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class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/jen_mclean.jpg" alt="Jen McLean"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Jen McLean</a></cite> on August 6, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/08/515.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F08%2F515.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>About six months ago, we started shifting large numbers of blogs over to our new crawler starting in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/02/473.html"> February </a> and finishing things up in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/03/486.html"> March. </a> The new crawler brought many advantages, among them is that it does a much better job of focusing on post contents. As part of the switch, we intentionally stopped indexing links outside of posts, including blogroll links, which don’t signify the relevance of an author’s intent to link to specific content. Technorati is tracking what is being actively discussed in the blogosphere; a static link doesn't tell us if there's anything of particular interest there right now. This change is now showing up in Technorati Authority numbers. As the blogroll links indexed by the old spider age past 180 days, they are no longer included in Authority calculations. We expect Authority numbers to continue to drop for the next 5-6 weeks until the last of the blogroll links age past 180 days. The resulting Authority numbers will be lower than they were last month, but will be a better indicator of how much attention a blog is actively receiving.</p> <p>The new crawler also relies more heavily on feed data. To be certain that your full posts and all of your links are indexed, please provide a full-content feed. As some blogs only provide partial or plain-text feeds, we may not collect links from those posts.<br/> <br/> As a further heads-up, we’re currently working on a new Authority Rank algorithm for launch later this year. This new algorithm will represent a fairly significant change, but also one that more closely represents the live web of today. Stay tuned!</p> <p> As those of you who <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://twitter.com/technorati"> follow us on Twitter </a> know, there was a system failure early last week that caused Authority numbers to drop; we have recovered that data and the current Authority numbers are correct. If we've indexed a post of yours in the past few days, then you should be seeing your full authority.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We have completed the colo move</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on June 3, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/06/509.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F06%2F509.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Our colo move from one end of San Francisco to the other was completed this past Monday. We have successfully moved nearly 900 machines while reducing our overall rack footprint by more than 50%. This major reduction will help us manage our systems better, keep things running better, save a ton of money, and, as an added benefit, consume a lot less power, thus being a wee bit more friendly to the planet.</p> <p>We had a hard deadline and only 5 weeks to complete the move. We moved quickly and as cautiously as possible. We did have outages and I apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused you, our Technorati users. We still have cleanup, networking to optimize, systems to stabilize, and the routine work of running a real-time blog search engine and ad platform, but things are calming down. This move makes great economic sense for us going forward and the pain of the last few weeks, though unpleasant, was worth enduring since we are now much better positioned for success going forward.</p> <p>I want to thank the Technorati Operations team for their die hard dedication, positive attitude, and professionalism. I'd also like to thank all of you for sticking with us. We look forward to serving you, the bloggers, readers, and advertisers, for a long, long time.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Colo move update - mostly good, some bad</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 17, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/05/508.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F05%2F508.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We have moved over 2/3 of the servers and have all systems enabled at this time. Performance has crept back down to much more acceptable levels, but not where we want it to be nor where it was before we started the move. We will continue to optimize the configuration of the servers and network.</p> <p>You can see some of our progress, and some of what this ordeal has been like, here:</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://grabperf.org/compare.php?test=1&tests[]=2&tests[]=36&tests[]=192&tests[]=277&tests[]=278">GrapPERF for Technorati</a></p> <p>Separately, we had a few hosts fail over the weekend, which is unfortunate but to be expected when they get moved. Those have been rebooted or replaced and, as of this writing, search and tags are working, though a bit slow.</p> <p><strong>What's not working so well</strong></p> <p>A lot of you on Twitter have said that "Technorati has forgotten my blog". We haven't, but our blog display data servers are running very hot and not always returning data. Unfortunately, this particular error is not handled as we would like in the front-end and, instead of saying there was an error, it concludes that the blog doesn't exist. Our mistake, not yours. We'll be fixing this, but in the meantime, try a reload and sorry for the inconvenience.</p> <p>Blog claiming continues to be problematic. This is more the result of our new crawler's diligence in not letting potential spam or non-blogs into the index than the result of the move, though the move has aggravated things. We are trying to balance content review policies for new sites that people are trying to claim with our desire to keep spam out. Some of what we are looking for in a blog can be found in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/guidelines/">Technorati Blog Quality Guidelines</a>.</p> <p><strong>Priorities</strong></p> <ol> <li>Stability and performance of the site.</li> <li>Making sure blog claiming works.</li> <li>Continued ping processing and indexing</li> </ol> <p>There are engineers working on all of these and I'll keep you posted on our progress.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Colo move update - slowly coming back online</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 13, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/05/506.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F05%2F506.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Yesterday we completed 3 move phases, relocating about 60 machines. In particular we have moved the vast majority of our front end web farm and the back end search and crawling infrastructure. The team has been working non-stop to execute our adjusted plan.</p> <p>If you have been trying to use the site in the last 24 hours, you have noticed we've had our difficulties. Despite rigorous configuration test scenarios and checks prior to the move, some of our internal network components failed to do what they were supposed to. This meant that, although everything we moved was up and running, requests coming from the internet were not getting everything they needed to complete a meaningful page of HTML. </p> <p>You may have noticed that your claimed blogs didn't show up any more or that we seem to have forgotten that your favorite blogs exist. Believe, they are all safe and nothing has been lost.</p> <p>The ops team has rerouted various pieces to start bringing the site online again and full results are now beginning to show up. Unfortunately, you may still see monster pages or slow responses.</p> <p>We appreciate your patience and I'd like to say thank you to the team for their hard work and ingenuity. They are a small group dedicated to keeping Technorati running smoothly. A move of this magnitude is always a challenge and they are doing everything they can to get it done quickly and return all services to normalcy.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Colo move update - moving main web server farm</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 12, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/05/505.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F05%2F505.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've been running for about a week with our web server farm split between the two colo facilities. This approach has definitely made it difficult to guarantee fast or solid page loads.</p> <p>This afternoon we will be moving a major portion of the web server farm so that it resides in the same facility as the search backend. The servers we have already moved are performing quite well and we expect that this will return most services to normal.</p> <p>We appreciate your patience as we are working as fast as we can on getting Technorati working 100% again.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/blog/">Support Blog</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Colo move continues</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 11, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/05/504.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F05%2F504.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Our move between colos continues at full pace. We are working hard to keep services available but there will be outages, both scheduled and unscheduled. We apologize for the inconvenience and understand downtime makes it difficult to use the site.</p> <p>You can keep up with more detailed updates on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/blog/">Support Blog</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Crawls and blog claiming likely offline on Fri.</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on April 30, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/04/495.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F04%2F495.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As I said in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/04/493.html">Colo move is in full swing now</a>, we will be having regularly scheduled maintenance windows while we move from our old colo to our new colo.</p> <p>We are experiencing some slowness over our network between the two colos which has caused a backlog in ping processing.</p> <p>Rather than have this drag on for several days, we have opted to accelerate the move of the major parts of our crawling infrastructure. To make this go quickly, we will probably have to turn crawling and blog claiming off for several hours tomorrow (Friday May 1).</p> <p>No data will be lost as we will simply queue the requests for later processing.</p> <p>You can keep track of our updates in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Site status report</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Colo move in full swing now</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on April 30, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/04/493.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F04%2F493.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've been preparing for our colo move for the last several months. In fact, we're moving two colos at the same time. We expect to be completed prior to the end of May.</p> <p>Since we'll be moving more than 600 servers that make up the 30+ sub-systems that drive Technorati, Blogcritics and AdEngage, there is a ton to coordinate. Our systems have been designed from the ground up with high availability and redundancy in mind. That being said, there are still a lot of moving parts and things don't always go quite as planned. We expect there will be planned outages of some systems and, unfortunately, there may be some unplanned outages as well. We'll keep you posted if things go bump in the night, but, rest assured, we'll keep your blog data safe. Our backup servers have already been moved successfully.</p> <p>For the latest on the move or system status, please consult the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Site status report</a> in the right sidebar of our support site.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Media is Now the #3 Ranked Blog Media Property</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on April 20, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/04/491.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F04%2F491.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>comScore has released March 2009 audience measurements, and I’m psyched to report that according to their reports, Technorati Media has climbed to the #3 ranked US blog media property. This news is significant because comScore is one of the key metrics determining how advertisers decide to engage with social media consumers, which is almost everyone these days!</p> <p>As you know, we launched Technorati Media last June, greatly expanding our audience reach beyond our flagship site, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati.com</a>. In nine months, we’ve grown into one of the largest blog and social media ad networks by partnering with publishers that reach nearly a hundred million people. Our partners represent over 300 sites with well over a billion monthly page views of content, and that’s translated into the March comScore rankings:</p> <p>1. Blogger                     48.3 million visitors<br/> 2. WordPress                 24.4 million visitors<br/> 3. Technorati Media       16.0 million visitors<br/> 4. Six Apart                   13.3 million visitors<br/> 5. Federated Media       10.5 million visitors</p> <p>While the economy remains a daily challenge, we want to take a moment to recognize our partners. Without their cooperative efforts, we wouldn’t be able to show this kind of growth, nor be able to offer advertisers and agencies an efficient marketing vehicle to reach consumers of blogs and social media – this truly is a cooperative, and we thank them.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Update: Indexing is currently behind about 24 hours</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on April 2, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/04/489.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F04%2F489.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Our search indexing hit a snag yesterday at about 4pm Pacific time. We have been working to get it restarted and it is now catching up. Search results on Technorati.com will be stale until the fresh indexes are pushed out to out production searchers.</p> <p>During this time we have continued to process pings and crawl new content, so no data will be lost, just a delay.</p> <p>This delay also means new links have not been counted in Technorati Authority or blog reactions, but, as we catch up, they will be included and Authority will be adjusted.</p> <p>Thanks for your patience.</p> <p>Update: as of midnight Pacific time last night, the backlog of crawl data started flowing to our searchers again. Search is now caught up with recent results showing up in searches again. We still have a backlog of data yet to be indexed, but the system is now operating normally and things should be back in tune later today.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Crawler maintenance window</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on March 13, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/03/486.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F03%2F486.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We have our crawlers shut down at the moment while we perform some system maintenance. We expect to be up and crawling again before 2pm Pacific time today.</p> <p>As you may be aware, we have been <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/03/479.html">migrating</a> from our original crawler architecture to our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.arachna.com/roller/spidaman/entry/new_crawlers_at_technorati">new one</a>. We've been very successful moving millions of blogs, tens of millions of posts, and hundreds of millions of links over the last few months. We've made a serious push the last few weeks and, oops, one of our core persistence stores is at 97% full. We started our backup/restore procedure at around 8:30am and expect to be done before 2pm.</p> <p>Thanks for you patience.</p> <p>Update: our data sync is taking longer than expected. We are pushing the window until 2pm. Will keep you posted.</p> <p>Update: Almost there, but looks like one more hour.</p> <p>Update: Crawling resumed as of 4:30pm today. Thanks again for your patience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>New crawler progress report</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on March 3, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/03/479.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F03%2F479.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As I mentioned in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/02/473.html">Rolling out the new crawler</a>, we've been migrating millions of active blogs, posts, and links from the old crawler infrastructure to the new architecture. We're well past the halfway point now, but we've definitely encountered some slow spots along the way.</p> <p>At the end of last week we flipped a large number of blogs from European and Asian blogging platforms over and the volume gummed up the works a bit. The old crawler was more tolerant of bad character encodings, duplicates, and other bogus data, which meant it could mask issues and move one, whereas the new crawler is focused on much higher data quality, but needs to be able to keep it clean. If we missed an exception, it stops and waits for new instructions. The bad news is, this means some blogs sit until we can fix the blocking issue. The good news is, we've got fixes in place or in the works on all fronts.</p> <p>We continue to address issues as they come up and are treating stalled crawls as a top priority. Thank you for your patience. We have a few million more blogs to go.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Crawler maintenance today</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on February 22, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/02/477.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F02%2F477.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>One of our master crawl databases was corrupted late Fri night. We are <br/> creating a recoverable backup from the standby machine and, while we <br/> are doing that, we have crawling off.</p> <p>Our DBA is about 80% complete with the backup right now. Then she will <br/> verify the new copy and restore.</p> <p>We should be back and crawling in another 2 hours. </p> <p>UPDATE: crawling is back on as of about 3:20pm Pacific, Sunday.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Welcome To The Blogosphere, Mr. President</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on January 21, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/01/466.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F01%2F466.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In his inaugural speech, President Obama called all Americans to action, to take responsibility for lifting the United States and the world from the stifling shadow of greed, conflict and darkness. This will doubtless be recounted as one of the most stirring inaugurations in history. As we have all witnessed, Barack Obama knows how to deliver an inspiring speech, he proved with the change.gov website (that now directs readers to the White House site) that he knows how to listen.</p> <p>One of the first things to notice about the new administration's promised transparency and accountability is the new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/">White House Blog</a>. Being interested in those things, I noticed that the blog follows some unusual technical practices, ones that historically Technorati would not have been able to index accurately. However, change has not only come to Washington, change is afoot in the back-end systems at Technorati. As one steeped in the specifics of Technorati's crawler overhaul, I couldn't resist putting the pieces in place to enable crawling the White House Blog; with the new crawler we're rolling out, the customization needed was a piece of cake.</p> <p>Little more than half a day since its inception, the White House Blog is rising in authority very rapidly; its presently <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/www.whitehouse.gov/blog">ranked 6789</a> and continues its climb. Today was a great day for America, the world and the blogosphere. Technorati will be watching the new administration's social media initiatives and doing what we can to help connect you to them. In the meantime, watch for more developments at Technorati and let us know what you think. We're listening.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati.com Network Test - January 16, 2009</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/david_white.jpg" alt="David White"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">David White</a></cite> on January 16, 2009</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/01/464.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2009%2F01%2F464.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Just a heads-up our Ops team will be running another network test today, <strong>January 16, at 3:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time (23:00 GMT)</strong>. There should not be any noticeable downtime to site users, however if there is it should last for a maximum of 10 minutes.</p> <p>You might have noticed some intermittent loading issues on Technorati.com over the last few days, which turned out to be caused by a network device. It has since been repaired and this test should help insure more reliability moving forward.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Scheduled Maintenance, Monday, December 22, 2008</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/david_white.jpg" alt="David White"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">David White</a></cite> on December 22, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/12/460.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F12%2F460.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>There will be a short outage on Monday, December 22 at 2:30 PM PST (22:30 GMT) as Technorati tests some network improvements. We anticipate this will be very brief, 10 minutes maximum, but it will require Technorati to be unavailable to the Internet for a few minutes. Thank you for your patience and for visiting Technorati.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Some Upgrades to Technorati.com</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/david_white.jpg" alt="David White"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">David White</a></cite> on December 4, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/12/457.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F12%2F457.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Today we’ve made some significant enhancements to Technorati.com: you’ll now notice search is front and center along with what we hope you’ll find to be an easier navigation. We’ve also streamlined our video pages, which highlight the popular videos that bloggers are writing about. But the most significant upgrades are to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag">tag pages</a>. As the Blogosphere has grown, the use of tags have grown similarly across the Internet; it's unusual <i>not</i> to find tags associated with content on the Internet. Tags are what the writer is telling readers their articles are about. At Technorati, we see hundreds of thousands of tagged posts per day. </p> <p>As you’d expect, our new tag pages provide blog posts from across the Blogosphere (with some new tools to filter posts). In addition you'll find all kinds of other tagged content including blogs, videos and photos. The tag trend charts now allow comparison so you can compare any given tag to any other. Finally, we've created space for bloggers and blog readers to discuss how the tag influences the Blogosphere, and original articles detailing and defining the tags, authored by category experts from Technorati's sister site, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcritics.org/">Blogcritics</a>. We invite you to both discuss the tags as well as author a tag article by <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcritics.org/become.php">becoming a BlogCritic</a>.</p> <p>We've been having a lot of fun playing with these new pages while they were in development, whether on major topics like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/microsoft">Microsoft</a> or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/paris+hilton">Paris Hilton</a> to more focused topics like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/south+beach+diet+recipes">South Beach Diet Recipes</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/twilight+the+movie">Twilight the movie</a>. When you check them out you may discover a great blog you never knew about, while other readers are discovering your blog.</p> <p><br/> We hope you find Technorati more useful and enjoyable than you found it yesterday. If you would like to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/support/troubleshooting">give us feedback we'd be grateful </a> (choose <b>Redesign Feedback</b> option).</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Data Cleanups and Mishaps</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on October 27, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/10/455.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F10%2F455.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati has a number of initiatives in the works to improve the data in our search indexes and analytics systems. Web spam sites (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog">splogs</a>) have long been an issue that we've been working to address. The days when <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(blogging)">pings</a> came only from legitimate blogs are long gone. Including all of the spam and duplicates, Technorati receives over 8 million pings per day. Over 90% are recognized and blocked as soon as they're received. The remainder is allowed into the system and selectively processed - a large portion is determined to be spam later.</p> <p>Recently, we've been focusing on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm">link farms</a> and pornography sites that have been getting into the system. Link farms are networks of sites linking to each other and other sites with the intention of raising search rankings. Sometimes, these sites link to legitimate blogs to "camouflage" these intentions or simply because the content has been stolen from another site. During a recent scrub of the system, a number of legitimate blogs were misidentified as spam. The flags set on those blogs were reversed, so going forward they are being indexed correctly again. However, some of the link and post data scrubbed from our search and analytics systems could not be reverted. We're working on upgrades to make that data handling better managed but in the meantime, there are some gaps in certain blog's data which may affect the authority of blogs they linked to. Additionally, some blogs suffered authority drops due to being the beneficiary of camouflaged links from spam sites being removed (wittingly or not); when those spam sites were removed, so was a portion of the authority of the legitimate blogs they linked to.</p> <p>We have a number of technology initiatives in the works to improve the scaling characteristics and data quality of our systems. More news will be arriving on that in the weeks and months ahead.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Help Us Support the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/jen_mclean.jpg" alt="Jen McLean"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Jen McLean</a></cite> on September 29, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogging" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogging">Blogging</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogosphere" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogosphere">Blogosphere</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/events" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Events">Events</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/09/452.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F09%2F452.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>On October 1st, we’re teaming up to support <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.donorschoose.org/">DonorsChoose.org</a> in their <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.donorschoose.org/bloggers">2nd Annual Blogger Challenge</a> DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to getting our kids the materials, resources and experiences they need to learn. They’re challenging the blogosphere to compete to see who can rally the most support for public schools. Across the blogosphere, bloggers are creating giving pages that list specific classroom requests in public schools--and then encouraging their readers to donate to those classroom requests. <br/> <br/> Technorati is sponsoring the "generosity rankings" – which also means that at the end of the challenge we’ll be broadcasting the results showing which bloggers drove the most generosity. You can see the current giving contest <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/motherboard.html?motherboardId=1/"> here</a>.</p> <p>During the last DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge, blog readers donated $420,000 toward classroom projects benefitting 75,000 students in low-income communities. This year, the need is even more urgent: the rough road ahead for the US economy means an even rougher road for public schools. With your participation, you and your readers can help thousands of public school kids. It’s easy:<br/> <br/> HOW YOUR BLOG CAN HELP<br/> <br/> 1. Pick a few classroom requests posted on DonorsChoose.org and add them to a challenge page which takes 1-2 minutes to set up. <br/> <br/> 2. Do a post on October 1 encouraging your readers to donate to any of the classroom requests on each of your challenge page. Your readers can give as little as $5.<br/> <br/> 3. Publish a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.donorschoose.org/bloggers">widget</a> which pulls in the classroom requests you have selected and shouts out the readers who have donated to those requests. Simply select the category to which your blog belongs to grab the appropriate widget.