to everyone who worked on it. It's much nicer looking and hopefully easier to use than before. We'd love you feedback on it. Thanks!

Lots more about this on Sifry's Alerts.

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Technorati Beta Test

Technorati Beta Test 01/22/2004 02:47 AM
Technorati has launched a beta site and it is faster for info on where they are headed check out the...

Technorati.jp beta launched

Technorati.jp beta launched 06/05/2005 11:34 PM

After months of work by the teams at Digital Garage and Technorati, we are happy to launch the Technorati Japan beta site. I noticed that some of the Japanese bloggers had already discovered our alpha site and some of the the feedback from the blogs have been incorporated into the new version that we launched today. Check out the Japanese news talk, book talk, Japanese top 100 and other features and let us know what you think.

We are still working on finding all of the bugs and figuring out exactly what the Japanese blogging community would find the most useful so your feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated. We will be working actively on improving the site and rolling out a few more features soon. Please feel free to comment here, blog on your blog send trackbacks to our blog or send us email.

Thanks again for waiting. We look forward to working with you to make Technorati a useful piece of the Japanese Internet.

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Technorati Live 8 launches

Technorati Live 8 launches 06/24/2005 09:59 PM

We just launched the Technorati Live 8 site.

Technorati Live 8

Technorati has teamed up with Live 8 to bring you the latest conversations about the campaign to Make Poverty History. Read first hand accounts of the concerts and events, and get all the news and opinion from the blogosphere.

We've also put together some resources to help you find your way around Live 8 and the blog world:

What is Live 8? Which organisations are behind Live 8?

Are you new to blogging? Find out what it's all about.

Get a Live 8 badge for your blog.

Join in the conversation and find out how to make your posts show up on Technorati.

Do more than just blog - contact the G8 leaders.

The posts listed on the Technorati Live 8 site have been written by bloggers worldwide and appear in real time from Technorati's index of 1.1 million blogs. Find out more about Technorati.

Joe Trippi called us about two weeks ago with this idea. Thanks to a guest appearance of Suw Charman as the producer of the site and extra hard work by the Technorati team, we were able to get this site out in time.

This is such a good opportunity for nations like the United States and Japan to helped their damaged images and also show their solidarity to a cause that they shouldn't have to think twice about. I'm amazed at how poor the response of some of the developed nations has been to this call. Hopefully this concert and the voice of the blogs will help get their attention.

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Technorati Launches Tags

Technorati Launches Tags 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
Tags are a simple, yet powerful, social software innovation. Today millions of people are freely and openly assigning metadata to content and conversations. Unlike rigid taxonomy schemes that people dislike, the ease of tagging for personal organization with social...

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test!

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! 01/22/2004 02:30 AM

Folks,

After 2 months of painstaking effort, I'm proud to announce the new Technorati infrastructure is up and ready for use.

Please have a look, and tell us what you think:

http://beta.technorati.com/

We focused 100% of our time on completely refurbishing our underlying event engine - essentially taking a volkswagen engine out and putting a Ferrari engine in. This new engine sports:

1) Much faster indexing - the median amount of time it takes from when someone posts something on their weblog to when it is captured and searchable via our live database is 7 minutes.

2) Much faster querying - our goal is to have every search query take less than a second, even as the database is being continuously updated. We added a query timer at the top of every results page so you can judge for yourself.

3) Much more scalable - We built this distributed database system to scale. As we track more events, we add more machines to scale. As our user traffic increases, we add more machines to scale. This should continue to work for quite some time, so we're eager to test under load.

4) Much better internationalization support - The database is entirely in UTF-8, a character set that encompasses a significant number (well, all) of non-english languages, including Japanese, Farsi, Hebrew, and many others. You can see results in multiple languages all on the same page. Localization should be significantly easier.

5) A new, smarter spider/crawler, which understands weblog posts and blogrolls much better than our old spider. You'll note that on our results pages, many results offer a "Read Full Post" capability, which take you directly to the entire microcontent post that created the link.

6) A redone results page, which should load faster, and is designed for non-browser usage as well. Lots has been moved to CSS, and we've added a nifty pager widget at the top and bottom of each page of results.

Please go and use the site - and send us feedback.

Some known issues: There are a few areas where we're still filling out content, fixing bugs and layout, like in the top 100 page, breaking news, current events, and other pages. We're looking to find showstopper bugs or problems before we move this beta infrastructure over to the production site. So, don't fret if a page you like is currently missing or if the top 100 is messed up, we're fixing that. You may also see a change in your inbound blogs/links numbers, but that is primarily due to the fact that we're still bringing the new database up to speed, so we know that some of the numbers are different.