<br/> <br/> If you have additional questions or need help getting started, feel free to contact DonorsChoose.org directly at bloggers@DonorsChoose.org. <br/> <br/> BACKGROUND ON THE CHARITY<br/> DonorsChoose.org grew out of a high school in the Bronx where teachers saw their students going without the materials needed to learn. Our website provides an easy way for everyday people to address this problem. Public school teachers post project requests that range from a $100 classroom library, to a $600 digital projector, to a $1,000 trip to the zoo. People like you can choose which projects to fund and then get photos and thank-you letters from the classroom.<br/> <br/> BACKGROUND ON THE 2008 DONORSCHOOSE.ORG BLOGGER CHALLENGE<br/> In October of 2007, bloggers competed to see who could rally the most support for public schools via DonorsChoose.org. Blog readers gave $420,000 to classroom projects benefitting 75,000 students in low-income communities. While A-list bloggers like Engadget and TechCrunch inspired great generosity, smaller blogs with really engaged readers generated even more! In fact, it was a personal blog from Brooklyn, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tomatonation.com/">TomatoNation</a> who brought in a whopping $100,000.<br/> <br/> Thank you so much for your support.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Acquires Blogcritics and Welcomes the Blogcritics Community</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on August 26, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/08/444.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F08%2F444.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Today, we’ve announced the acquisition of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcritics.org/">Blogcritics.org</a>. If you’re a blogger, you might be familiar with them (and they’ve been part of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technoratimedia.com/">Technorati Media</a> network since June). If you’re not, Blogcritics is an online community of thousands of bloggers, and an award winning site. They’re publishing everything from music reviews to articles on politics and technology – to a monthly audience of more than a million.</p> <p>Why did we do it? It just made sense – as we’ve stated more times than you probably care to hear, our mission is to help bloggers and the people who read blogs. Blogcritics shares this mission, executed in their own unique way by providing a large stage for bloggers to express themselves while giving readers a great array of high quality blog content.</p> <p>What’s in it for us? Blogcritics brings us closer to an open community of bloggers and the audience that follows them. It also gives us a lot more advertising inventory. What’s in it for them? Our combined resources will help that community grow and expose their work to an even wider audience. We’ll also work more closely with Blogcritics authors so they can monetize their own blogs. What’s in it for our advertisers? They’ll be able to run more fully integrated programs across the site and its related blogs.</p> <p>I’m thrilled to welcome Blogcritics and their great community of bloggers to the Technorati team. We’re excited at what the coming months hold for both properties.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Improvements to Technorati Indexing </h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on August 20, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/08/443.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F08%2F443.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We're committed to improving our search results and the overall user experience and are taking steps to reduce the amount of spam and non-blog entries that make it into the Technorati index. We’ve made some improvements in how we identify legitimate blogs in order to filter out the spam.</p> <p>What was the problem?</p> <blockquote>Large volumes of splogs (spam blogs) and non-blogs ping us in ever increasing numbers. While only a small percentage get through our filters, it is still enough to negatively impact the Technorati experience for everyone. Splogs can show up in search results and blog reactions. Additionally, the high volume of junk pings slows down our systems.</blockquote> <p>What does this mean for me?</p> <p>New blogs</p> <blockquote>In the past, simply pinging Technorati initiated an indexing of a site. This open door policy meant a lot of splogs and non-blogs would enter the system and masquerade as blogs. In order to better filter out spam as well as inadvertent pings to Technorati, we have implemented a few simple review measures to evaluate a site prior to indexing it as a blog. <p>The review process entails verifying that the site falls within the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/guidelines/" title="Technorati Blog Quality Guidelines">Technorati Blog Quality Guidelines</a>. </blockquote></p> <p>Existing, indexed blogs</p> <blockquote>As an active blogger already in the Technorati index, we will continue to crawl and index your blog as before. We hope that your Technorati experience will improve. Our service should be faster, search results and blog reactions should be cleaner, and the number of legitimate blogs accidentally caught by our spam filters should decrease. <p>Links from new sites will be attributed to blog reactions and Technorati Authority when the new site is approved and indexed. <br/> </blockquote></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Search updates not showing in results</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on August 17, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/08/442.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F08%2F442.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati is experiencing a problem with our search result updating infrastructure. We continue to crawl and save data, however, post search results are stale and temporarily stuck at about 3pm Pacific Fri. Aug 15. Link results (reactions) are stuck at Thu. Aug 14.</p> <p>We have identified the root cause and are actively working on the issue. We expect to have the system caught up during the evening hours.</p> <p>No data is being lost, but the most recent posts and reactions are not reflected in results at the moment.</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>We have restored our post and tag search results. Link (reactions) results are catching up. We expect the system to be fully restored late this evening.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>So we're launching an ad network... AND overhauling our search infrastructure</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on June 17, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/06/438.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F06%2F438.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>It’s been a while – – we’ve had our heads down focused on building the business, so we’ve been a little quiet lately. I wanted to bring things up to date with what’s new today as well as fill you in on our core search business.</p> <p>So we’re launching an ad network…</p> <p>Why? Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed and to bring audiences to blog content. Given our unique position of running a blog search engine, an ad network geared towards helping blog and social media publishers at every level to make some money just made sense.</p> <p>We’ve been successful attracting premium brand advertisers to Technorati.com – and we’d like to extend those relationships for bloggers, as well as give our advertisers the deeper reach into blogging and social media they’ve been asking for. </p> <p>Our first step was a private beta. We assembled a core of like-minded sites, founded to provide community and services to bloggers and to surface the best of blog content to consumers, and were successful in attracting advertisers to the network including: T-Mobile, Toyota, and Verizon.</p> <p>These sites form the base of the Technorati network’s vertical content channels and reach an audience of 17 million (with that audience increasing very shortly with several other sites about to sign). Over the next several months, we’ll be adding blogs from the mid and long tail within those verticals. Here’s some of who’s in so far:</p> <p>• <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogtalkradio.com/" title="blogtalkradio">blogtalkradio</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcritics.org/" title="Blogcritics">Blogcritics</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcatalog.com/" title="blogcatalog">blogcatalog</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogtv.com/" title="BlogTV">BlogTV</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://geekalerts.com/" title="GeekAlerts">GeekAlerts</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://gpsmagazine.com/" title="GPSMagazine">GPSMagazine</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://nerdapproved.com/" title="NerdApproved">NerdApproved</a><br/> • <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technabob.com/" title="Technabob">Technabob</a></p> <p><br/> That doesn’t mean we’re moving away from our core. We’ve organized the company into two operating groups – the network and Technorati.com. Blog search is still and will always be the foundation of everything we do.</p> <p>In our biggest internal initiative, we’re in the midst of a summer-long project to completely rewrite our crawler and search engine. Last week, Dorion addressed some of our recent challenges and fixes. An updated search infrastructure should address of the vast majority of the complaints we receive, greatly reduce spam and give everyone a faster, more efficient utility. You’ll also see significant upgrades to blog claiming and Technorati Authority. Our product team has also spent a lot of this year getting feedback directly from the blogging community and incorporated this into the development of our widgets – as we roll them out a lot of you will recognize what you see.</p> <p>You’ll see some new features designed for our readers as well, but I’ll leave this for a future update.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Why has Technorati been so slow recently?</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on June 10, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/06/437.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F06%2F437.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We strive to provide a great user experience and that includes fast page load times. Last summer we worked very hard on this effort and for the past many months we have been able to achieve this goal.</p> <p>Well, I'm disappointed that I have to tell you what your probably already know, we have stumbled a bit the past two weeks. Page load times have been on the rise over the last week and, in a couple instances, the site has been nearly unusable. We are working exremely hard to resolve the underlying problems, but I thought it important to let you all know that we are keenly aware of the problem and, like you, want the site to be screaming fast.</p> <p><strong>What happened?</strong></p> <p>A high volume of automated processes (AKA "bots") access our service for various purposes, many with nefarious ones, exhibiting onerous behaviors and often masquerading as human users. These bots can, at times, impact the stability and performance of the service.</p> <p><strong>What are we doing about it?</strong></p> <p>We have an ongoing effort to reduce the impact of bots. At times we've had to throttle certain activities particularly around feed and API requests. We continue to upgrade and add new hardware as load dictates. We are also configuring new detection and prevention mechanisms to help ensure that real end user requests are our top priority to serve.</p> <p><strong>When will this all be done?</strong></p> <p>Several defenses have already gone live over the past week and these additions have resulted in a significant reduction in backend resource consumption and have stabilized parts of the overall system.</p> <p>We constantly monitor the system and, as of this writing, have been able to cool things down again very close to our desired response time levels.</p> <p>We appreciate your patience and understand that many of you have come to rely on our services in your daily use of the Internet. As I stated before, we strive to provide a great user experience. I want to thank the dedicated team I work with who is getting us through this difficult time. I hope you too can thank them when we achieve our goal once again.</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>Well, we've had over 15 hours of excellent response times from the system. We have addressed the underlying capacity shortage things have returned to normal. Thank you again for your patience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on April 7, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/04/424.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F04%2F424.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>This is a follow up on our post regarding a problem affecting thousands of WordPress blogs, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/02/423.html">Patch or Upgrade Your Wordpress Installation, Now</a>. WordPress has since released <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/">version 2.5</a>. However, we've noticed that a large number of blogs remain vulnerable to the security issue addressed by the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/">2.3.3</a> release.</p> <p>Blogs that have been compromised by this security vulnerability are typified by having links to spam destinations inserted onto the blog page. These link insertions may be invisible to casual observations; the links are often obscured by style attributes that render them invisible. These links are still seen by crawlers such as Technorati's, Google's and Yahoo's. You can find these links by viewing the source of the blog pages or, when using Firefox, looking under "Tools" -> "Page Info" -> "Links". Blogs hosted on wordpress.com are <i>not</i> affected by this issue; only blogs hosted on their own installations of WordPress from wordpress.org require concern.</p> <p>Because of this ongoing problem, we're discontinuing processing crawls of blogs that exhibit common symptoms of being compromised. We strongly recommend upgrading your WordPress installation. Even if you haven't been afflicted by a compromise, by the time you are aware that you have been a number of negative consequences may have already occurred (for instance, flagged spam by Technorati, Google or Yahoo!) -- this has been reported by many WordPress users.</p> <p>If you have questions about installing WordPress or maintaining a WordPress installation, please refer to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page">WordPress Documentation</a> or the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress Forums</a>. If you feel that your blog is not vulnerable to this hack but your WordPress blog is not being updated, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/support/troubleshooting">contact Technorati support staff</a>.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>My Dog Ate Your Blog</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on January 14, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/01/420.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F01%2F420.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Sorry about the goofy title, I'm in grave need of levity now due to some indexing troubles we had this past week and the ensuing recovery effort. We're currently in the midst of repairing most of the effected data but I wanted to share what's going on with it.</p> <p>Technorati's spiders were shutdown for several hours on Thursday and various intervals since then while we investigated a number of anomalies that were appearing in our data; essentially, a small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://slblogs.org/?p=845">blog post</a>. The spidering outages allowed us time to investigate, diagnose and make corrections that prevented further data corruption. We started running some corrective measures on Friday but found over the weekend that that was only partially effective. Technorati handles a large volume of data everyday; isolating and devising remedies for these kinds of issues that effect a small percentage of the data flow is tricky. However, we think we're recovering now and the backlog of data processing is getting worked through.</p> <p>Just to peek into the works a little bit, many distributed data systems rely on centrally dispensing identifiers for data elements and Technorati has such a beast. What was found were cases of blogs new to our system (from within the last 3 weeks) losing thier identifiers and those identifiers getting re-associated to other new blogs. No blogs that existed in our system before Dec. 18th (the vast majority) were impacted at all. The outward manifestations visible were posts for blogs with a shared ID mingled (a mashup the authors naturally were unhappy with) and mis-associated blog claims ("And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful blog").</p> <p>This was a unprecedented case for us; while it had been occurring in about 8% of those blogs (created on or after December 18) for about 2 days (beginning on Tuesday, January 8th) we had until that time never encountered this phenomenon. An intensive investigation was launched, reconstructing operational timelines and correlating facts. What we found was that this stemmed from a failure incident with the primary system for identifier dispensing, another failure in the secondary system that took its place and then a corrupted data set mistakenly taking over <em>that</em> one, ouch! The first two blows appeared to be handled routinely but the third time was cursed; propagation of corrupted data was not detected for about 48 hours between Tuesday when it started and Thursday when we pulled the emergency brakes on the spiders.</p> <p>So we're recovering now, most of the data is being restored to its previous state and we have had a number of internal postmortem discussions about earlier fault detection and recovery. If your blog was created in our system within the prior three weeks (since December 18th) and you're seeing aberrant data associated with it or it's no longer there (try http://technorati.com/blogs/YOUR_BLOG_URL to check), please visit the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/support/troubleshooting">support request page</a>. A selection for 'The January 8th System Outage' will be available this month while we shake out any remaining issues that aren't covered by the remedial action under way now.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Authority bug impacting mostly A listers fixed</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on January 3, 2008</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/01/416.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2008%2F01%2F416.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Over the holiday break we found and fixed a bug that inflated authority counts for certain blogs. The blogs affected were those on domains that also have linked-to sub-domains. The links to the sub-domains were erroneously counting toward the blog authority of the blog on the parent domain. Since <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/354.html">Technorati Authority</a> is a calculation of how much attention is being paid to a blog and the posts beneath it, we do not include sub-domains. Sub-domains are treated as separate entitities and often are references to tools, utilities, features, and other non-blog resources.</p> <p>Examples:</p> <p>http://chinese.engadget.com<br/> http://desktops.engadget.com<br/> http://hdtv.engadget.com<br/> http://storage.engadget.com</p> <p>Well, we fixed the bug yesterday. The impact of this change is mostly limited to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Top 100</a> and the overwhelming majority of the blogosphere is unaffected. Thanks for bearing with us while the Top 100 experiences some turbulence.</p> <p>We're always thinking about how to improve and develop new meaningful metrics for the blogosphere and we welcome your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html">feedback</a> on these issues.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Use The Technorati Percolator to Discover The Real Time Web</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on December 4, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/12/406.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F12%2F406.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Those who have been following Technorati over the years may remember the basic proposition emblazoned on the web site, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://web.archive.org/web/20041204010755/http://www.technorati.com/index.html" title="archive.org December 4, 2004">What's Happening on the Web Right Now</a>. One of the exciting things about working at Technorati (particularly if you're a data geek like me) is that the web is changing in real time. Searching it in real time and discovering the significant happenings realizes the promise of the web to catalyze and connect us. While blog search continues to be a core focus of what we offer, today we're releasing discovery features that have been tooled up to bring you the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/frontpage/" title="The Technorati Percolator">Technorati Percolator</a>.</p> <p><strong>Search <em>&</em> Discover</strong></p> <p>Our search application surfaces keyword, tag and link query results as they unfold. Our discovery features will <em>tell</em> you what's going on, not requiring that you know what to <em>ask</em>. In the 1.5M blog posts passing through our turnstiles everyday, <cite>some of them <em>have</em> to be good</cite> and we want to help you find them.</p> <p>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/frontpage/" title="The Technorati Percolator">Technorati Percolator</a> combs the sea of posts and other media flowing through our systems to find the ones that are emerging as significant at any given time. Finding the needles in a fast-moving haystack and organizing them into topical groupings isn't easy. Items in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory" title="Percolator definition: connected clusters in a random graph">Percolator</a> are sampled from our update stream, primarily ranked by the age of the item, the authority of its source, the authority of the referring blogs and the density of recent links to it. We found that by taking all of these factors into account, an effective algorithmic filter and magnifier emerges. A lot of great applications have already appeared on the landscape that try to solve this kind of problem. From what we can tell, those applications started with a small corpus of blogs and grew their coverage from there. Technorati has come at the problem from the perspective of starting with broad coverage, sampling it and winnowing it down to the good conversations. Of course, if you want to explore the social connectivity, Technorati's search systems are there to help.</p> <p>Our primary goal with the Percolator is to highlight the significant things grabbing the blogosphere's attention regardless of the blogger's "A-list" or "Z-list" status. Our broader coverage should enable us to better serve the broader blogosphere. Yes, we have stories and sources from the main stream press as well as the "A list" bloggers we're all familiar with but we're also striving to provide more comprehensive coverage by going deeper into our data set than "page one". By exploiting our broader coverage, we're seeking to move meme-emergence applications further along the long tail.</p> <p>While we're very proud of this release, the Percolator is a work in progress, so please keep your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html" title="Contact Technorati">feedback</a> coming. We're going to continue iterating on our technologies to better serve the blogosphere and help those navigating it search and discover what's happening.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Discovery, News and Blogs on the New Technorati.com</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on December 4, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/12/405.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F12%2F405.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In a few short years, weblogs have come to represent the fundamental connected conversation of our pubic lives. The numbers involved have become very large: at Technorati we index over 65,000 blog posts an hour along with 2,800 fresh links a minute. Worldwide, we index over 100 million blogs. We built Technorati on blog search, helping bloggers, readers, journalists and brands understand the online conversation on a topic: who's talking, who's influential, and what's being said about me. And in a very rudimentary way, we've always shown what’s hot right now based on top searches and top tags.</p> <p><b>Finding the good stuff in a world of 100 million sources</b></p> <p>But the incredible growth in user generated content means we need to go beyond the "search" paradigm and find a better way to highlight and present the best of what's happening now, and moreover what's gaining attention in topical areas of interest to our audience. It’s a rich problem to solve. We're very good at showing all the latest posts on a topic, but the latest is different than posts that are actually rising in attention. It takes a few hours to a couple of days for an interesting post way down the long tail to build a string of inbound likes and start rising in attention. By which time its probably lost on Technorati search result page seven. </p> <p>I suppose we could build a system that looks at all the posts on a topic from a tightly proscribed white list (there are many services that do this) but that loses much of the emergent serendipity of the blogoshere and excludes everyone except for a proscribed static elite. That’s neither fair nor interesting nor scalable. We're interested in what the whole blogosphere has to say on a topic. But to find the interesting relevant stuff we want to give a little more weight to bloggers that are revealed to be authoritative in a subject (not just because they say so in a tag, but because we observe many other topical bloggers linking to them in a democratic vote of editorial goodness). </p> <p><b>Social, meet mainstream media</b></p> <p>But bloggers don’t just link to other blog posts; one of the most powerful things bloggers do is collectively vote on the relevance of mainstream media articles at any moment based on linking behavior. That too is a key measure of the blogosphere's attention. It's also a key measure of a news article's relevance, because blog links are essentially editorial selection. And since blogs and mainstream media are, via links, reciprocal participants in a global conversation, we knew we had to put both on the same page to do each justice.</p> <p>So, we incorporated all this thinking (and more) into designing the new Technorati.com. <br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The (really) new Technorati.com</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on December 4, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/12/404.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F12%2F404.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>My first two months at Technorati are in the books, and in that time, a number of you have asked me “what is Technorati up to?” or “now that you’re on board, what are your plans?” Today, I’m happy to introduce a new Technorati.com that answers both those questions. And it really is new: it leverages the best of Technorati’s definitive resources to offer an evolved, discovery-driven experience that is more powerful, more relevant, and more instant than ever before. </p> <p>We have harnessed our best-on-the-Web blog index and search to power a rich, topical experience that’s complimented by new and improved search. And this is just a step, one of many more to come towards leveraging our blog search heritage to provide richer, more relevant, algorithmically-driven search and discovery that connects our Web 2.0 startup roots with our blossoming business. </p> <p>But this relaunch isn’t just about new pages. In parallel to public facing events like today’s launch, we’re also working hard behind the curtains to build our infrastructure and business, with initiatives like improved search/site performance, and streamlined monetization. This release is momentous, but it’s also multi-faceted, and to do the nuances justice I’ve asked a couple veteran team members to post some rationale and descriptions of the new features. We’ll be listening for your feedback as we progress from this step forward, and we hope you enjoy the new discovery.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>My First Week on the Job</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on October 8, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/10/386.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F10%2F386.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>No doubt about it: my first week on the job was a whirlwind of education and discovery. As our VP of marketing, Derek Gordon, said to me: “Welcome to the Blogosphere!”</p> <p>I promised that I would spend my first weeks on the job really listening and over my first seven days as CEO of Technorati I’ve already heard much that is instructive and useful. First and foremost, I want to say thank you for your feedback and for thinking deeply about how it is Technorati can be a success. I also want to say that I’ve heard from the blogosphere loudly and clearly about the decline of our service quality. </p> <p>For instance, it’s clear that removing filtering tools and making tag search results inseparable from keyword search results was a mistake. We're going to correct that as soon as possible. We know now that filtering results by the source blog's authority is a powerful tool that visitors to the site depended on. We also know now that we alienated bloggers who tagged their blog posts, say, as being about Facebook (a really nice little company, I might add) by burying them with all blog posts that mention Facebook. </p> <p>Also, stability and uptime has been a problem: there’s no sugarcoating this. As many of you know, we’ve been engaged in a process of moving our co-location facility out of 365 Main here in San Francisco to a new facility. Doing a move of this kind while keeping the site live was daunting (and I can’t thank our ops teams enough for the late nights and lost weekends throughout – by all accounts, they were heroic) and, unfortunately, resulted in inconsistent service delivery. But I’m happy to report the move is done, no lives were lost, and we’re already seeing dramatic service improvements as a result.</p> <p>And, I’ve learned from our teams that we have more work underway to bring forth other great aspects from our treasure trove of data; to enhance crawler accuracy; to reduce indexing latency; and to bolster system stability.</p> <p>Lastly, I’ve learned that while the core of everything we do is in blog search – without question, we must do that very, very well – Technorati also needs to provide more than basic search results in order to be a successful business. We also need to be a place where people can not only search, but are surprised and delighted by a discovery process that highlights the best of blogs and the media those bloggers are talking about, and deliver it all in near real-time.</p> <p>This is a very tall order. But Technorati has a team of incredibly committed and extraordinarily talented people working hard every day to make this vision a reality. And we’re listening – every day – to the feedback you give us. So keep it coming. <br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>First Day On The Job</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_jalichandra.jpg" alt="Richard Jalichandra"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=richard_jalichandra" class="fn">Richard Jalichandra</a></cite> on October 1, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/10/385.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F10%2F385.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>With office key card in hand, network ID and password assigned, and a new Post-it pad on my desk,it’s truly official: today is my first day on the job as Technorati’s new President & CEO. </p> <p>While starting any new job always has its immediate challenges, my hope is to spend much of the coming days and weeks doing a lot of listening: to the awesome team here at Technorati; to our esteemed advisors; to a broad range of the bloggers we highllight (starting with our amazing <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Top 100</a>); to our mainstream media partners; and to our new partners working with us on our Conversational Marketing initiative.</p> <p>My belief is that through actively engaging with all those we seek to serve better and by really listening to their guidance, we can continue to build a service and an experience that is second to none. There is much to build on here at Technorati and I know that by working closely with all those folks who are invested in our success, we can continue to innovate, grow and thrive as a vital part of the social media ecosystem. </p> <p>I hope to meet many of you and I’ll be paying attention to your blog posts, your comments, your links, your searches, your tags and your favorites in the hopes that I can always learn from you. To Dave, the board of directors and the team, I’d just like to say thanks for giving me such a great opportunity. I’m absolutely thrilled to be here!<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>A New Leader for a Great Company</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on October 1, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/10/384.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F10%2F384.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I admit it: I’m in no way impartial where <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> is concerned. In my view, Technorati is a great company poised to achieve even greater heights. </p><p> So it gives me great pleasure to tell you that how we get to that next great place is now the job Technorati’s newest team member: </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/management.html">Richard Jalichandra</a>, who begins work today as Technorati President & Chief Executive Officer. </p><p> This is a very exciting moment for Technorati. As you all know, we’ve been looking for someone to take the CEO mantle since my decision last spring to transition to a role on the board of directors. As Technorati moves from its start-up phase into its revenue stage, we wanted to find a seasoned leader experienced in scaling operations like ours. As the Board and I searched, we had one goal in mind: finding a highly qualified individual who would also be a great match to our culture and mission. So, as both Technorati's founder and now its Chairman of the Board, I feel confident saying that we've now found and signed that person. </p><p> I know that Richard is really excited to be at the helm of this company – almost as excited as we are to have him. He is our top choice. </p><p> Richard is one of those rare individuals with leadership experience across the media universe: as a client; running several agencies; at several large publishers; and at an advertising network. Prior to joining Technorati, he held significant leadership roles at Exponential / Tribal Fusion, Fox Interactive Media and IGN. Most recently, Richard worked on a variety of Internet media projects as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Battery Ventures, an advisory board member at MyYearbook.com and Pixsy, and as an M&A and strategy consultant for several other Internet media properties. </p><p> So, from now on, you’ll be hearing more from Richard than from me where Technorati is concerned. On a personal note, I want to thank our CFO Teresa Malo, our VP of Engineering Dorion Carroll, our VP of Marketing Derek Gordon, and, my fellow board members, especially Peter Hirshberg who has been leading our Conversational Marketing effort, for their stewardship throughout this transition. I expect great things from this extraordinary team moving forward. </p><p> Stay tuned! </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>What's Up With Technorati System Availability Lately?</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on September 19, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/09/382.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F09%2F382.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As readers of this blog may recall, the July <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/07/363.html">power outage at our 365 Main Street</a> facility knocked Technorati's web site off the 'net. Long prior to that event, we were already making plans to vacate 365 Main and move the infrastructure hosted there to another facility; that incident hardened our resolve to do so with all available haste. Since then, we've been busily migrating functionality to another data center. Most of the time, these migrations have been transparent but there have been a few episode where things didn't go quite as planned. In those cases, when crawl latencies are high or the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://flickr.com/photos/netzkobold/532387480/">Technorati Monster</a> has been displayed instead of our web site, we've been working diligently to make the necessary corrections. This morning, a particularly egregious instance of this occurred. Operations appear to be fully restored now and we appreciate you bearing with us while these transitions are underway.</p> <p>Beginning at midnight on the morning of Friday, September 21 (PDT), some delicate network functionality will be migrated out of 365 Main. While we expect any disruption to service availability to be at most a few minutes, we've identified a 4 hour window ending at 4:00 a.m. (PDT) within which these changes will be completed. We wanted to let everyone know that this was going to occur and hope to minimize any inconvenience this may present. By the week's end, we expect to have no more infrastructure operating out of 365 Main. The attention that this move has required will be rededicated to the other areas where it is needed to continue to scale and improve Technorati's service. <br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Introducing Technorati Topics</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on September 10, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/09/373.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F09%2F373.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Technorati collects millions of blog posts every day — too many for the average human being to even try to track. As a Technorati power user, I've been fascinated by just how much I can find out using Technorati <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search">Search</a>. If you're like me and you know how to construct just the right search, you can winnow the results to just what you are looking for. </p> <p> That being said, I've read a lot of great feedback on Technorati, how we should organize the vastness of the blogosphere and help people find the good stuff and help great bloggers be found. In particular, I read a lot of blog posts asking us to build what bloggers want. Well, today we are releasing a major overhaul of the Technorati <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Home page</a> and a completely new area of the site that emphasizes blogs, Technorati <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics">Topics</a>. With Topics, we help you discover what bloggers are writing about in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/entertainment">Entertainment</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/technology">Technology</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/politics">Politics</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/sports">Sports</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/business">Business</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/topics/life">Life</a>. </p> <p> Each topic features blog posts from many of the best blogs out there to help you discover what's going on. The posts are refreshed frequently to reflect breaking news, new opinions, and the latest from the Web. We've set out to help you find some great blog posts to read and we've organized them by easy to browse topics. We considered a number of factors to get the seed list of blogs including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/71">Technorati Authority</a>, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality. </p> <p> I am very proud of what the team has put together over the summer. We continue to work on search, stability, and performance and we're listening to what you have to say about Technorati. I want you to know we really appreciate all that every blogger has to say. Today's release is just a first step. There is a lot more we have up our sleeves, so stay tuned for what's coming next and come back often. </p> <p> I welcome your feedback and input, so, please, join the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/discussions/">discussion</a> about Technorati. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The New and Improved Technorati Support</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/janice_myint.jpg" alt="Janice Myint"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=janice_myint" class="fn">Janice Myint</a></cite> on September 5, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/09/372.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F09%2F372.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We at Technorati are continually looking for ways to improve our service. We've heard many of your comments, concerns, and suggestions, and now we've revamped our Support Section. We hope these new improvements and features make it easier for everyone to find the information they need, and help each other out in the process. </p> <p>One new feature is the combined search box that helps users discover answers in both our monitored Discussions and updated FAQs. It's a fast and highly effective way to locate exactly what you're looking for. <br/> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/"><img alt="Improved Technorati Support Page" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/1332009702_864ec0f764.jpg?v=0" border="1"/></a><br/> We've also added a Troubleshooting area, and a Site Status blog that will keep you up-to-date with the latest site developments (and issues, should there be any). We hope that with these additional resources, users will be able to find answers and explanations quickly and easily, as well as have a dedicated place to get informed, share tips and tricks, and interact with other members who also have something to say. </p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Come check it out!</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>A Change In Seasons</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on August 16, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/08/366.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F08%2F366.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>If there's one thing I've learned during my time as CEO here at Technorati is that making tough choices is a daily reality. But some choices are tougher than others, particularly when they involve one's own self. </p> <p>You see, I've made the tough decision to turn the reigns of the company over to other managers at the company. For those of you who follow Technorati regularly, you know that we've been conducting a CEO search since Spring and that it was just a matter of time before I made a transition. But searches such as these take time, especially in a market as frothy as this one, and I decided that rather than waiting for the process to play out, I would go ahead and transition to the board exclusively, taking on the role of Chairman of the Board. </p> <p>As of today, Teresa Malo, CFO, Dorion Carroll our Vice President of Engineering and Derek Gordon, our Vice President of Marketing, will operate as a committee of the Office of the President, jointly focused on the day-to-day management of Technorati and achieving some important, very strategic milestones. This committee will report directly to our Board of Directors. And, of course, Peter Hirshberg will continue as our "rainmaker-in-chief", leading the continuing development of our Conversational Marketing initiative, corporate development and public relations.</p> <p>Be clear: the board is still conducting a search for the next great leader of this great company. And I'll still be engaged strategically from the point of view of a director on the board. But I strongly believe this is the right team at the right moment to focus the company's efforts and get us to our objectives.</p> <p>I've been doing startups for almost all of my adult life. And I LOVE startups. I love the teams. I love the sense of mission, and the fast innovation. I love building something from an idea - a whiff of air over vocal cords - into a real, concrete business with real customers and a deep and real sense of corporate mission. I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten the opportunity to do that with so many diverse teams and businesses - SecuRemote, Linuxcare, Sputnik, and Technorati. One of the joys is also being a part of becoming a "revenue-stage" company - a company with lots of real customers, where the demands on teams shift away from fundamental blue-sky innovation and focus much more into building great things for customers, reducing expenses, and making the business into much more of a revenue machine. It always strikes me with a bit of sadness as well. </p> <p>Technorati is now a revenue stage business - we've been hiring up sales folks, as well as building much more detailed roadmaps and product pipelines. Customer-driven needs, pipeline management, operational management, and expense control are now a much bigger part of our life as a company than it was when we were running on a couple of servers in my basement. </p> <p>Which brings me to my next big piece of news: today we also say goodbye to eight of our team members. Because we'll be focusing our efforts more precisely moving forward, it became clear we needed to adjust our expense structure to be more appropriately aligned with our priorities moving forward. So, we had to make the difficult decision to part ways with eight of our staff members. Undertaking this action was gut wrenching - all our team members are greatly valued - but was necessary to ensure the ongoing success and growth of Technorati. </p> <p>To all who move on to great new things, let me just say: thank you. I value each of your unique contributions and I'll miss working with you.</p> <p>I'm continually impressed by the strength and depth of our leadership team, and their ability to buttress my operational weaknesses with their verve, passion, and determination. I'm a lucky guy. While I'm turning over the reigns of the company I founded and love so much, I'm not going away. Promise. You can continue to keep track of me via my blog at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/">Sifry's Alerts</a>. Check in often: there's lots more to come!<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>I'm Not Number 1</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_gordon.jpg" alt="Derek Gordon"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=derek_gordon" class="fn">Derek Gordon</a></cite> on August 5, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/08/365.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F08%2F365.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>And, sadly, you probably aren't either. At least according to the Technorati blog ranking system. But it was fun while lasted, right?</p> <p>Technorati experienced a data flow breakdown on Saturday, August 4th that caused our ranking system to, well, sort of blow a gasket. My colleagues have identified the problem, we have corrected it and we've taken steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. </p> <p>The good news is: the system is working normally again. The bad news: unless you are in fact #1 according to our ranking systems, you're no longer #1. But have faith: you can get there!</p> <p>Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the MANY entertaining blog posts pointing out the error. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>San Francisco Power Outages Affect Technorati.com</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_gordon.jpg" alt="Derek Gordon"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=derek_gordon" class="fn">Derek Gordon</a></cite> on July 24, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/07/363.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F07%2F363.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati fell victim to a swarm of power outages beginning at about 1:50 p.m. PDT Tuesday, July 24, 2007 that affected all of San Francisco and as far south as Daly City and South San Francisco, according to news reports. Our offices at Third and Townsend and one of our two co-location facilities were affected. We are working with our co-location facility managers to assess why it is back-up power generators failed to provide the necessary back-up power to prevent our site going down. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by our site being unavailable this afternoon.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Farewells and Welcomes</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on July 3, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/07/362.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F07%2F362.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> In the life of companies, there are moments of welcoming and there are times when one must bid a fond farewell. For <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a>, at this moment, we must say a warm goodbye to our colleagues <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://adam.typepad.com/">Adam Hertz</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tantek.com/">Tantek Celik</a>. I remember when both started here at Technorati three years ago, literally on the same day, and find it ironic, therefore, that both will leave us on the same day, even if for different reasons. </p><p> Adam, in his role as Vice President of Engineering, and Tantek, as our Chief Technologist, played important roles in shaping the company we are today. Three years ago, there were just a few of us, dreaming and scheming about how to scale our promising little enterprise. Today, we are about 45 people, have a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.jp/">presence in Japan</a>, serve about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000492.html">12 million unique visitors each month</a>, are watching our page views grow by double-digits each quarter, and continue to innovate based on the needs and interests of our users. </p><p> So, as both leave Technorati to pursue other interests, I simply want to say: thank you. I also want to say that it makes me very happy they both will remain as part of our extended family. On the fourth anniversary of Technorati, it seemed the right time to create a Technorati Fellows program and I've asked Adam to be our very first Technorati fellow. In this role, Adam will continue to offer strategic advice and support to me and to others here at Technorati moving forward. Tantek will join the Technorati Board of Advisors so we'll continue to benefit from his guidance and wisdom as he moves on to ever-greater heights. </p><p> This moment also affords me the opportunity to extend a welcome - to our friend and colleague <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://dorion.blogspot.com/">Dorion Carroll</a>, who will take on the role of Vice President of Engineering, reporting to me. This appointment represents a consolidation of roles, combining engineering, technology leadership and product development. Dorion has been on the Technorati team for more than two years and brings with him 20 years experience in a variety of engineering and product leadership roles. During his time at Technorati, Dorion has led the introduction of most of the new features available on our Web site today and has worked very closely with our search team to bring their constant innovations to our users. </p><p> We're continuing to hire as well - we're looking for a kick-ass Director of Operations, as well as a number of Search, Systems Administrators, DBAs, and Sales posts. You can see them all <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/jobs.html">here</a>. </p><p> I hope you'll join me in wishing Adam and Tantek all the best as they move on to their next great adventures in life and on the live web, and in welcoming Dorion to his challenging and well-deserved new role at Technorati. I'm confident that we'll be seeing great things from each of them! </p><p> UPDATE: OK, I deserve to get hit with the stupid stick - I left our wonderful <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.lizcoworldwide.com/wordpress/?p=165">Liz Dunn</a> out of the post when I put it up, who is taking a great job over at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.funnyordie.com/">Laugh or Die</a>. My apologies, Liz! My only explanation is that I had written this post over the weekend, before this great job had fallen in your lap, and I spaced out when I was posting. Best wishes, darling, you're great, we'll miss you. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/adamhertz" rel="tag">adamhertz</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/dorioncarroll" rel="tag">dorioncarroll</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/gratitude" rel="tag">gratitude</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/givingthanks" rel="tag">givingthanks</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tantekcelik" rel="tag">tantekcelik</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/thanks" rel="tag">thanks</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Ticker gets a close button</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 30, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/359.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F05%2F359.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Well, some of you love the Technorati search ticker on the home page and some of you, well, don't like it so much. We've listened to your feedback and have added a close button on the right hand side of the ticker.</p> <p>Thanks for the feedback - we aim to please. Do note that, at the moment, there isn't an Undo, so, once it's closed, it's closed. The good news is, if you never want to see it, you won't have to. For those who want to get it back, please be patient, we'll add a recovery preference soon.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Rank is Back</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on May 29, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/358.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F05%2F358.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In our recent redesign, we created a new look for our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/technorati.com/weblog">Blog page</a>. Due to an oversight, we left the Technorati Rank statistic out of the design for this page. Many of you noticed this omission and let us know how much you missed seeing your ranks. Some folks assumed we'd replaced Rank with Authority, since we tightened up the language and display of Authority. But it really was just an omission, so sorry for the confusion. Technorati Rank is back.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Ouch</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on May 23, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/357.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F05%2F357.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As many of you noticed, we had a pretty major outage earlier today. While it was happening, I didn't have an opportunity to let all of you know what was going on, but now that we're back, I want to do so. This outage was related, albeit subtly, to the release of our new site. Here's what happened.</p> <p>Our service infrastructure is constantly barraged by a whole host of robots that are designed to crawl our indexes for various purposes, legitimate and otherwise. The nefarious bots tend to use and abuse our infrastructure in ways that are very different from usage patterns of legitimate users, so they thwart many of the measures we take to keep our service fast, notably caching.</p> <p>Over the years, we've built up lots of defenses against these bots. Unfortunately, some of the code that implements these defenses was inadvertently excluded from our recent site release. </p> <p>The result was that we were quite vulnerable to attacks from these critters. This explains the rash of Technorati Monster pages y'all have seen of late. And this afternoon, we were totally brought down. In the fog of war, it was hard to realize what had happened. That's why the outage lasted so long.</p> <p>We're back, and all our systems seem to be working again. It was very painful for us that this marred what was otherwise a flawless launch. We thank all of you for your kind words and helpful feedback on what we've built. Let me assure you that we will continue, in the words of our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://sifry.com/alerts">founder</a>, to Be of Service.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Come check out the refreshed www.technorati.com!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on May 23, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/356.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F05%2F356.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I've got some wonderful news, six month's hard work of our entire team has just gone out the door. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/">http://www.technorati.com/</a> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/homepage.png" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/homepage.png','popup','width=999,height=1022,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/homepage-tm.png" height="398" width="390" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Homepage"/></a> </p><p> We just launched a major refresh to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/">www.technorati.com</a>. Some of the changes are subtle, some are big, and they all build on a bunch of improvements we've been making to the site since January. We've been spending a lot of time listening to you, and incorporating an enormous amount of feedback into this refresh - dozens of changes to both our look and feel and to our backend systems to make Technorati more useful to you. </p><p> As I've <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html">blogged about before</a>, the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations that were most interesting to them, today they are increasingly coming to our site to get the 360 degree context of the Live Web - blogs of course, but also user-generated video, photos, podcasts, music, games and more. They want all the good stuff out there, all in real-time, and we're using the power of 80 million bloggers to help organize it and make it fun to browse; using the wisdom of crowds as a mirror on ourselves. Have a look at the new homepage: </p><p> This is being facilitated by the phenomenon of tags and tagging, which helps to unify and organize the rapidly expanding world of user-generated media. As more and more publishing tools support the use of tags, the better we are able to assemble collections of social media based on the interests of our users. </p><p> The world has changed. This isn't just about blogs anymore. And to be of service to you, we have changed too. </p><p> First, we've eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference between keyword search, tag search and blog directory search in order to make use of the full power of our site. No more. Starting today, we now provide you a simplified experience. Simply indicate what's of interest to you and we'll assemble the freshest, hottest, most current social media from across the Live Web - Blogs, posts, photos, videos, podcasts, events, and more. </p><p> We've also worked really hard at making our user interface simpler, and more intuitive. We've been spending months doing user testing, and listening to you, our users, collecting and prioritizing what you wanted, what you liked, and what you hated about Technorati. We haven't gotten it 100% right yet, and we're going to keep working hard to improve, but I think we've made a big step forward with this launch. </p><p> Some of our power users, for example, didn't want all of the bells and whistles - all the context and multiple media types that you get when you do a search on the new Technorati. You wanted speed. You wanted a clear, clean interface. You wanted to get what you were looking for, get in, and get out fast. We listened to you too. We've streamlined a blogsearch-only homepage at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://search.technorati.com/">search.technorati.com</a> (an easy shortcut is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://s.technorati.com/">s.technorati.com</a> - we even eliminated two characters to type to get there!). Have a look. I think you're going to like what you see. </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/fastsearch.png" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/fastsearch.png','popup','width=999,height=1022,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/fastsearch-tm.png" height="398" width="390" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Fastsearch"/></a> </p><p> With this launch, we also provide you with more context around more stuff like videos, music, and blogs. Over time, these pages will become richer and more comprehensive as we add more information about the thing itself, like where it was published, who links to it, what other things are similarly tagged, and more. </p><p> We're also at work introducing features that help you to see what's happening on the web right now. For instance, you'll see a new ticker on the top of the homepage that indicate what terms and phrases are on the move. We also made improvements to WTF and Favorites that help you understand what's hot - right now - and why. </p><p> Finally, there's lots more to do. This is only scratching the surface, and we're going to be rolling out lots more updates and innovations throughout the rest of the year. We're going to continue to work on performance, making things faster and more stable. Every now and then searches still fail for our users or take too long to respond, and that's a top priority for our backend team to fix. We're going to keep listening to you, our users - It is an honor that you give us your time and attention - over 11.7 Million people last month visited Technorati. We've tripled in visitors and traffic in under 5 months. Thanks for telling your friends about us. Thanks for putting your faith in us. </p><p> One last thought... I want to thank the small but dedicated team at work here at Technorati. We're just 45 people today (which represents huge growth for us, but is still a pretty small group). We currently track over 250 million videos, blogs, photos, podcasts, events, and other social media objects in addition to more than 80 million blogs, and do our best every day to serve each and every one of you who visit us every day. Even given the enormity of this task, our team continues to invent, improve and innovate in ways that constantly amazes me and reminds me that I'm one of the luckiest guys on the planet. So to our Technorati team: thank you! You folks are the best team I've ever had the privilege to work with. You've been kicking butt to get this out the door. Thanks. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogosphere" rel="tag">blogosphere</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogsearch" rel="tag">blogsearch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/launch" rel="tag">launch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/liveweb" rel="tag">liveweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/gratitude" rel="tag">gratitude</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/searchengine" rel="tag">searchengine</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Authority and Rank</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on May 5, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogging" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogging">Blogging</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/354.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F05%2F354.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>On Fri. May 4th, we updated Technorati.com to include the Technorati Authority for blogs listed on the Blog page and in search results. This update changed the earlier references of "N blogs link here" and "X links from Y blogs" with the single Technorati Authority number. On the blog page, we also show the Technorati Rank.</p> <p>Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.</p> <p>It is important to note that we measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.</p> <p>Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.</p> <p>Since at the lower end of the scale many blogs will have the same Technorati Authority, they will share the same Technorati Rank.</p> <p>The <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati Top 100</a> shows the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority. The #1 ranked blog is the blog with the most other distinct blogs linking to it in the last 6 months. If your blog's rank is, say 305,316, this indicates that there are 305,315 blog ranks separating your blog from the #1 position.</p> <p>The best way to increase your Technorati Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they'll link to you. Linking to source material when you blog is also a great way to engage in conversation and help others find what you find interesting.</p> <p>Finally, if you want to let your readers see your Technorati Authority on your blog, install the <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tools/blogwidgets.html">Technorati Authority widget</a>. It's a little bit down the page so scroll down to find out how to get it.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Liquid Brand Summit and Technorati</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_gordon.jpg" alt="Derek Gordon"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=derek_gordon" class="fn">Derek Gordon</a></cite> on April 26, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/events" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Events">Events</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/347.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F04%2F347.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>There's plenty of conversation these days about the impacts of Web 2 and social media on traditional brands -- and the marketing efforts that support them. One enterprising brand agency in Silicon Valley called <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.liquidagency.com/">Liquid</a> has pulled together a really terrific summit entitled <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.liquidbrandsummit.com/index.html">Silicon Valley in Transition</a> to think deeply about many of these questions.</p> <p>I was honored to have been invited by the folks at Liquid to be one of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.liquidbrandsummit.com/session_leaders.html">session leaders</a> and will be join by a group of people I admire deeply from places like Yahoo!, eBay, Intel, Current TV, Second Life and others.</p> <p>If you're one of the many folks professionally engaged in evolving your brand's approach to social media and social marketing, I encourage you to attend the conference. And if you go, look for me there and introduce yourself -- I'd love to meet you.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Are we missing your post?</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on April 14, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/337.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F04%2F337.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In the last few days, we've been on a bug chase in our spidering back-end. We've fixed a number of issues ... and we introduced a few new ones, doh! The latest assessment is that the recent regressions have been corrected. If you have a post from the last few days that we didn't pick up, please give us a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/ping">ping</a>!</p> <p>We'll continue to work with our great support folks who are minding the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Technorati Forums</a> to monitor the situation. In the meantime, we suggest folks configure their blogging platform to ping us directly (not through a 3rd party service), validate their <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://validator.w3.org/">blog pages</a> and validate their <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://feedvalidator.org/">feeds</a>.</p> <p><em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/ping" rel="tag">ping</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/feeds" rel="tag">feeds</a> </em></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Our First Major Acquisition!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on April 11, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/334.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F04%2F334.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Okay, this is exciting and it's been really hard to keep it a secret until now: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> has completed our first major acquisition, a great company called <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://personalbee.com/">Personal Bee</a>. I'm excited about this for a number of reasons, which I'll get into in a moment, but let me summarize by saying that Personal Bee is going to add some very powerful and engaging social publishing features to Technorati.com. And, the Bee platform will help expand Technorati's Conversational Marketing System, our product that helps brands to engage their audience and enter the global conversation. (You can see examples of the system in place on sites like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://myspace.com/shutupandsing">Shut Up And Sing</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/">An Inconvenient Truth</a>) </p><p> Now the details: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://personalbee.com/">Personal Bee</a> is a media collection platform that enables the each of us to curate and publish our own personal sites around topics, issues, or anything else we choose. It lets anyone (that means <strong>you</strong>) create and update collections of interesting citizen and mainstream media, publish them to a personal or public page, and start a following. I've been using it for a while now and let me tell you: it's fast, it's easy, and it's FUN. </p><p> It's all about democratizing the media. Social media has always been social for the people <i>creating</i> it, and now the people <i>consuming</i> it will get to join the fun. Anyone can be a publisher without having to write a blog, create a video, or anything else. All of us, the people formerly known as the audience, can create and publish collections of many forms of media, and attract our <i>own</i> audience if we choose. </p><p> For content creators and brands, recreational and professional alike, this will offer a whole other range of benefits. The Bee platform makes it quick and easy (turnkey, if you will) to create and deploy conversational and informative micro-sites full of dynamic and engaging blog posts, videos, photos, podcasts, and more. It allows these folks to foster communities quickly, and it'll give them the tools to monitor and manage the ebb and flow of information at their discretion. </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/">Ted Shelton, the founder of Personal Bee</a> , will be joining the Technorati team as our VP of Business Development and he'll have an important role helping to bring the two technology platforms together. There's still a lot of work to be done; lots of code to crunch, and lots of features to deploy. But whether you're a publisher, a reader, a brand, or all of the above, I hope you'll view this new range of services as helpful, useful, and more than a little fun, so check back often because great things are happening as we speak. </p><p> Links:</p> <ul><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.personalbee.com/">The Personal Bee website</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/">Personal Bee founder Ted Shelton's Blog</a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/acquisition" rel="tag">acquisition</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/personalbee" rel="tag">personalbee</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/conversationalmarketing" rel="tag">conversationalmarketing</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tedshelton" rel="tag">tedshelton</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Embracing Change</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on April 6, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/329.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F04%2F329.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> It's been a busy week at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> - <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/325.html">new widgets</a>, a report on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/326.html">state of our company</a> and, of course our all new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/328.html">State of the Live Web</a>, which incorporates our original <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/">State of the Blogosphere</a>. Even after all that, there's still one more piece of news I'd like to share with you this week. </p><p> I believe in building great companies. And the only way to build a great company is to bring on board the very best and brightest people. In the end, it is the team of people that make a company great, no matter who started it, or however remarkable the original technology innovation. Having the right people in the right job at the right time has been absolutely critical to the success we've enjoyed so far. I've always believed that if there is a better person for any job here at Technorati, we should do everything in our power to get that person in the door. </p><p> As I said earlier this week, we will soon celebrate the 4th anniversary of our incorporation - which seems so amazing to me, especially when I think of just how many "Web 2.0" companies have either disappeared or been swallowed whole. Here we are, four years later, still standing, still thriving. We're growing, changing and facing an abundance of new opportunities. </p><p> I also shared with you earlier this week about how Technorati has evolved from my original vision of building and providing the world's best blog search service to one that constitutes a new kind of media company - one that aggregates social media in real time from across the entirety of the Live Web based on the immediate interests and needs of our users. This evolution has been central to the amazing growth we're experiencing. </p><p> So it was at this time of great growth that I approached our Board of Directors about re-examining roles and to talk about ensuring the right people are in the right place in the company, and especially if there was someone out there who could perform the role of CEO better than I could. I'm really proud to have brought us to where we are - with nearly 10 million unique visitors per month, clearly we're doing something right. But I put forward the question: How are we going to drive that to 100 million visitors per month and beyond? What do we need to really take us up another level? And so we've decided to cast our net to see if we can find an incredible, talented woman or man - someone who shares our values and our vision - who is that perfect person to take this company to that level. </p><p> I want to be clear: I don't come to this decision lightly. I've thought long and hard about this and believe bringing in new blood may be the best way for us to continue to grow Technorati and to ensure the company soars to ever greater accomplishment. One more thing I want to be clear about: I adore the company I created - after my family, it's my proudest achievement, and I have no intention of leaving. Like other founders of some of our best-known and legendary technology companies, I intend to play a vital, ongoing role here at Technorati. If anything, I expect to resume a more active role in product development, driving innovation, and listening hard to our users while giving them the best service in the business. Maybe even get in a bit of coding every now and then. </p><p> So, now I have an unusual request: <strong>We're looking for world-class candidates</strong>. if you know or consider yourself a person who can lead this ground-breaking company to that next great level, I want to hear about it. We're looking for someone with proven operational experience, ideally in an end-user-facing internet company, who has presided over significant revenue growth and helped to scale the organization, and has had hands-on experience at an executive level leading an IPO. Send an email to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/mailto:jobs@technorati.com">jobs@technorati.com</a> with any details you have and a resume or CV. I'll make sure our professional executive recruiters immediately get the information you share with us together with my thoughts on the recommendation, and all submissions will be held strictly confidential. </p><p> My expectation is that this search could take a while - we're absolutely committed to getting the right person, and not making compromises on that. The board and I agree totally on this, and it is very gratifying to have their unqualified support for me to continue in the CEO job until we find that absolute right person. Throughout the process, I will continue to lead the explosive growth we're experiencing and demanding only the most amazing results from our equally amazing team here at Technorati. I know all of us here can continue to rely on the good will and best wishes of you, our friends and users, and for all the support I have received these last four years from more people than I can count, I want to say, simply, thank you. </p><p> Stay tuned for more great things from Technorati. </p><p> Throughout all of this, I am constantly reminded about how lucky I am. There aren't that many people in the world who get the chance to work with such a wonderful, smart, energetic, and results-driven team like the one we have here at Technorati. I'm constantly humbled by the wealth of experience, energy, and smarts that surrounds me every day. This all flows from our credo, which is to <strong>Be of Service</strong>, something which, no matter who sits in the CEO chair in the future, will never change. </p><p> UPDATE: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://techcrunch.com/">Techcrunch</a> picked up on this, you can have a read <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/06/technorati-ceo-search-confirmed/">over there</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/ceo" rel="tag">ceo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/gratitude" rel="tag">gratitude</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The State of Technorati, April 2007</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on April 3, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/326.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F04%2F326.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I typically issue the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/">State of the Blogosphere</a> report each quarter to give a glimpse into our data and what that may tell us about the global social media phenomenon. As many of you have pointed out, it's been nearly six months since the last report. Yow! </p><p> Don't worry, it hasn't gone away, although there are some changes in store for the widely read report. More on that at the end of this post, including some nice charts, so read on... </p><p> It's been awhile since I've given you a report on the <strong>State of Technorati</strong>. Many people still think of us as the world's leading blog search company I founded nearly four years ago (yeah, we will hit our 4 year corporate anniversary in May). While that statement is still true, it is only part of our story today. Technorati is now very much a media company - one that is unlike any other you've seen to be sure, but a media company nonetheless. What we bring to the fore is social media - the ways in which people are expressing themselves across the Web each and every day, in real-time. It's informative, entertaining, vexing, touching, enervating and, every once in awhile, utterly unforgettable. It is, truly, the Live Web. </p><p> Let me begin by saying the people we serve and their behaviors on our site have shifted remarkably in recent months. In brief, we've seen phenomenal growth in the use of our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">tagged media pages</a>. As the use of tags becomes more ubiquitous across all forms of social media and the publishing platforms that support them, they've become the lingua franca of the Live Web - the way in which people all over the world indicate what topics or issues are top of mind and guiding self-expression. </p><p> About nine months ago, we began to see a marked increase in the use of those tagged media pages, which back then simply included blog posts and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> photos using tags. So, throughout the fall and into December, we introduced a number of improvements and new features to our media pages, including the introduction of a huge range of multiple forms of user-generated content. Today, we include <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/posts/tag/beatles">blog posts</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/photos/tag/beatles">photos</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/videos/tag/beatles">videos</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/podcasts/tag/beatles">podcasts</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/music/tag/beatles">music</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/people/tag/beatles">people</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/events/tag/beatles">events</a> that share <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/beatles">a common tag</a> to give our visitors a view into who's saying what - who's doing what - across the Live Web, all in real time. </p><p> <strong>The Numbers</strong> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0002.gif" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0002.gif','popup','width=720,height=540,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0002-tm.png" height="400" width="533" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Slide0002"/></a> </p><p> We've seen huge growth in the number of unique visitors to our site. In March, we exceeded 9 million unique visitors, which is a 141% increase in monthly visitors in a single quarter. Moreover, our quarter-over-quarter growth in page views was about 150% at the close of March (23% Growth in January, 24% Growth in February, 53% Growth in March). As I indicated a moment ago, the majority of our page views now are no longer just in real-time keyword or blog search, as would have been the case just six months ago, but also in our tagged media pages. </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0001.gif" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0001.gif','popup','width=720,height=540,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0001-tm.png" height="400" width="533" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Slide0001"/></a> </p><p> Nevertheless, I'm also very pleased to note that Technorati is still the most visited blog search engine according to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2007/03/social_search_growth_speaking.html">recent reports by Hitwise</a>: </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/031907.png" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/031907.png','popup','width=500,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/031907-tm.jpg" height="400" width="500" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="031907"/></a> </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://quantcast.com/">Quantcast</a> adds <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.quantcast.com/traffic-compare.jsp?domain0=technorati.com&domain1=blogsearch.google.com&domain2=search.blogger.com&domain3=feedster.com&domain4=icerocket.com">more recent third-party data validating our growing lead</a> as well: </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/quantcast20070403.png" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/quantcast20070403.png','popup','width=750,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/quantcast20070403-tm.jpg" height="400" width="600" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Quantcast20070403"/></a> </p><p> And our Vice President of Engineering, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://adam.typepad.com/">Adam Hertz</a>, has been hard at work leading initiatives to ensure that our results are more complete, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/03/320.html">spam-free</a>, and delivered more quickly than any other service on the Web. We're not perfect - we're always looking to get better, but I'm heartened by the progress we've made over the last six months or so. </p><p style="text-indent:20pt;"> <strong>UPDATE</strong>: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.com/">Robert Scoble</a> has published a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/02/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-which-blog-search-is-best-of-them-all/">comparison of Technorati to Google Blog Search</a>, and he's asking for people's experiences. In his post, he notes that <em>"</em><em>It does look like Technorati has pulled ahead again in this race. The UI on Technorati is certainly ahead of Google’s, especially with the little chart of how many mentions a term has gotten."</em> He is also <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/02/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-which-blog-search-is-best-of-them-all/#postcomment">asking people to help him</a> evaluate the two engines. <br/> </p><p> Another great point of pride for me has been the introduction of new features like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/wtf/">WTF</a> (which stands for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/wtf/wtf/2007/01/31/explain-a-search-with-wtf-let-the-world-know-how-m-1">Where's the Fire</a>), that empowers users to explain why any given <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/">top search or tag</a> is hot right now, and others the power to vote on their favorite WTFs. Since we launched WTF earlier this year, we've continued to make enhancements to the service, which I hope you've noticed, like our new email-to-a-friend option for when you want to share your favorite WTFs with friends and family (and get them to vote for you, which puts your WTF at the top of search results). Over 2,000 people have created WTFs, and they've written over 8,000 blurbs, and those numbers are growing quickly! </p><p> We've been launching widgets too - building a whole new framework for them to be scalable from the get-go, and tonight <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tantek.com/log/">Tantek</a> announced the first three widgets in that class: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/04/325.html">Top Searches, Top Tags, and Technorati Authority</a>. </p><p> What has made this phenomenal growth possible, of course, is the terrific team at work here at Technorati, which has also grown remarkably. Today we are 44 people working from our offices in San Francisco and New York, there's another team of about 10 people working on our sister site <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.jp/">Technorati Japan</a>; this time last year we were less than half that size. Our structure has changed as well: we've been at work building a sales and marketing function to meet increasing demand from brands and advertisers around how it is they, too, can enter the global conversation. Again, this time last year, we barely had display ad units on our site, much less sales people to fill those units. This new group is hard at work introducing our solutions in New York and on the West Coast, and, as we announced earlier in the quarter, includes a new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/274.html">partnership with one of the world's largest advertising and marketing firms, Ogilvy</a>. </p><p> So, finally, to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/">State of the Blogosphere</a>. We're still committed to this landmark report, but, as I indicated at the beginning of this post, we've evolved it. Later this week, we'll release our new "State of the Live Web", which will include our usual State of the Blogosphere report, but will now also include additional information on areas outside of just blogs. As we continue to build out this report in coming quarters, we'll do our best to continually add new information - on video, on microformats, and more. Just as Technorati is increasingly the hub of the Live Web, our quarterly report will be as embracing of the entirely of it as our service is. </p><p> Look for our new State of the Live Web on this blog by the end of the week and let me know what you think. My hope is that it is helpful to you. </p><p> As always, our credo remains to "<strong>Be of Service</strong>" - my hope is that we're delivering on that promise better today than ever, and that this time next year it will be still more true than ever before. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogosphere" rel="tag">blogosphere</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogs" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogsearch" rel="tag">blogsearch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogsearch" rel="tag">blogsearch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/liveweb" rel="tag">liveweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/measurement" rel="tag">measurement</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/hitwise" rel="tag">hitwise</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/quantcast" rel="tag">quantcast</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/scaling" rel="tag">scaling</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/scoble" rel="tag">scoble</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search engine" rel="tag">search engine</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/solw" rel="tag">solw</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/solw2007" rel="tag">solw2007</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/sotb" rel="tag">sotb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/sotb2007" rel="tag">sotb2007</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/stateoftechnorati" rel="tag">stateoftechnorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/statistics" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/stats" rel="tag">stats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tags" rel="tag">tags</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We're doing a Splog Spring Cleaning! Watch out for side effects...</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on March 24, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/03/320.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F03%2F320.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've been busy doing a lot of performance improvements and stability enhancements of late - you may have noticed that the site is more responsive, and has fewer outages. We've also been doing a <em>lot</em> of work to increase our quality by removing <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog">splogs</a>. As you may have noticed in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/technology/19spam.html">John Markoff's article in the New York Times last week</a> there's been a recent upsurge in the amount of spam blogs that have been created in the past few months. Our first priority here at Technorati is to ensure that you don't see any of those blogs when you do a search, and while we're not perfect, we've been continuously improving. However, one of the big adjustments we've made is to reliably synchronize spam removals in our link index. We have just begun that process over this weekend, and it should continue to roll out next week.</p> <p>So, what does that mean for you, the Technorati user?