Thanks again for your time and patience, and on behalf of the entire Technorati team, we thank you for all of your support. We're really looking forward to your feedback.

Technorati launches Related Tags

Technorati launches Related Tags 04/09/2005 02:47 PM
Ever wanted to see what posts are related to other posts, what tags are related to others? Now you can! Just check under the Tag description on most tag pages, like this one, or this one, and you'll see...

"Sifry's Alerts: New Technorati
Infrastructure beta test!"

"Sifry's Alerts: New Technorati
Infrastructure beta test!" 01/22/2004 02:49 AM

ProNet: Blog Jobs Abound for ProNet
Members

ProNet: Blog Jobs Abound for ProNet
Members 03/14/2005 06:05 PM
Pardon the promotional interruption, but if you're reading the Professional Network website or feed and haven't had the time to sign up as a member, you've got a little extra incentive to join the Network today. If you take a...

MSN Launches Toolbar Beta

MSN Launches Toolbar Beta 01/26/2004 09:54 PM
Microsoft joins its major online competitors with a download to add portal services such as search and e-mail directly to the Web browser.

Microsoft Launches Second Office Beta

Microsoft Launches Second Office Beta 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
The applications in Microsoft's Office suite are sporting new names as the software titan moves to put data interchange at the heart of its office productivity platform.

Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta

Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta 01/23/2004 10:59 PM
Launched Friday, Yahoo's new RSS Headlines service gathers multiple syndication feeds onto a user's custom My Yahoo page.

Novell Launches OES Beta (NewsFactor)

Novell Launches OES Beta (NewsFactor) 12/28/2004 05:05 PM
NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is offering a test version of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) platform, a blend of the company's proprietary networking software and open source technology that the company said promises to offer businesses greater flexibility with I.T. systems.

MSN Launches Local Search Beta

MSN Launches Local Search Beta 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
Microsoft's MSN business unit has planted local roots. Monday, MSN announced a beta of an Internet search service that corrals local business and residential listings together with maps and satellite images. MSN Local Search follows rivals AOL, Google and Yahoo as the latest purveyor of geographic based Web searches.

Microsoft Launches Web Messenger Beta

Microsoft Launches Web Messenger Beta 07/26/2004 07:44 PM

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Yahoo Launches Beta of Local Search

Yahoo Launches Beta of Local Search 08/03/2004 11:36 PM
Yahoo has announced a beta search of a new Yahoo Local, at http://local.yahoo.com . Instead of the stuff you might remember from Yahoo Get Local, this is a search that...

Micrsoft launches MSN music store beta

Micrsoft launches MSN music store beta 09/01/2004 05:44 PM
Microsoft has launched a beta version of its MSN music service, which offers 99 cent downloads in Windows Media format...

Microsoft launches MSN music store beta

Microsoft launches MSN music store beta 09/02/2004 02:07 AM
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A9, amazon's search service, launches in
beta

A9, amazon's search service, launches in
beta 04/14/2004 03:58 PM
these are good days for cool new tech

Yahoo Japan launches bl0g beta

Yahoo Japan launches bl0g beta 02/01/2005 09:25 PM
Softbank's Yahoo Japan unit tests a site for bloggers, something the domestic Yahoo doesn't yet have.

Microsoft launches anti-spyware beta

Microsoft launches anti-spyware beta 01/06/2005 11:12 AM
The company unveils the first version of a spyware-killing application based on technology from recently acquired Giant Software.
Images: Microsoft's anti-spyware beta

Local-i Restaurant Search Site Launches
in Beta

Local-i Restaurant Search Site Launches
in Beta 07/16/2004 11:31 AM
Source: ClickZ - New restaurant search engine Local-i aims to take a bite out of the lucrative local search market....

Microsoft launches beta of digital music
download service

Microsoft launches beta of digital music
download service 09/01/2004 06:57 PM
Xeni Jardin: MSN Music launched today. From a CBS Marketwatch report:

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled details of a new service for downloading digital music, placing it squarely in competition with Apple's rival iTunes music service. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft will launch a preview version of its new MSN Music service tomorrow that will allow users to legally download songs mostly for 99 cents each. The service will also make entire albums available, the majority of which will cost $9.99, the company said. Microsoft's push into the arena for downloadable music trails Apple's hugely successful iPod digital music player and its own iTunes music service. Apple also charges 99 cents for each song downloaded through iTunes.