</p> <p>Well, it means that you may see some changes to the number of blogs that are linking to you or your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/127.html">ranking</a> because we removed a lot of duplicate links and links from known splogs. Note that makes no implication that you are a spammer - what might have happened is that a legitimate blog linking to you may have been plagiarized to populate a fake weblog. Linking to legitimate blogs is also a tactic to camouflage links intended to fraudulently raise the rankings of spam sites.</p> <p>This recalibration of our index to be reflective of these adjustments neither targets nor protects any individual blogs but you may see variation in the order of things as the changes make their way through our systems.</p> <p>If you see issues of concern as these changes occur, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Technorati Forums</a> are there to help clear these things up.</p> <p>Our goal is that you'll see a more accurate, and less noisy system when we're done. Thanks for your patience! </p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/blogosphere" rel="tag">blogosphere</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/splog" rel="tag">splog</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/technorati+ranking" rel="tag">technorati ranking</a><br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Twittering for WTF</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on March 7, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/03/307.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F03%2F307.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Like thousands of Technorati users, I've been having a lot of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/profile/AdamHertz/wtf">fun</a> writing WTF blurbs. But because I work at Technorati, I have unusually fast access to what our users are searching for, so I often get there <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/wtf/matt-sanchez/2007/03/07/matt-sanchez-and-ann-coulter-are-pals-1">first</a>. This hardly seems fair.</p> <p>We're hard at work on ways that our users can be notified about what topics need WTF blurbs. For now, though, we decided to use our favorite community-based notification tool, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. We have a Technorati <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://twitter.com/technorati">account</a> on Twitter, which we've used mostly for system status notifications.</p> <p>Starting today, we'll twitter searches that need blurbing. Just follow the Technorati Twitter user, then write those blurbs!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati LIVE at the Independent Spirit Awards</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/aaron_krane.jpg" alt="Aaron Krane"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Aaron Krane</a></cite> on February 22, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/02/294.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F02%2F294.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Trusty-trendy correspondent Aaron here, on-site and LIVE from Los Angeles, where Technorati is partnering with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.filmindependent.org/">Film Independent</a> to provide real-time blogging and syndication for Saturday's upcoming Independent Spirit Awards. Film Independent is a non-profit organization that orchestrates The Spirit Awards and the L.A. Film Festival, and we are extremely excited about working with them on this Saturday's festivities.</p> <p>The Spirit Awards are the definitive awards ceremony for independent film; the indie-Oscars so to speak. Indie films in general have been getting a lot of attention lately, powered by underdog blockbusters like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.foxsearchlight.com/littlemisssunshine/">Little Miss Sunshine</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.climatecrisis.org/">An Inconvenient Truth</a>, both of which receive recognition at The Spirit Awards. </p> <p>Technorati has deployed me to correspond live from this Saturday's awards show. I'll be backstage blogging live and uploading photos on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://filmindependent.org/cms/">the Spirit Awards blog</a>, and snagging celebrity-interview footage for Technorati's daily <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/pop/buzztv">Buzz TV</a>. </p> <p>Which reminds me: you'll definitely want to check out <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/pop/buzztv">Buzz TV</a> next week, because we'll be showing exclusive backstage footage from the Spirit Awards, complete with all the award-winners and whomever else I can wrangle/accost. </p> <p><b>Bloggers:</b> Tag your indie-film blog posts "spiritawards," and they might appear on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://filmindependent.org/cms/index.php/spiritawards">Spirit Awards Live webpage</a> in front of millions of visitors!</p> <p>The Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by Film Independent, will occur this Saturday at 2:00 PM. Check your local TV listings, and check back here for more updates!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Introducing the Technorati Support Forum!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/janice_myint.jpg" alt="Janice Myint"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=janice_myint" class="fn">Janice Myint</a></cite> on February 20, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/02/293.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F02%2F293.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In a continuing effort to improve our service, we are proud to announce the launch of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Technorati Support Forum!</a> Here, members can search, tag, and post topics, tips, and questions regarding Indexing, Blog Claiming, Tags, Links, etc. </p> <p>As moderator and admin, Technorati Support will continually be monitoring the forum to answer questions and provide helpful tips and tricks to the site. Other members are encouraged to contribute and share as well. We hope the Support Forum will become a helpful and dynamic resource for all those with questions, tips, tricks, or cool ideas. </p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://support.technorati.com/">Come check it out!</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Problems With Search</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on February 9, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/02/287.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F02%2F287.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We're having some hardware problems with a few of our search systems. We're swapping boxes like crazy, and should be back up within 30 minutes. Our apologies!</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: We're back! Sorry for the inconvenience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Watching the WTFs roll in</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on February 1, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/02/279.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F02%2F279.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I've been addicted this morning to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/wtf?topics&sort=date">list of new WTFs that people are writing</a> - really interesting stuff! You can see the explanations that people all around the web are making on topics that they know about. We're also getting <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/search/technorati+wtf">LOTS of great feedback</a> from all of you out on the web about the new feature, and we're listening really carefully. </p><p> First off, performance and continuing scalability of the core Technorati service is still job #1. We've actually been growing pretty significantly over the last few months, so lot of our time and energy is being spent on continuing to build out the core service, and make sure that searches work well, all the time. We're also continuing to expand our work at finding and eliminating spam from our indexes, to make sure that your feeds are only filled with the best and most interesting results, not spam or plagiarism. </p><p> Now that WTF is out, we're redoubling our efforts on that front, and the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/30/comparing-blog-search-engines-for-seagate-news/">recent search comparisons</a> have helped to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/31/which-blog-search-engine-is-covering-demo-best/">shed some light</a> on areas where we need to continue to improve. Thanks for that. </p><p> We're also working very hard on making Technorati's services more relevant and timely and easy to understand for the non-blogger - the person who isn't a hard-core blogger, but wants to know what's gong on around a particular item or topic, and to be able to participate with a community of like-minded people as well. Hopefully, that participation will make everyone's experience better, and make Technorati more useful to everyone. </p><p> Keep all the great comments and feedback coming - this conversation is really important to us, especially when you tell us what you don't like, it's the best way for us to learn about how to better be of service to you. Sometimes it is a humbling experience but in the end, this is all about serving you, and providing you with the best possible service. </p><p> In the end, we're a startup of 40 people, and we're working on some pretty ambitious stuff to help make your experience of the web a more fun, satisfying one. So, I apologize for the glitches and issues, we're going to continue to make the service better, faster, and more glitch-free. And we're also going to continue to roll out new products and services that lead the way around exposing the Live Web - the real-time web. I hope that you enjoy and use <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/wtf/wtf/2007/01/31/explain-a-search-with-wtf-let-the-world-know-how-m-1">WTF</a>, it is just one of a long list of changes, features, and improvements that you're going to see coming from Technorati over the coming months. Stay tuned! </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Joins Startups in a Viral Ad Campaign for the Big Game</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on February 1, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/02/278.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F02%2F278.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Remember when Web 1.0 companies of the late nineties ran all those expensive ads during the Superbowl? Well we Web 2.0 companies like to think we've moved beyond that irrational exuberance to something much better: rational exuberance. Or maybe we're just not as rich! </p><p> But at any rate, we’re definitely not buying the same TV spots during the Big Game that companies like Webvan and Pets.com did a few years ago. Times have changed, and so have methods. So when a company called <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.meebo.com/">Meebo</a> asked us to join their viral Super-Bowl ad campaign, we were all for it. </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://meebo.com/">Meebo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://meez.com/">Meez</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://multiply.com/">Multiply</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://rockyou.com/">RockYou.com</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> have all banded together to produce some of our own citizen Super-Bowl ads, and we're not running them on TV, we're running them on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SuperDotComAdsXLI">YouTube</a>, of course. </p><p> We took the opportunity to promote our new feature, WTF, but frankly, it was just a lot of fun. So follow the link, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oWWe8mzPnE%20">watch our ad</a>, and those of our fellow startups! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did, because after all, our goal is always to <strong>be of service</strong>, even if it’s just making you laugh. </p><p> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5oWWe8mzPnE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/5oWWe8mzPnE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Unplugging again</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on January 31, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/277.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F277.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As I <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/270.html">mentioned</a> a few days ago, our colo provider is doing some urgent power upgrades at our facility. So, at 10:00 PM Pacific tonight, we are going to take a break from writing <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/wtf">WTF</a>s, gracefully bring things down and then back up again. We expect the whole thing to take about three hours. Thanks again for your patience.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>WTF! No, silly. Where's the Fire!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/liz_dunn.jpg" alt="Liz Dunn"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Liz Dunn</a></cite> on January 31, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/276.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F276.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Our users have told us that they want to know, immediately, WHY it is something is popular -- to explain what's happening out there on the Live Web, right now. They don't want to page through a hundred blog posts to figure out what Violent Acres is and why it's a top search; "Just take me straight to the good stuff, fast!"</p> <p>That's where WTF comes in. And, we’ve put the cutest and most genius people in the world on the job: YOU. When you see a hot search topic that someone has written a WTF blurb for, a big orange WTF talk bubble shows up at the very top of the search results page -- that’s how much confidence we have in our members and what they think. Everyone can vote, and that ensures that the good WTFs will bubble up to the top and the not so great explanations sink to the bottom.</p> <p>There's been a little bit of buzz already around Where's the Fire, because we “soft launched” the new feature on the website last night and only three short hours later had to take it down because its awesomeness rocked our servers too hard. And then the people who were lucky enough to have gotten a peek really did wonder, hey, where IS the fire?</p> <p>The wondering is over because the fire is BACK and it's here to stay! I love this feature because I myself am always wondering why there's so much buzz around certain topics. The first time I ever had a "WTF moment" was when I saw "Stephen Colbert" as the number one search on Technorati last summer. My brain said, what the f*$k? Then I spent about 20 minutes figuring out the story, finding the best blog post about it, and the link to the video. Then I sent an email to all my friends with the links to save them the 20-minute hunt (and to prove my web locating prowess). </p> <p>And the idea formed: what if Technorati could let those in-the-know people share their knowledge with the rest of us?</p> <p>So, WTF... try it out! Vote, read, and write, and let us know what you think. It's for you and we hope you love it!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Scheduled Maintenance</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on January 28, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/270.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F270.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen">Ian</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/261.html">reported</a> earlier this month, we've had some power problems at one of our colos. We've been working with our provider, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.xo.com/">XO Communications</a>, to fix the underlying issues once and for all. </p> <p>Unfortunately, we need to go down while some new electrical equipment is installed. We're planning an outage beginning Monday night at 9 PM Pacific. We expect to be down for several hours, but we should be back up well before our US community is enjoying their morning coffee on Tuesday.</p> <p>Meanwhile, we have some special surprises in store for you. Check with us on Tuesday.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Is Proud to Sponsor the 2007 We Media Conference</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on January 19, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/263.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F263.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>2007 marks the third year of the We Media Conference, which aims to bring together eclectic leaders of industry for conversation on important and relevant topics. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spoke at We Media 05 (hosted by The Associated Press in New York), and I attended last year's forum in London hosted by the BBC and Reuters. </p><p>We Media is a compelling experience, and if you ever get the chance I recommend you go. The diversity of the group always brings interesting insight to each conference as topic; last year the focus was "trust", and the discussion was interesting. This year the conference looks at how digital media can improve <em>real</em> communities, and how to drive investment and innovation to that cause. </p><p>We Media is orchestrated by Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin, who have recently launched a new organization called iFOCOS (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.ifocos.org/about">www.ifocos.org/about</a>). </p><p> I am very interested to see what new ideas emerge from this and future iFOCOS endeavors. You can participate in the discussion right now at the conference blog (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://ifocos.org/category/events/we-media-miami/">http://ifocos.org/category/events/we-media-miami/</a>">), and this year they've added a We Media Film Fest for user-generated videos about community (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://video.ifocos.org/">http://video.ifocos.org</a>). </p><p>Publishers who will blog / vlog / or otherwise refer to the conference, please be sure to use the tag <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/wemedia" rel="tag">wemedia</a> so we can track all the activity relating to this terrific conference. Details and registration here: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.ifocos.org/wemediamiami">www.ifocos.org/wemediamiami</a>. I really encourage you to attend if you're able. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati System Status</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on January 18, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/261.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F261.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati systems experienced a rash of problems earlier this evening when multiple server racks at our data center lost electrical power. During this event, there were episodes when pings weren't processed and web site features were not functioning. The disturbance lasted about 2 hours, but we restored full functionality about 2.5 hours ago and all systems have stabilized since then. We're taking measures to prevent recurrence of these issues and we apologize for any inconvenience this bout of system troubles may have caused you.</p> <p>You are now free to move about the blogosphere.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>PR Newswire Now Linking All Press Releases to Technorati</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on January 17, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/258.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F258.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I'm happy to announce a new partnership with the largest PR network in the world, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://prnewswire.com/.">PR Newswire</a>. Technorati will now provide real-time link tracking for all of their press releases. This will enable PR Newswire to provide its vast and global audience with not just the facts in a press release, but the real-time conversation around it - the big picture, so to speak. Lots of PR agencies already use Technorati as a valuable research tool and we think this partnership will be an even greater service not just to the PR world, but Technorati users in general - in other words, anyone who wants to see more context around the press release. <br/> <br/>All individual press releases distributed by PR Newswire will now contain by default a Technorati button that links readers to a Technorati conversation page for that press release. From that page, folks can set up an automatic watch list or Technorati-mini to monitor new posts. It's a great way to track the online buzz that is so often generated by press releases. <br/> <br/>We are excited about partnering with them, linking PR Newswire with the global conversation on the Live Web, and being of service to both the organizations creating the press releases as well as all the folks out on the web who want to be able to connect and find out more about the reactions to and the context of the release. </p><p> Of course, there's a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-15-2007/0004505868&EDATE=">press release</a> for the announcement by PR Newswire and Technorati, and you can see the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prnewswire.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fstories.pl%3FACCT%3D109%26STORY%3D%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F01-15-2007%2F0004505868%26EDATE%3D">conversation around it</a> as well. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We fixed a bug; link counts increase!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/brian_pinkerton.jpg" alt="Brian Pinkerton"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=brian_pinkerton" class="fn">Brian Pinkerton</a></cite> on January 9, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/250.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F250.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We did some digging around in the depths of the search system the other day and fixed a persistent bug. As a result, nearly everyone's link counts will increase, as will most authority figures. If you see any more cases of links that we don't seem to be finding, please let us know!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Happy Taggiversary!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on January 8, 2007</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/01/248.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F01%2F248.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Today is the second anniversary of tags. In honor of the occasion, Technorati will launch on Monday morning new and updated <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">Tag Pages</a>, reflecting the spread and ubiquity of tags across the World Live Web. </p><p> Here's a quick look at what you'll see this morning when the new pages launch (click on the image to see <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/iraq">the page</a> in all its glory): </p><p> <center><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/images/newtagspage1.png" target="_NEW"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/images/newtagspage1-thumb.png" width="364" height="461"></a></center> </p><p> When we <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000270.html">rolled out tags 2 years ago</a>, only a few other sites had implemented them as a part of their service. Now every major blog publishing platform includes them – but they’re quickly becoming a key publishing feature across the many other forms of citizen media. That’s right: tags aren’t just for bloggers anymore. You can tag photos (try <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a>), videos (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://revver.com/">Revver</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blip.tv/">Blip.TV</a>), games, podcasts, songs, or even a person! Technorati likewise is increasingly going beyond blogs to present to you the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/">best of the Live Web</a>, no matter what the media type might be. Because of our changes, tags are a better way than ever for citizen publishers of all kinds to categorize their work, making it all the more visible to people who want to find their stuff. </p><p> And, with the launch of our new Tag Pages, we've improved the way that you can check out the Live Web, too. A Technorati Tag Page shows you everything in the known universe (blogs, videos, photos, podcasts, music, people) tagged with your topic or interests, all in one place. I like to think of it as a dynamic magazine on millions of topics, updated live, in real-time.For example, check out these tags pages (and don’t forget to surf the different tabs): </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/CES">http://www.technorati.com/tag/CES</a> <br/><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/water">http://www.technorati.com/tag/water</a> <br/><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/pelosi">http://www.technorati.com/tag/pelosi</a> </p><p> The beauty of tags is that they’re metadata: data <em>about</em> data. What does that mean? Tags actually describe their subject, as opposed to, say, keywords, which just occur within them. We think tags are becoming popular because on the Live Web, categories and topics are just as useful than keywords for describing and finding content, especially when that content doesn’t necessarily contain lots of relevant text (photos, videos, songs and so on). So, the next time you see tags around a good blog post (or video or game), click on it! And next time you’re at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/">www.technorati.com</a>, try building a Tag Page on the topic of your choosing. It’s a great way to find what’s hot – right now – across the Live Web. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tags" rel="tag">tags</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Microformats services updates</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ryan_king.jpg" alt="Ryan King"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ryan_king" class="fn">Ryan King</a></cite> on December 18, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/12/237.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F12%2F237.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>If you're not familiar with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard</a> or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar">hCalendar</a>, they are simple ways to encode information about people and events in HTML pages. They are two of many microformats that are developed by a community at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/">microformats.org</a>.</p> <p>Now, on to the improvements. For the last year, our service has been running <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://suda.co.uk/">Brian Suda</a>'s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://suda.co.uk/X2V/">open source X2V</a> code on a single server with PHP 4. We've now upgraded to redundant servers and PHP 5.2.</p> <p>The redundancy will greatly increase our uptime. You can rely on this service being up all the time (barring general technorati.com outages).</p> <p>This means that you can easily mark up your contact information with hCard (see <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-authoring">the hCard authoring page</a>) and add a link for people to download a vCard version, which can be imported into address book applications. There's no need for you to publish a separate vCard file (which you'd have to keep in sync with the HTML version), we'll build it for you on the fly.</p> <p>The switch from PHP 4 to PHP 5.2 also means a switch in XSLT libraries (which X2V relies on) from Sablotron to libxml2. This gives us about 1.5 orders of magnitude improvement in performance. For example, before the switch it would take about 35-40 seconds to fetch and convert Tantek's homepage. Now it takes around 0.7 seconds. Major gratitude to PHP and libxml developers for creating high performance software.</p> <p>Also, in this upgrade, we've moved <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pingerati.net/">pingerati.net</a> to production hardware. In addition to the performance boost from switching to PHP 5.2, it now has improved uptime– you can count on it being up.</p> <p>If your service or tool publishes microformats, it would be very easy to add pinging pingerati.net whenever a piece of content is published or updated. And if you're interested in indexing microformats, we'll send the pings along to your service. See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pingerati.net/about/">pingerati's about page</a> for more information.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The new Vlog has arrived, and it's called Buzz TV</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/aaron_krane.jpg" alt="Aaron Krane"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Aaron Krane</a></cite> on December 8, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/12/233.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F12%2F233.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>That's right, we've officially launched the new Vlog, henceforth to be known as... Buzz TV!!!! It's got a new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/pop/buzztv">page on Technorati</a>, and it's also got a new "Buzz" tab in the popular box on the homepage:</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.flickr.com/photos/19878954@N00/317345648/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.flickr.com/136/317345648_f1b186a717_o.jpg" width="500" height="300" alt="buzz tab"/></a></p> <p>Now you can find the new Buzz TV right from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati.com</a> by simply clicking on the Buzz tab. So spread the word, watch, and enjoy!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We've been alerted to a bug</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on December 7, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/12/230.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F12%2F230.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've recently found a strange bug that is causing some legitimate blogs to not be indexed, you can see an example of this <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogs.marketwatch.com/barnako/2006/12/technocrati_tec.html">here</a>. We've verified that this is indeed a bug in the Technorati service, and our engineers are actively working on the issue. As soon as we have more information, including a resolution, we'll keep you informed.</p> <p>If you've been affected by this bug, my deepest apologies. And if you are ever having a problem reaching someone at Technorati, you can always contact me: dsifry AT technorati DOT com. My cell phone number is 415 846-0232. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati named 2007 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Profiled in Time Magazine</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on December 5, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/12/229.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F12%2F229.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.weforum.org/fweblive/groups/public/documents/wef_media/tech07image.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" hspace="10"/>Today was a pretty busy day! <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/%20">Technorati</a> was selected by the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm">World Economic Forum</a> (yeah, the one that meets in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum">Davos, Switzerland</a> every year!) as a Technology Pioneer. I was blown away by this, as it is a pretty high honor - only 47 companies worldwide were selected, and it means that I'll be heading for Davos early next year for the conference. </p><p> I'm eager to learn more about what the actual conference is like and to meet up with other folks who are going, so drop me a line or leave a comment below if you want to meet up there, or if you are a Swiss local interested in meeting up. </p><p> The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.weforum.org/en/about/Technology%20Pioneers/SelectedTechPioneers/2007TechPioneers/IT/index.htm">list of Technology Innovators</a> is on the WEF site, and they put up a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.weforum.org/en/about/Technology%20Pioneers/SelectedTechPioneers/2007TechPioneers/Technorati/index.htm">video of me answering some questions</a> about Technorati. </p><p> Then to boot, Technorati was <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.time.com/time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1565540,00.html">profiled</a> in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.time.com/">Time Magazine</a>, as part of their Global Business Special Section! The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.time.com/time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1565540,00.html">online version of the article</a> doesn't have the picture that went in the print magazine, so I've got a request in to the Time Magazine folks to get a copy of the picture up on the web, when I have more info, I'll put it up. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Login to other services with Technorati</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on December 5, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/12/228.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F12%2F228.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> I recently announced our support for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/144.html">Blog Claiming with OpenID</a>, I promised that <blockquote cite="http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/144.html"> Technorati will be developing additional features and services that support OpenID </blockquote> We've been busy since then working out the ways we want to integrate this stuff. There are a number of different roles in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/%22user%20centric%20identity%22" title="search Technorati">user centric identity</a> and a lot of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2006b/">people much more knowledgable about it</a> are talking about it <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/iiw2006b" rel="tag">right now</a>. To recap on my previous post on this, when using OpenID blog claiming, Technorati is a <em>relying party</em> and your blogging platform is the <em>identity provider</em>. </p> <p> The important news about Technorati and user centric identity now is that <em>you can use Technorati as your OpenID identity provider</em>. What does that mean? There are many who ask! It means that when you're logged into Technorati you can use us to login to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://zooomr.com/">Zooomr</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">Wikitravel</a>, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://iiw.windley.com/wiki/Main_Page">Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)</a> wiki, leave comments on blogs that support <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid">OpenID</a> and other services that accept OpenID for authentication -- <em>you don't need to register another password</em> (this is the part where you say "w00t!"). </p> <p> This is what you need to do to login to those services with Technorati: <ul> <li>Login to Technorati</li> <li>Go to, say, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://zooomr.com/">Zooomr</a> and click "Sign In"</li> <li>Enter the URL for your Technorati Profile i.e. <em>http://technorati.com/profile/<username></em> (for instance, I can login to those services as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/profile/spidaman">http://technorati.com/profile/spidaman</a>)</li> <li>Zooomr will ask you a few other questions to complete your profile (but <em>no password</em>) -- voila: you're logged into Zooomr authenticated by Technorati!</li> </ul> Try it out, it's pretty slick! </p> <p> Still confused? The funny thing is that it's easier to use than to explain. We're thinking a lot about extending understanding about user centric identity and the user experience, so don't dispair. We'll have more identity functionality cooking but we invite you to "kick the tires" on this bit and send us your feedback. </p> <p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/openid" rel="tag">openid</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/identity" rel="tag">identity</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/iiw2006" rel="tag">iiw2006</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Power Glitch</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on November 16, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/207.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F11%2F207.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Folks, we lost power to one of the racks in our colo a little while ago. Keyword search and a few other functions are affected. While we get everything working again, we're routing around some of the affected boxes, so you might see degraded performance and/or partial results for a little while.</p> <p>Our Ops team is in high gear fixing this, so we should be back soon. I'll post again when all is well.</p> <p>Sorry for the inconvenience!</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: We're back! Thanks for your patience!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Indexing Issues Follow-up</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on November 3, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/159.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F11%2F159.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>As <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/146.html">previously mentioned</a>, Technorati's indexing prefers Atom feeds over RSS because Atom is explicit about whether or not it bears <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.fullfeeds.com/">full content</a> or excerpts. The practice of redirecting Atom feeds to RSS is generally regarded as "downgrading" in our crawling heuristic. To work around this, we're experimenting with treating Atom feeds that are redirected to FeedBurner (which serves RSS) as full content across the board. The negative impact may be that we only index the excerpt. However, we're continuing to focus on this issue and working with our friends at FeedBurner on these kinds of issues.</p> <p>If you have a FeedBurner feed, you may also be interested in some of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/troubleshoot?id=488465">troubleshooting tips</a> they provide.<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Blog Claiming with OpenId</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/ian_kallen.jpg" alt="Ian Kallen"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ian_kallen" class="fn">Ian Kallen</a></cite> on October 19, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/144.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F144.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Blog claiming enables a blog author to associate their identity with their blog. Technorati has long supported a number of different ways for members to verify that they can author on a blog: <ul> <li>Logging into it programmatically with a username and password (AKA "quick claiming")</li> <li>Posting to it with a special link (AKA "post claiming")</li> <li>Adding a text token to your template (AKA "embed claiming")</li> </ul> OK, that sounds complicated. Well, we've added another way for authors to claim their blogs using OpenID. And if you're using an OpenID enabled blogging platform, it's easy-like-Sunday-morning easy. </p> <p> Developed by <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a> wunderkind <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://brad.livejournal.com/">Brad Fitzpatrick</a> (he probably hates being called that, sorry Brad), OpenID is an identification system that is enjoying a groundswell of attention and adoption. </p> <p> Going forward, this is how authors using blogging platforms that support OpenID can claim their blogs on Technorati with it: <ol> <li>Log in to your blog</li> <li>Log in to your Technorati member account (or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/signup/">sign up</a> for membership)</li> <li>From your account, you can <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/claim.html">add a blog claim</a></li> <li>Enter your blog URL and click <em>Begin Claim</em></li> <li>Click <em>Use OpenID Claim</em> as seen below</li> </ol> </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <img alt="Technorati Blog Claim Methods" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/weblog/openid_blogclaim_ss.jpg" border="1"/> </p> <p> Take it easy, don’t-let-the-sound-of-your-own-wheels-drive-you-crazy, easy. </p> <p> Platforms that support OpenID include <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.livejournal.com/openid/">LiveJournal</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.vox.com/">Vox</a></li> <li>Movable Type <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/plugin/openid_server_f.html">plugin</a></li> <li>Wordpress <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blog.verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/">plugin</a></li> </ul> More information about blog claiming is available on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/membership.html">Technorati</a>. There's a lot published about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid">OpenID</a> on the web. Even though it started with LiveJournal, OpenID applications aren't limited to blogging. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">Wikitravel</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://zooomr.com/">Zooomr</a> support OpenID. A growing list of software and services that support OpenID is maintained on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.openidenabled.com/software">OpenID Enabled</a> wiki. If you're a software developer interested in OpenID, there's even a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://iwantmyopenid.org/bounty">bounty</a> offered for implementers contributing OpenID support to open source software projects. </p> <p> Technorati will be developing additional features and services that support OpenID but I'm very pleased to invite OpenID-enabled bloggers to claim their blogs <em>now</em> on Technorati! And I apologize for the unwarranted Eagles and Lionel Richie references. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Coming Soon: Top 100 Blogs in French, German, and Italian</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on October 11, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/136.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F136.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati is world-renowned for its Top 100 Blogs list – this list features the Top 100 blogs out of the more than 56 million blogs we track worldwide. Over the next month, Technorati will begin publishing Top 100 Blogs lists for blogs published in French, German, and Italian. Top 100 Blogs for Japan is already published at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.jp/">www.technorati.jp</a>. </p> <p>Bloggers who want to be sure they’re included in our listings need to be sure they’ve claimed their blogs and have selected a primary language for their blog(s). Claiming your blog establishes that you are the author of the blog and allows you to use our other Technorati services to help increase the visibility of your blog. </p> <p>By claiming the blogs that you author, your profile information will appear‚ if you wish‚ with your photo or image next to all search results that involve your blog. When people click on your image, they can learn more about you‚ see the information you want to provide to them about yourself‚ and discover other blogs you author. Naturally, your profile information is completely within your control and all the information that you provide is governed by the Technorati Privacy Policy. </p> <p>In order to be included in a language-specific Top 100 list, follow these easy steps:</p> <ol> <li>Go to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/signup">www.technorati.com/signup</a></li> <li>Follow the simple (English language – sorry!) instructions.</li> <li>Be sure to select the language in which you predominantly blog – this is very important in order to be included in the language-specific listings.</li> </ol> <p style="text-align:center;"> <img alt="Technorati Signup" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati-signup.png" border="1"> </p> <p>We highly recommend that you follow the directions included for pinging – setting up pinging ensures that we’re alerted each time you’ve published something new.</p> <p>Please also include a photo of yourself or the image that you want representing you – bloggers who include images receive more clicks than those who don’t.</p> <p>And that’s it! Beta versions of these lists developed in conjunction with a project we are doing with Edelman Public Relations in several countries are already getting attention, and when these lists are formally introduced on Technorati.com in a month or so we want to be sure to include you. So claim your blog today!<br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Keyword Search - is up and ready to serve again</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on October 6, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/132.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F132.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We had a bad bout of the bot. It hurt until we found the right medicine, which, luckily, our search dudes found quickly.</p> <p>Again, we're sorry for any inconvenience. We strive to provide the best blog search on the planet; sometimes it's really hard and sometimes we struggle. We're doing our best and are very appreciative of all of you who stick with us.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Keyword Search is hurtin' - we're on it</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dorion_carroll.jpg" alt="Dorion Carroll"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=dorion_carroll" class="fn">Dorion Carroll</a></cite> on October 6, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/131.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F131.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/">Technorati Keyword Search</a> is under severe load at the moment. We are on it and hope to return normal service shortly.</p> <p>Sorry for any inconvenience and we'll post here as new information is available.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Making Sense of Link Counts</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/brian_pinkerton.jpg" alt="Brian Pinkerton"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=brian_pinkerton" class="fn">Brian Pinkerton</a></cite> on October 4, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/127.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F127.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We at Technorati are a bunch of geeks, and we're always coming up with new ways to try to measure the blogosphere. Sometimes, we just slap these numbers up on the web site without doing a great job of explaining what they are. For instance, if you search for a blog's URL on Technorati, you might find a results page that looks <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/search/technorati.com%2Fweblog">like this one.</a><br/> <p style="text-align:center;"><br/> <img alt="Search results count box" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/weblog/CountBox.png" border="1" width="538" height="137"><br/> <p><br/> We display four count-related numbers in just this little part of the page. Here's what they mean:<br/> <ul><br/> <li><strong>Rank 1,375:</strong>the number of blogs, plus one, that have more than 1,005 blogs linking to them<br/> <li><strong>1,919 links:</strong> the number of links pointing at this URL in the last 180 days<br/> <li><strong>1,005 blogs:</strong> the number of distinct blogs pointing at this URL in the last 180 days<br/> <li><strong>3,149 links:</strong> the total number of links we found pointing at this blog, ever<br/> </ul><br/> <p><br/> In other words, the numbers in the green box reflect activity in the last 180 days, while the number of links directly below the green box is the total for as long as we have data.<br/> <p><br/> The 180-day window means that ranks and link counts go up and down. Some bloggers see <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=www.perezhilton.com&days=200&width=460&height=200&type=url">their counts rise steadily</a> when others link to their blog. In the chart below, we see 200 days of linking to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.perezhilton.com/">www.perezhilton.com.</a> For purposes of ranking and comparison, we count only those links in the last 180 days (those in the red box.) Perez' counts are going up. Yay!<br/> <p style="text-align:center;"><br/> <img alt="Perez' link count" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/weblog/PerezRises.png" width="460" height="175"><br/> <p><br/> On the other hand, others see <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=strumpette.com&days=200&width=460&height=200&type=url">their counts plummet</a> when a flurry of 180-day-old activity disappears from our radar. In the chart below, the folks at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.strumpette.com/">Strumpette</a> made a big big stir about 190 days ago. But that peak of linking activity, just to the left and outside of the red box, is no longer counted. Strumpette's link counts have been falling for the last week. Bummer.<br/> <p style="text-align:center;"><br/> <img alt="Strumpette's link count" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/weblog/StrumpetteFalls.png" width="460" height="175"><br/> <p><br/> UPDATE: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=kevin_marks">Kevin</a> pointed out a subtle distinction with the rankings. Since blogs often have the same number of blogs linking to them, several blogs can share a ranking. In the example above, the ranking of 1,375 means that there are 1,374 blogs with more than 1,005 blogs linking to them, and an unreported number that have 1,005 such links.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Link Counts - we're getting better</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/brian_pinkerton.jpg" alt="Brian Pinkerton"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=brian_pinkerton" class="fn">Brian Pinkerton</a></cite> on October 3, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/126.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F126.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>About a month ago Technorati started using a new system to count links and rank blogs. The new method is both faster and more reliable than the old, so we're updating the link counts of many blogs several times a day.</p> <p>While stale link counts are a thing of the past, the new system is not perfect. When things go awry the new system produces mistakes just as fast as it had been producing correct answers. As a consequence, link counts and rankings can fluctuate up and down alarmingly in a day. Or, the system gets slow and doesn't produce answers at all. We're on the path to fixing these problems and hope to have it completely solved soon. Nevertheless, when you see something amiss, please let us know!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Spam? Actually, we just messed up. Sorry!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on October 2, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/10/125.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F10%2F125.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Whenever someone comes to Technorati and signs up as a member (to get our watchlist services, or to claim a blog, etc) we have an opt-in checkbox to subscribe to the Technorati Newsletter. You can see the form <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/signup/">here</a>. </p><p> We have been doing this ever since Technorati started, and after about a year hiatus, the Newsletter is back! We're calling it "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/newsletter">The Buzz Monitor</a>", and of course it'll have a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/newsletter/index.xml">RSS feed</a> as well for folks who don't want it via email but want it via RSS. </p><p> Since it's been a long time since we sent out a newsletter, we wanted to make sure that people who had forgotten about their Newsletter preferences had a chance to opt out again just in case they weren't interested any more in getting a newsletter from us. </p><p> So, we sent out that email this morning. </p><p> Now here's the whoops - we messed up when we sent out that email. We tried to do everything the right way - we used a third party provider that handles unsubscribes, handles full mailboxes, and makes sure to put in a "Unsubscribe" link that is personalized for each person getting the email. The idea is to make it really easy for people to stop getting the newsletter. </p><p> The only problem was that we messed up the link. The first batch of email had a link that sent people over to their Technorati Profile page, where they could un-check the "Subscribe me to the Technorati Newsletter" box on their profile page. <strong>That wasn't well thought out, and I apologize.</strong> You see, if you're not logged in to Technorati at the time, it will end up taking you to the Technorati signup page, and ask you to sign up as a new member, or sign in! So of course, if you had forgotten your Technorati username or password, you'd be screwed. Bad bad bad on us, and I am sorry for that. </p><p> We're fixing that right now, and I'm going to make sure that no new emails go out from us without all of these simple unsubscribe procedures being fixed. This is an issue that we take very seriously here at Technorati. </p><p> By the way, I want to thank <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kalsey.com/">Adam Kalsey</a>, for pointing out the problem, and for his kind suggestions . He's got a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kalsey.com/tag/permission">number of examples</a> of companies that have done this both right and wrong, and I want to thank him for his help, criticism, and feedback. </p><p> UPDATE: This is now fixed, with the unsubscribe link now doing the right thing. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Interruptions Over!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/liz_dunn.jpg" alt="Liz Dunn"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Liz Dunn</a></cite> on September 26, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/09/124.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F09%2F124.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>You probably noticed spotty service on Technorati over the last week or so. Technorati is in the last throws of a process to move our servers to a new co-location facility (the place where all our servers live safely and comfortably). We've pretty much wrapped-up that process as of this week.</p> <p>One of the final steps in this process was a switch in the IP address of www.technorati.com. While we set up our systems to tell everyone to check back with us every 30 minutes so this would happen quickly, the propagation of the information has taken longer than we originally expected.</p> <p>We have been serving our website from both IP addresses for about a week and plan to bring the old one down tomorrow (since traffic to the old IP address has diminished to almost nothing). If you experience difficulties reaching our site, this is very likely the reason.</p> <p>Thanks for hanging in there with us throughout this move -- it wasn't always pretty, but now that it's done, we'll be able to serve you much better moving forward.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Mind the gap</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on September 6, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/09/116.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F09%2F116.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Last week I <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/114.html">posted</a> about our colo expansion and move. We're moving a small pile of machines each day, and for the most part things have been going well. Unfortunately, though, last night a machine in our indexing pipeline was offline for many hours. As a result, we have a gap of about half a day's worth of link data. The pipeline is fully functional again, so we're indexing current links just fine. </p> <p>For most users, the biggest impact is that URL searches will be missing link results between Tuesday night and early Wednesday afternoon. Also, links created during this time will not be included in the blog ranking calculation.</p> <p>Fortunately, we can extract the missing data from our archives and reindex it. This is relatively easy for us, but it's time-consuming. We expect to have this done by the end of the day tomorrow, Friday at the latest. I'll update this post when all the gap has been filled.</p> <p>Sorry for the inconvenience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>A Moving Experience</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on August 25, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/114.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F08%2F114.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>A Talmudic proverb advises, "change your place, change your luck." <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html">We</a>'re moving a cage full of servers to a new colocation facility -- a carrier hotel, they call it. Those of you who've <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://flickr.com/photos/tags/technoraticolomove">followed</a> our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://adam.typepad.com/impossiblethings/2004/12/all_the_way_hom.html">wanderings</a> might recall when these same venerable boxes arrived in the place from which they're now departing. The years in between have been quite a time for Technorati.</p> <p>Our Ops team is shining, as usual. Things have proceeded with scarcely a hitch, for the most part. We have noticed a glitch or two here and there: login not working for a few minutes, link counts behind for an hour, etc.</p> <p>If you see anything untoward, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html">let us know</a>. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://sifry.com/alerts/">Some</a> of our users have helped us find a crossed wire or a plugged tube, and we really appreciate it. As always, we're here to be of service to you, so please let us know how we're doing.</p> <p>We'll be safely ensconced in our new place soon. With more good luck, we're hoping. Thanks for your support.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on July 24, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/110.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F07%2F110.