Link to news report, and Link to MSN Music home page. (Thanks, Jean-Luc)

Update: Jason Schultz points out the system requirements list, which contains some interesting items:

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Internet Explorer 5.01 (or later), which supports 128-bit encryption
Windows Media Player 7.1 (or later), we recommend the latest version
A 233 megahertz (MHz) processor (such as an Intel Pentium II or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processor) or faster
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM or more
Speakers and sound capability
Payment with a valid credit card with a U.S. billing address
To enjoy high-quality audio as a Radio Plus subscriber, you will need Windows Media Player 9 Series (or later)

Link

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio
Express, VS 2005 Beta

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio
Express, VS 2005 Beta 06/29/2004 10:45 AM

AllPeers Launches Private Beta Program
for Cutting-Edge P2P Platform

AllPeers Launches Private Beta Program
for Cutting-Edge P2P Platform 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
Over the past four years, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have proven to be a faster, more efficient and financially more attractive proposition for distribution of digital content than software based on the World Wide Web [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]

Read All About It: MSNBC.com Launches
Newsbot Beta Powered by MSN Search
Technology

Read All About It: MSNBC.com Launches
Newsbot Beta Powered by MSN Search
Technology 07/29/2004 01:29 PM
MSNBC.com today begins its test of the MSNBC Newsbot, a new way to give consumers personalized online news powered by the latest MSN® search technology. For a limited time starting today, consumers may participate in testing this first-of-its-kind "personal newsstand" service that automatically taps user preferences to search for news from more than 4,800 sources. "We've put the strongest assets of MSN and NBC News to work for consumers with MSNBC.com Newsbot, the only news search engine on the Web that offers personalized news using advanced MSN Search technology," said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN Information Services and Merchant Platform. "By providing a variety of ways to personalize the service, people have more control over how and where they get their news, which we're confident will convince people to return every day, much as they would to a neighborhood newsstand."

Yahoo! FareChase Launches Beta for
Hotels; Travel Search Engine Saves
Consumers Time, Effort and Money When Bo

Yahoo! FareChase Launches Beta for
Hotels; Travel Search Engine Saves
Consumers Time, Effort and Money When Bo 04/04/2005 06:45 AM
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Planetwide Games, Inc. Launches "RISK
YOUR LIFE" (Open Beta) - Massively
Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Planetwide Games, Inc. Launches "RISK
YOUR LIFE" (Open Beta) - Massively
Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game 09/22/2004 02:26 PM
Risk Your Life is one of the few MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) that bring you an online Virtual reality atmosphere that is both completely interactive and immersive. RYL is a well-balanced MMORPG developed under a 3D environment that allows players to create their own character, define its role, do battle with it in a virtual world. [PRWEB Sep 20, 2004]

Planetwide Games Launches "RYL: Path of
the Emporer" (Open Beta) Massively
Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Planetwide Games Launches "RYL: Path of
the Emporer" (Open Beta) Massively
Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
Also offer rare lifetime RYL Founders Guild Membership opportunity. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

News: Skype beta launches SkypeIn, Skype
Voicemail

News: Skype beta launches SkypeIn, Skype
Voicemail 04/15/2005 03:58 PM
Internet telephony company Skype on Friday announced the public beta launch of SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail. The two new premium services are available in the latest download versions of its software for Mac OS X and other platforms.

ProNet: EPIDEMIca

ProNet: EPIDEMIca 06/06/2005 12:12 AM
The variety and breadth of ideas that weblogs can cover continues to be amazing. Witness one of the latest efforts, EPIDEMIca, a weblog about infectious diseases. Powered by Movable Type, this site adopts a serious tone and a professional look...

ProNet: Here come the Feds!

ProNet: Here come the Feds! 03/14/2005 06:06 PM
CNET News.com interviews Bradley Smith, one of the six commissioners of the United States Federal Election Comission. Though there's few specifics, the conversation covers the idea that the FEC might be considering the impact that weblogs have on elections, and...

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco 06/17/2005 02:05 PM
Though it's short notice, we'll have a number of Six Apart staff members participating in some events in San Francisco tonight where bloggers are gathering. We'd love to meet you there. First, with the release of the Tags plugin for...

ProNet: blo.gs goes to Yahoo

ProNet: blo.gs goes to Yahoo 06/17/2005 02:04 PM
blo.gs is one of the most popular update pinging services, having been a default service in Movable Type and TypePad for years. Today, Jim Winstead, the service's creator, has announced that blo.gs was sold to Yahoo, after announcing a change...

ProNet: Purseuing

ProNet: Purseuing 03/22/2005 06:45 PM
Another entry in the growing number of topic-specific blogs is the new Purseuing. Dedicated to covering everything having to do with handbags, purses, and totes, it's a cleanly-designed new Movable Type-powered site that covers its niche well. Perfect for inspiration...
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