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">technorati.com</a>. I hope after spending some time with the updated service, you’ll join me in celebrating its release. </p><p> For those of you with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Deficit_Disorder">ADD</a>, you can jump to the bottom of this post to get a summary of the changes and new features. For some basics, you can read our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/faq.html">FAQ</a>. Or, you can view the screencast created by our product manager, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=liz_dunn#liz_dunn">Liz Dunn</a>, by clicking on the video below: </p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/videos/technoratiscreencast2006072401.mov" title="What's New at Technorati" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://freevlog.org/popup/popup.php?url='http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/videos/technoratiscreencast2006072401.mov,'video','width=360,height=305,top=20,left=20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" rel="enclosure"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/screencast.jpg" alt="What's New at Technorati" border="0" class="thumbnail"/></a> </p><p> Three years ago this month, Technorati was officially incorporated and became a “real” company, moving out of the "science project" phase of its life. Since then, so much has happened – not only has Technorati grown and changed, so has the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_live_web">live web</a>. When I first started Technorati, my primary concern was how to be of service to a growing universe of bloggers, which then numbered in the thousands. Today, we’re tracking about 50 million blogs and we’re increasingly including other forms of citizen media, including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/friend?show=photos">photos</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/youtube/">video</a>. </p><p> While we got a lot of positive feedback from bloggers about the core Technorati service, we were increasingly hearing that we weren’t being of equal service to folks who are new to the live web. And because our mantra is to <strong>be of service</strong> – we set about renovating the Technorati site to make it easier to use for all people, whether they regularly create stuff on the web or not. </p><p> In short, we sought to make Technorati easier and more intuitive to search, discover and organize the World Live Web. What we <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">released today</a> is a big step in that direction. </p><p> First, in addition to a simpler and brighter design, we've continued to improve our core search technologies that index new information within minutes of being posted to the Web. We listened hard to your feedback - and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/weblog">redesigned the search results pages</a> to include much less intrusive (and well-marked) ads, more results above the fold, and better sorting options - including sorting by language, authority, and freshness. If you're confused, you can get a deeper explanation of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/search.html#kwd">keyword results</a> and of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/search.html#url">URL results</a>. In addition, our link-counting mechanisms have also been dramatically improved. If you're a blogger, you should notice that your blog is being counted much more regularly, and that your rankings and authority information is much more accurate and up-to-date. If you've <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/faq.html#claimweblog">claimed your blog</a> on Technorati, make sure to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/signup/">Sign In</a> - we've worked hard to personalize your experience around the site to help you keep track of who is linking to you and what you care about, especially on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati homepage</a>. </p><p> Part of this work is also to make things simpler and more stable, so that we can understand and respond to all of your support requests. Hopefully, it'll also reduce the confusion! I know that some folks have sent in support tickets that we haven't answered. If you're in that camp, I'm sorry. I hope that with the back-end and front-end changes, you'll find Technorati more usable and easier to understand. Give us another try. I hope our revamped <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/">help section</a> will answer any remaining questions you have, but if not, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html">drop us another line</a>. </p><p> Second, we've worked hard to make serendipitous discovery of interesting stuff easier and more intuitive. Our new “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover/">Discover</a>” section, drawing on a commonly understood newspaper metaphor, organizes the blogosphere into easily recognized categories, within which some of the most interesting recent posts are highlighted. From <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/news/">news</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover/tech">tech</a>, to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover/sports">sports</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover/business">business</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover/life">life</a>, scanning what’s hot in the global conversation at any given moment in time is now only one click away. In case you're wondering how we did this, Liz has a screencast for later this week that will explain. Suffice it to say that if you want your posts included in the discover section, you'll first want to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">claim your blogs</a> and then <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/edit">configure them</a> with information on the things you regularly write about. </p><p> We've improved and updated our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/">Popular</a> section, putting all of the most interesting information <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/">on one page</a>, including top searches and tags, The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati Top 100</a>, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1">Most Favorited Blogs</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/youtube/">Videos</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/books/">Books</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/news/">News</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/movies/">Movies</a>. </p><p> Third, Technorati’s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/faves">Favorites</a> feature has also been improved, enabling you to select and organize those blogs you like the most, and to see the most recent posts from your favorites each time you return to the homepage (you just need to be <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/signup/">signed in</a>!) The service now makes it easier to organize your Favorite blogs by simplifying the process of “favoriting” a blog in multiple ways, including right from your <a href="javascript:void(document.location='http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/faves?add='+escape(document.location))">browser bar</a> (drag that link to your browser's toolbar). <br/>If you've ever wanted to just get a better handle on who a blogger is and what they write about, have a look at our revamped <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">blog directory</a>. Simply put in a blog's URL into that searchbox and you'll get an at-a-glance view of what that blog is, how influential it is, and what the blogger writes about - even some interesting stats like their reach (thanks to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://alexa.com/">Alexa</a>), posting frequency, and more. </p><p> Finally, we’ve worked hard to do a much better job of highlighting the people behind the global phenomenon – the writers, the poets, the journalists, the commentators, the artists, the prognosticators, the grand-standers, the filmmakers, the justice-seekers, the photographers, the simple diarists and everyone else who publishes their expressions on the Web. I hope you’ll enjoy seeing the many ways in which we try to highlight the people who are the real power driving everything we do – we've put a lot more of these member photos on the site and I hope you enjoy learning more about the folks you love following most. </p><p> We've also been doing lots of advertising, syndication, and partnerships of late as well - you may have noticed that you can now see Technorati integrated into the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal Online</a>, joining partnerships with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://washingtonpost.com/">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.newsweek.com/">Newsweek</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/">Der Spiegel</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://ap.org/">The Associated Press</a>, and many other major media sites. If you're interested in advertising or a partnership, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/advertising.html">drop us a line</a>. </p><p> Please let us know what you think and how it is we can continue to be of service to you as we seek to be the major intersection on the World Live Web. </p><p> So, in summary: </p><ul> <li>Technorati is 3 years old! What an amazing trip so far.</li> <li>The World Live Web is all about people - We're here to help make sense of all the interesting stuff we do in real-time.</li> <li>Technorati's rolled out a major update to our site and to our back-end systems.</li> <li>We've made some major speed and accuracy improvements in core search.</li> <li>Link counting is a lot more accurate and timely.</li> <li>We've personalized the homepage so you can get a look at all the stuff you care about on one page.</li> <li>While we love expert bloggers, we've also spent a lot of time making Technorati understandable to normal people.</li> <li>We've added in lots of features to help you make sense of the blogosphere, including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/discover">Discover</a>, which is topic-based, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/faves">Favorites</a>, which gives YOU the power to pick your favorite blogs, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop">Popular</a>, which algorithmically derives the most linked-to items in the last few days.</li> <li>We've made some big changes to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">blog profiles</a> - allowing you to get stats about any blog that Technorati tracks, including the tags used, posting frequency, traffic, and Technorati ranking.</li> <li>We've made things easier for advertisers and partners, and we've been overwhelmed with demand. We're building out our capabilities, and if you're interested in advertising, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/advertising.html">drop us a line</a>.</li> <li>This is just a start - there's more to come in the coming weeks and months, including better charts, more real-time spam detection and elimination, more real-time media indexing, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/">microformats</a> integration, and additional localization and language support.</li> </ul><p> If there's one thing I'm sure of, after 20 years of building internet services and web businesses, it's that we haven't got it all right. We're going to spend a lot of time listening to you, and fixing, tuning, and tweaking. What have we got wrong? What is still broken? Believe me, I have a list about 3 feet long of those! What have we missed? </p><p> I'd appreciate it if you can use the tag <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/technoratifeedback" rel="tag">technoratifeedback</a> on your posts, or send a trackback or comment on this post. I can't promise I'll get back to everyone with an immediate answer, but I promise that I'll read them all. </p> <p>I'd also like to send out a big THANK YOU to the entire team at Technorati for all the hard work they put into this, and also to all of our great alpha and beta testers, who gave us such great feedback prior to the launch. THANKS!</p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/birthday" rel="tag">birthday</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogosphere" rel="tag">blogosphere</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogs" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogsearch" rel="tag">blogsearch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/discover" rel="tag">discover</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/favorites" rel="tag">favorites</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/feedback" rel="tag">feedback</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/givingthanks" rel="tag">givingthanks</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/launch" rel="tag">launch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/linkcounts" rel="tag">linkcounts</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/microformats" rel="tag">microformats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/update" rel="tag">update</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/scaling" rel="tag">scaling</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search engine" rel="tag">search engine</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/serp" rel="tag">serp</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tags" rel="tag">tags</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technoratifeedback" rel="tag">technoratifeedback</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/top100" rel="tag">top100</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/tantek_celik.jpg" alt="Tantek Çelik"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=tantek_celik#tantek_celik" class="fn">Tantek Çelik</a></cite> on May 31, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/108.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F05%2F108.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm very pleased to announce the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/">technology preview of Technorati microformats search</a> for contacts, events and reviews, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pingerati.net/">Pingerati</a>, a microformats ping distributor to support and grow the microformats ecosystem. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/">Microformats</a> are the key building block, the lingua franca, that make structured information open and sharable on the Web.</p> <p>Microformats enable any site to easily publish common data types such as tags, licenses, contacts, events, reviews, listings, etc. on any page on the Web, with only minor edits to their HTML. For <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tantek.com/">me personally</a>, this has meant enabling millions of people to take control of their own data, publish and update it wherever they want, whenever they want, and move it freely among services, without having it locked up behind a walled garden or trapped in a "roach motel". </p> <p>Technorati believes in the voice of the individual, and their right to own and control their data. </p> <p>In January 2005, Technorati developed the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag">rel-tag open standard</a> for tagging content on any blog across the Web, and enabled millions of bloggers to tag content on their own sites. The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">Technorati Tags</a> service allowed bloggers to follow the conversation around all the amazing and unique tags that they invented.</p> <p>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/">microformats.org open standards community</a> has developed and popularized the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar">hCalendar</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview">hReview</a> open standards that enable any website to easily publish their contacts, events, and reviews respectively in HTML, in a form both viewable by humans and understandable by machines, without unnecessary duplication of effort. </p> <p>We have worked with (and continue to work with) numerous publishers and content hosting sites -- including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://30boxes.com/">30Boxes</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogmatrix.com/">BlogMatrix</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://claimid.com/">ClaimID</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://eventful.com/">Eventful</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://judysbook.com/">Judy's Book</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://meetup.com/">Meetup</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://odeo.com/">Odeo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://upcoming.org/">Upcoming.org</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://tech.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Tech</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movie-reviews/">Yahoo! UK Movie Reviews</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Examples_in_the_wild">and</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Examples_in_the_wild">many</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Examples_in_the_wild">more</a>) -- over the past year to support this growing ecosystem of open, sharable data. I'm grateful to all of them for their participation, support, and leadership of vision as we tear down the walls and allow users to mix and match their data as they've always wanted to.</p> <p>This afternoon Technorati introduces a technology preview of microformats search for contacts, events, and reviews. Available now in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/">Technorati Kitchen</a>, I invite you to come take a look at this first of a kind realtime microformats search engine, see what the team has worked very hard to build for you, and let us know what you think and what you want from microformats search.</p> <p>If you are (or will be) publishing with microformats in your blog, and you're already <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/ping/">pinging Technorati</a>, then you are all set. Our new microformats search will index your microformats.</p> <p>For all other kinds of web pages with microformats (e.g. about/contact pages, events calendars/listings, online product reviews, social networking profiles, conference schedules, your list of favorite restaurants, etc.), we're proud to introduce the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pingerati.net/">Pingerati microformats pinger and distributor</a>.</p> <p>Whenever you publish or update such pages with microformats, use Pingerati to notify microformats indexers and aggregators, such as Technorati, EVDB, and several others in development.</p> <p>Welcome to the realtime microformats web.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/microformats" rel="tag">microformats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/pingerati" rel="tag">pingerati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/ping" rel="tag">ping</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/liveweb" rel="tag">liveweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/realtimeweb" rel="tag">realtimeweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/hcard" rel="tag">hCard</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/hcalendar" rel="tag">hCalendar</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/hreview" rel="tag">hReview</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on May 23, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/107.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F05%2F107.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Technorati and the Associated Press this morning initiated a service to connect bloggers to more than 440 AP member newspapers nationwide. </p><p> The Associated Press is the world's largest and oldest news service organization serving media outlets worldwide; it's a fundamental backbone to the mainstream media. Several months ago we and The Associated Press began to talk about about how citizen-generated media could enhance the AP in their mission to be "the essential global news network." Increasingly, what the blogosphere says about a news story becomes part of a more complete story, lending diverse perspectives and often expert commentary. The AP believed it was increasingly important to deliver the living blogosphere as a compliment to their their core professional news product. </p><p> Today, as a first step, Technorati is now connecting bloggers to the more than 440 AP member web sites in the U.S. that take the AP's Hosted Custom News product, taken by local papers such as the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRATION?SITE=NYBUE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-05-23-15-49-32">Buffalo News</a> or the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ISRAEL?SITE=MELEE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-05-23-15-31-07">Sun Journal</a>. The new service will bring blogger commentary about AP news stories to communities large and small throughout the USA, giving bloggers a voice in trusted local papers throughout the nation. For many news readers, this will be their first exposure to the blogosphere with national, international, business and sports news presented along side links to blogger commentary and perspective. </p><p> When readers visit an AP member Web site that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/US?SITE=MELEE&SECTION=HOME">Top Five Most Blogged About</a>" AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati. Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will deliver "Who’s Blogging About" that article. Now, if you have commentary about an AP story, you can get mentioned in that module simply by linking to that AP news URL, akin to what you can do with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901770_Technorati.html">Washington Post</a> articles, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7681925/site/newsweek/?articleid=12892962">Newsweek</a> articles, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,381382,00.html">Der Spiegel</a> articles, and a host of other media partners that currently work with Technorati. </p><p> We're delighted to be working with the AP and thrilled that blogger voices will now be heard in several hundred local on-line news organizations across the USA. I believe that this is a deep validation of the power of citizen media and how each person is gaining more power - power to have their opinions and thoughts heard, in a truly democratic process. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati and Edelman Partner on International Blogosphere</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on May 22, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/106.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F05%2F106.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> If there was one big take-away to Technorati's most recent State of the Blogosphere, its that the Blogosphere is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/100.html">going international in a Big Way. <br/></a> <br/>Only a third of blog posts are in English; today more people post in Japanese than in any other language. And the number one blog worldwide: its <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/103.html">老徐徐静蕾新浪BLOG </a> </p><p> With the incredible growth of the blogosphere, brands and media companies worldwide realize that their communications environment is also in for big changes. The clout that bloggers have developed the U.S. is going global. The lessons that marketers have begun to learn here--- get a clue, listen, participate, engage--- will soon apply everywhere. </p><p> Its against this background that Technorati and Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm, are announcing a relationship that's all about supporting the international growth of the blogosphere. </p><p> Technorati is accelerating the development of fully localized versions of our service in Chinese, Korean, German, Italian and French. These will be moving through development and testing over the coming months and will be complete, public products in early 2007. (Technorati today can show posts in 20 languages, but so far we've only done completely localized versions in English and Japanese). </p><p> Edelman is providing support for this accelerated development effort and will have access to these new sites as they are in development and testing this year. They will be working with their international clients on how to listen to and engage the blogosphere. How to move away from one-way, command and control marketing towards the conversational era we've entered. (For example, how do you get a brand to embrace and give voice to its customers as fully as<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/105.html"> Paramount Classics</a> has?) </p><p> Both of these developments are testimony to the incredible changes to media, marketing and communication that blogosphere is bringing about--- and to the increasing global reach of these developments. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati and Paramount Classics Bring Blog Conversation to Film Sites</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="fn">Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on May 21, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/105.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F05%2F105.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p> Technorati and Paramount Classics have announced an eighteen-month relationship to bring blogosphere discussion about each of their upcoming films directly to each film's web site. We've begun with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.climatecrisis.net/">An Inconvenient Truth</a>, the global warming documentary starring Al Gore, which will be in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.climatecrisis.net/findatheater/">select theaters beginning May 24th</a>. The site, with live blogger commentary, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/">is here</a>. Here's a link to our official <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060518/sfth076.html?.v=47">press release</a>. </p><p> Film sites have traditionally been one-way marketing vehicles. A place to find trailers, synopsis, actors' pictures, and bling for fans to download. But seldom a big tent for conversation and ideas. Paramount Classics recognizes that their film site will be more vibrant and authentic if the unfettered conversation about a film plays out on the film home page. Its a terrific way to shine attention on the word of mouth about a film--- which is traditionally difficult to find since blog discussion is spread out over thousands of blogs, but never in one place. The studio is both making word of mouth about their film easy to find, and creating traffic for bloggers who are writing about the picture. </p><p> The Inconvenient Truth site highlights both posts about the film, and posts about climate change and global warming which may never mention the film. About an hour after the site went live I dropped by and found a fascinating post that led to an oil-industry funded organization that is starting to run <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://streams.cei.org/">TV spots </a>proclaiming that global warming is bogus. Throughout the weekend I checked back to watch the blogosphere's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://thehumstain.blogspot.com/2006/05/big-oil-buffoonery.html">reaction to that drama</a>. A film site that tunes into the live web really is a lot more lively than the alternative. </p><p> As part of this relationship, Paramount Classics will place a range of ads on Technorati and select Technorati media partners that promote blogger conversation for each of its films over the eighteen months. </p><p> By the way, this is a well crafted film. Unlike Fahrenheit 9/11, which was a polemic and made the left act left-ier and the right behave right-ier, this picture does a great job of laying out its argument and --- just when you're wondering if an argument holds weight-- coming back with evidence to make its point. In many ways this film and the blogosphere were made for each other. Its going to be fascinating to watch how the left and right, the energy industry and environmentalists speak to one another in the coming weeks. No matter where you stand on the issue, go see the film. Blog about it. Its going to be a quite a consequential discussion! </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Access to Technorati from China</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on April 26, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/98.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F04%2F98.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've received a number of reports today that users in China can't get access to the Technorati site. Of course, we're taking these reports very seriously, and we're trying to get more accurate information. We'll let you know when we know more.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Power glitch!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on April 16, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/93.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F04%2F93.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We experienced some sort of power failure in our colocation facility this morning. Our service is mostly operational, but we've had to disable a few features while we sort things out. I'll report back when we're fully functional again.</p> <p>Sorry for the inconvenience!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We're Nominated for a Webby Award</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_gordon.jpg" alt="Derek Gordon"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=derek_gordon" class="fn">Derek Gordon</a></cite> on April 14, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/92.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F04%2F92.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pv.webbyawards.com/"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.webbyawards.com/images/logos_bugs06/vote4us_120x80_trans.gif" alt="Vote for us!" align="right"/></a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.webbyawards.com/">The Webby Awards</a>, the leading international honor for Web sites, nominated Technorati for the Best Practices award. Winners will be announced on May 9, 2006 and honored at The Tenth Annual Webby Awards in New York City on June 12th. We're also up for The Webby Award and the Webby People's Voice Award (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://pv.webbyawards.com/">vote now and vote often</a> -- look for us in the "Features - Best Practices" category. Voting ends May 5.)</p> <p>The folks at the Webby's say they're hailed as the "Online Oscars" by Time Magazine and that the awards are determined by the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.iadas.net/">International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences</a>, a global organization with a membership that includes musician David Bowie, Internet inventor Vinton Cerf, Naked Chef Jamie Oliver, The Body Shop president Anita Roddick, "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser, and fashion designer Max Azria.</p> <p>Thanks for the honor! The whole <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html">Technorati team</a> and the Technorati Alumni who made this possible are feeling pretty great right now.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Welcome Brian!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on April 6, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/91.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F04%2F91.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I’m thrilled to announce that my longtime friend, and Technorati's recent consultant <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.thinkpink.com/bp/">Brian Pinkerton</a> has joined our team full time. Brian will be our Director of Search, where he’ll focus on leading our continuing effort to provide the best real-time citizen-generated media search, anywhere in the world. </p> <p>Before joining Technorati, Brian served as a consultant to several Internet companies, including ours, and as an advisor to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sbvpartners.com/">SBV Venture Partners</a>, Silicon Valley venture fund. </p> <p>Prior to his consulting career, Brian was at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://excite.com/">Excite</a>@Home, where he held the positions of Senior Architect, Chief Scientist, and Vice President of Engineering. With more than 16 years of Internet experience, Brian is a pioneer of the Internet and has been described as one of the most influential people in the Web's growth. </p> <p>For instance, he created <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://webcrawler.com/">WebCrawler</a>, the first Internet search engine, while working on his Ph.D. at the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</a> in 1994. WebCrawler quickly became a popular resource on the Net, and Brian sold it to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://aol.com/">AOL</a> in 1995. Prior to the development of WebCrawler, he spent four years in NeXT's highly regarded software group, where he led the system performance effort and was instrumental in several key projects. </p> <p>Brian has also published papers in several different areas of computer systems research, and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin</a>, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.</p> <p>I know that Brian and the entire Technorati team look forward to doing great things together as we move forward. Welcome Brian! </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Commitment to Better Customer Support</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/janice_myint.jpg" alt="Janice Myint"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=janice_myint" class="fn">Janice Myint</a></cite> on January 30, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/80.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F80.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>In its commitment to continually improve its service, Technorati has recently brought me on board as a full time Customer Support Specialist. We are dedicated to addressing the current support issues in a timely manner, reducing the present support backlog, and improving online <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/publishers.html">Troubleshooting</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/faq.html">Help</a> documentation to aid users utilize Technorati to its fullest.</p> <p>One issue we are currently working on resolving is the difficulty completing blog claims where the "Checking for Technorati Goodness" page is hanging. If you see this in the meantime, please let Support know and we can help you complete the claim. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me-I am just an <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=support">email</a> away . Thanks!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Blog That Chart!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on January 16, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/77.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F77.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>A few weeks ago, we added charts to our results pages. Tonight, we added even more charty wholesomeness! Now you can click the chart on any results page to dive deep into the data. For example, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/chart/%22jack%20bauer%22">charting "Jack Bauer"</a> shows that the hero of "24" is once again having a big day.</p> <p>But that's not all - if you find a great chart and want to post it to your blog, now you can! Just look for the "Blog this chart" instructions at the bottom of every chart page and grab the code. (Note: If you've previously posted a chart to your blog, the image locations have changed - you may need to update it.)</p> <p>Here's the chart for Jack Bauer, for example:</p> <div style="border:#666 solid 1px; text-align:center; padding:10px">Posts that contain <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/%22jack+bauer%22">"jack Bauer"</a> per day for the last 30 days.<br/><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/%22jack+bauer%22"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/chartimg/%28%22jack%20bauer%22%29?totalHits=9372&size=s&days=30" style="border:0" alt="Technorati Chart"/></a><br/><br/><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/chart/%22jack+bauer%22">Get your own chart!</a></div> <p><br/> Also new on the site tonight: We added the top 5 hot tags to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">homepage</a> and the top 15 searches du jour to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search">search page</a>, plus lots of other tweaks and fixes.</p> <p>As always, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know</a> how we're doing.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Take the Technorati survey!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on January 16, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/76.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F76.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati is planning lots of exiting new features for 2006 and we would like to know more about you, your reading and blogging habits, and the features you would most like to see implemented by Technorati this year. Our team has put together a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224VSRARWQY">33-question Technorati survey</a> to help us quantify your preferences and needs.</p> <p>The first few questions are used for standard demographic profiling to help advertisers on Technorati better understand their potential audience and target their <abbr title="advertisements">ads</abbr> accordingly. We ask a few questions about general blogging behavior such as post frequency and favorite tools as well as a few questions about your favorite and most-used Technorati features. At the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to weigh-in on features and services Technorati could develop in the future such as premium member services, business intelligence products, and the searching event and review data from specially formatted blogs.</p> <p>We'd like your input! Please take a few minutes to answer all or part of our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224VSRARWQY">33-question survey</a> to contribute to the future of Technorati.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Happy Tagiversary!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on January 12, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/74.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F74.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>It was one year ago that we introduced Tags to Technorati, and what a year it's been! We're now tracking 4.6 million tags on over 75 million posts. Over half of all new posts are now tagged (using <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/tags.html">categories or rel links</a>), which means they're easier to find and enjoy. </p> <p>To celebrate our "tagiversary", we've spruced up the tag pages here on Technorati. The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">main tags page</a> now shows a special box of hot tags, to give you a peek into what people are talking about every day.</p> <p>The individual tag pages got an update, too. They now include language filtering, so you can focus on only the posts in the language you speak; and charts, so you can see how that tag is trending. For example, dig the chart on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/Thursday+Thirteen">Thursday Thirteen</a> tag. When do you suppose that tag is most active?</p> <p>We also made our tag pages more customizable. Now you can toggle the photos, posts, and links on or off. Just click the little triangle ( <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/icn-arrow-black-right.gif" alt="triangle"/>) beside each heading to hide/reveal that area.</p> <p>As always, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know what you think</a> of these changes. And remember, tags come from real bloggers categorizing their own work! If you blog, make sure you <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/tags.html">tag your posts</a> to join in the fun.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati and Dateline NBC</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on January 9, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/72.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F72.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>If you tuned-in to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/">Dateline NBC</a> last night you may have noticed a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10741370/#060108a" title="Dateline NBC blogs feature">new feature covering the top stories in the world of weblogs</a> over the past week. Stories for the new weekly segment are chosen by Dateline NBC's editorial staff from a list of possible topics chosen by Technorati each week.</p> <p>This week's episode featured stories including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/%22Bill+O%27Reilly%22">Bill O'Reilly</a>'s appearance on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/">Late Show with David Letterman</a>, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/Bush+AND+spying">Bush administration's domestic spying revelations</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/%22Ariel+Sharon%22">Ariel Sharon</a>'s deteriorating health.</p> <p>Last night's television segment is the first of a continuing series on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/">Dateline NBC</a> we hope will introduce more people to blog content and ways they might join the conversation around topics they care about.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>New images for high and low link counts</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on January 4, 2006</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/01/71.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2006%2F01%2F71.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We introduced two new features in our search results yesterday to better help you interpret a blog's link popularity at a glance.</p> <p>The Technorati talk bubble <img alt="faded Technorati talk bubble" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/icn-cosmos0.gif"/> appears faded out for blogs with no inbound links. If a Top 100 blog appears in our search results you will notice a special <img alt="top 100 Technorati" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/top100.gif"/> button next to the blog name.</p> <p>We hope you enjoy these first new features of 2006!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Making Technorati easier to use</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on December 19, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/12/68.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F12%2F68.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> easier to use and easier to understand. A few things that we rolled out: <ol><li><p><strong>Charts</strong>. Get live, updated charts on what people are saying about stuff you care about, like this, which shows a chart of the mentions of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/search/%22king+kong%22">"King Kong"</a>:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/search/%22king+kong%22"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/chart/%28%22king%20kong%22%29?totalHits=56264&size=s" alt="King Kong trend graph"/></a></p></li><li><p><strong>Improved extracts</strong>. We've worked hard to make the information in the extract that we present to you much more understandable, so that you'll be able to make a better choice before clicking through to get to the source post. Here's an extract from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/search/sifry">a vanity search</a>:</p><p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/extract1-tm.png" alt="Technorati extract" width="400"/></p></li><li><p><strong>Scoped Search based on related tags</strong>. You can now scope a search to better understand what a community of people are saying about a subject, all in a tabbed format right below the search box, as shown below:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/searchbox1-tm.png" alt="Search box"/></p></li><li><p><strong>Enhanced profile information</strong>. We've put up more information about your blogs, and if you're a tag user, you can even get a map of the most popular tags you use in your blog posts. Simply click on the author's name in search results, and you'll get taken to his or her profile page. Here's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/profile/sifry">mine</a>, along with a snippet of the tag cloud:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/profile1-tm.jpg" alt="Technorati Profile"/></p></li><li><p><strong>Lots more</strong>. Including a new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Blog Finder</a> widget to help you find out who is blogging about the topics that you're interested in (don't forget to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/account/blogs/">claim your blog</a> and add your tags, including your name!), revisions to the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/pop/">Popular</a> widget, and a new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/">tag</a> widget, all down the left-hand side of search results, and lots of other tweaks.</p></li></ol> These changes came after weeks of user feedback studies, learning by watching users and what they wanted and did on the site, and lots of tuning and tweaking of the infrastructure. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">We're looking for your feedback and comments</a> on the changes! Did we do a good job? Are things easier to use? Is your favorite vanity search more understandable? Does it have more data? What else do you want? </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The Technorati Shop!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on December 14, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/12/67.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F12%2F67.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/technoratistuff.jpg" alt="Technorati Shop" style="float:right; margin:5px 0 10px 10px;"/></a>Believe it or not, people actually told us they wanted buy Technorati stuff. (Okay, so it was just my mom, but still.) So, just barely in time for the holidays, we're proud to present the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati">Technorati Shop</a>!</p> <p>The shop features everything from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati/1055858">mugs</a> to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati.40920686">mousepads</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati/1055873">shirts</a> to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati.40921566">stickers</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati.40920681">buttons</a> to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati.40920679">BBQ aprons</a> - all adorned with the ever-fashionable Technorati logo.</p> <p>We're told that holiday orders can be placed until December 19 if you opt for the 2-day shipping. So if you're stumped for gift ideas for the blogger in your family, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.cafepress.com/technorati">get shopping</a>!</p> <p>Fun for the whole family! (Or, at least, my mom. Hi mom!)</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>What's Cookin' Right Now</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on December 13, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/12/66.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F12%2F66.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/home/illo7.gif" style="float:right; width:100px; margin:10px;" alt="Kitchen"/></a>Here at Technorati, we're a creative bunch. We come up with tons of ideas. Sometimes those ideas have promise, but aren't quite ready for prime time. Now we've got someplace to put them. Introducing the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/">Technorati Kitchen</a>, where you can see what we're cooking up.</p> <p>The first dish we're serving up is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/">Explore</a>, which is like a newspaper frontpage for any topic. Wondering what <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/business">Business bloggers</a> are talking about today? Now you can find out what the hottest posts are in any area, from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/gossip">Gossip</a> to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/gadgets">Gadgets</a> to anything else you can think of.</p> <p>Remember, the stuff in our Kitchen isn't fully baked yet, so things there may not be quite right, and they may change as we try new things. That's the point! Thanks for taking a look at it, and, as always, be sure to let us know what you think.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>New ping page</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on December 9, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/12/64.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F12%2F64.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We just introduced a small change to our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/ping/">ping page</a> we hope you will find useful. Logged in members can now easily submit a ping for their claimed blogs with just one click! We also let you know when Technorati last visited your blog so you can better determine if notifications from your blogging tool either do not exist or they are not getting through.</p> <p>The best way to ping is to setup your blogging tool once and let it automatically submit notifications for you with each new post. We realize that not all tools support this configuration and encourage users to visit the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/ping/">Technorati ping page</a> to submit updates and quickly check their ping status.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Email security advisory</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on November 23, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/11/62.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F11%2F62.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>It recently came to our attention that the Technorati brand name is being used in an attempt to inject a virus onto Windows computers. Although I personally have not received these emails, Technorati takes these false emails seriously.</p> <p>The email in question states that Technorati has suspended your email account, lists some reasons why this may have happened, and invites you to open an attached file for more details on how to reactivate your Technorati account. The attached file, "important-details.zip," contains the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mytob.ld@mm.html">W32.Mytob.LD@mm</a> virus, opening a back door on your computer, lowering security settings, and allowing your computer to be used by the attackers for local access or distributing other content online.</p> <p>Technorati's support and feedback departments as a rule do not send non-image attachments to its users. We will sometimes include a screenshot to better illustrate instructions. We also address each support request personally and attach our name to the message to let you know there is a real human on the other end.</p> <p>We recommend investing in anti-virus software for your computers. Two of the most popular home software solutions are <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/internet_security/nav2006/">Norton AntiVirus</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=100&cid=9901">McAfee VirusScan</a>. McAfee also offers a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp?cid=9913">free scan of your computers for viruses</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>The Next Small Thing</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on November 21, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/11/61.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F11%2F61.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/mini/"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/screen-mini.jpg" alt="Mini" style="float:right;margin:10px;width:80px;border:0"/></a>Have you ever done a Technorati search that was so hot, you wanted to just keep reloading the results to see the new ones appear? Well, us too. So we just made that easier.</p> <p>Introducing the next small thing in search: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/mini/">The Technorati Mini</a>. It's a fun little popup window that refreshes your favorite search every minute, so you can stay up to date while going about your web surfing as usual. Pop it open from any search!</p> <p>We hope you find it as entertaining as we do. And, as always, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know what you think</a>.</p> <p>UPDATE: Do you use Firefox or Opera? Steve Rubel has posted how to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/11/put_technorati_.html">put Technorati Mini in Your Firefox Sidebar</a>. And Brad Isaac explains how to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/2005/11/put_technorati_.html">put Technorati Mini in Your Opera Panels</a>. Thanks, guys!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati Performance Improvement Update</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on November 21, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/11/60.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F11%2F60.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm incredibly proud of the Technorati Engineering and Ops teams. They have been working day and night to deal with all of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=640&h=480&r=1y&y=r&u=technorati.com/&u=">growth</a> that Technorati has been going through. Back in July, we made it our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000329.html">highest priority</a> to improve site performance, and I and our team members kept you updated in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/45.html">some</a> earlier <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/50.html">posts</a>.</p> <p>Here's some facts:</p> <ul> <li>Since beginning our infrastructure improvements, Technorati's uptime has improved significantly - in fact, we had 100% uptime for searches last month!</li> <li>According to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/">GrabPerf</a>, even while our overall traffic has increased, our response times have consistently decreased: We are currently averaging subsecond response times for all core products: Search (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_scatter_site.php?test=2&hours=6">766 <abbr title="milliseconds">ms</abbr></a>), single-word search (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_scatter_site.php?test=80&hours=6">651 <abbr>ms</abbr></a>), and Tags (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_scatter_site.php?test=37&hours=6">836 <abbr>ms</abbr></a>).</li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/daily_multi_test.php?msmts=2,4,34,35,39,70,76">A quick comparison of search speed</a> of various blog and feed search engines is below, and you can see the continuous improvements that our engineers have been making over the past weeks and months. Technorati is the light blue line that is sandwiched right in there with Google Blog Search (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_scatter_site.php?test=68&hours=6">731 <abbr>ms</abbr></a>) and Yahoo News Blog Search (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_scatter_site.php?test=76&hours=6">835 <abbr>ms</abbr></a>).</li> </ul> <div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/blogperf20051121.png"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/blogperf20051121-tm.png" alt="Blog Search Performance November 21 2005"/></a></div> <ul> <li>Here's another insight: Open the following three links in separate tabs in your browser, and click back and forth between them to get a quick view of the frequency distribution of search results: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_frequency_site.php?test=2&hours=24">Technorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_frequency_site.php?test=68&hours=24">Google</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.grabperf.org/graph_frequency_site.php?test=76&hours=24">Yahoo</a>. The further the results are to the left hand side of the graph (consistently fast results), the better it is.</li> <li>Technorati's index is the most comprehensive, and has the fastest updates. The index is over 3 years old, currently tracks over 21.5 million blogs, over 280 million unique posts and over 1.7 billion links are indexed. We are tracking over 60,000 new blogs each day, and over 700,000 new posts per day. Our median time to index is now under 3 minutes from the moment a blog post is created.</li> </ul> <p><em>Notes: All engines noted are for the companies' blog search services. All of those graphs are updated dynamically, so don't be surprised if the numbers loook a little different when you click on them.</em></p> <p>All this, and we rolled out a number of new features and improvements to current services as well. I'm just very, very proud of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html">our team</a>, and I'm really grateful to be able to work with them each day. And we're constantly striving to do better. Please send us <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">feedback</a> and let us know how we can make things even better for you - what are we missing? How can we be more of service to you?</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Temporary Keyword Search Limitation</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on November 17, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/11/59.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F11%2F59.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Today we experienced a so-called Dictionary Attack on our keyword search service. Someone was trying to extract the contents of our index by doing a large number of searches, going way back in time. Attacks like this can cause slower response times for you, our loyal users, and this makes us very cranky.</p> <p>We get these attacks now and again, and have gotten pretty good at thwarting them. Today's <del>hackers</del> <ins>attackers</ins> were fairly crafty, and not as easy to beat back. In order to protect our servers and keep things snappy for all of you, we temporarily limited the depth of our searches to ten pages, that is, to 200 results.</p> <p>Most users don't dig that deep into search results, so we're hoping that the inconvenience will be minimal while we isolate the bad actors. Nonetheless, transparency is one of our core values, so we wanted to let people know what's up.</p> <p>We'll remove this limitation just as soon as we can, and let you know. Thanks, as always, for your patience and your support.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Hey bloggers: Claim your blog!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on November 15, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/11/58.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F11%2F58.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Do you blog? Did you know you can claim your blog here at Technorati? Well, you can! And today we made a bunch of changes to make it even easier!</p> <p>Claiming your blog on Technorati allows you to customize your blog's display in our search results. You can add your photo, add a blog description, and place your blog in up to 20 categories in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Blog Finder</a>. Plus, if you claim your blog with the Technorati Embed, you can enable cool Technorati features on your site, like a search box, "blogs that link here" link, and more!</p> <p>Give it a try! To claim your blog, you'll need to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/signup/">become a member</a> (don't worry - it takes just a few seconds) and then visit the new <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">Your Blogs page</a>. </p> <p>And as always, please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know</a> what you think of our new blog claim process.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>20 Million Blogs and Counting</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/kevin_marks.jpg" alt="Kevin Marks"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=kevin_marks" class="fn">Kevin Marks</a></cite> on October 24, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/54.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F10%2F54.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Just after 12:45 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday 23rd October, Technorati counted its 20 millionth blog. It was <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://anquetil.canalblog.com/">Les CE2/CM2 Anquetil</a>, a blog from an elementary school in Reims, France, in the heart of Champagne country. They started the blog to celebrate running 2 miles in a Relay Marathon.</p> <p>The 10 millionth blog, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://student.mblogger.cn/monique">飞啊,飞啊,飞 - 博客.CN[blogger.cn/blog/中国/china]</a>, a Chinese blog about glass, was found on May 14th, so the 'doubling every five months' that Dave observed in his latest <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/53.html">State of the Blogosphere</a> still holds true.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>State of the Blogosphere, October 2005, Part 1: Blogosphere Growth</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on October 17, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/53.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F10%2F53.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>It is that time of the year again, and I've got some new information on the continued growth of the blogosphere. I made this presentation as part of my 10 minute talk at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.web2con.com/">Web 2.0</a> on October 6, 2005. You can download <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Oct-2005-SOTB.ppt">the entire presentation</a>, complete with underlying data as well, for research use, or to make part of other presentations. All I ask is that you keep attribution and the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/press/graphics.html">Technorati logo</a> in a prominent place wherever the data is used.</p> <p>Earlier State of the Blogosphere reports are available as well - from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/34.html">August 2005</a>, from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000298.html">March 2005</a>, and from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000245.html">October 2004</a>.</p> <h5>So, What's New?</h5> <p>Well, first, the basics. The chart below shows the continued growth of the blogosphere. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati </a>is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs, and the total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months. This trend has been consistent for at least the last 36 months. In other words, the blogosphere has doubled at least 5 times in the last 3 years. Another way of looking at it is that the blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago:</p> <div style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0002-1.gif"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0002-1-tm.png" alt="Technorati weblogs growth over time"/></a> </div> <p>The next chart shows the number of new blogs tracked each day by Technorati. About 70,000 new weblogs are tracked every day, which is about a new weblog created each second, somewhere in the world. It also appears that blogging is taking off around the world, and not just in English. Some of the significant increases we've seen over the past 3 months have been due to a proliferation of chinese-speaking weblogs, both on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://spaces.msn.com/">MSN Spaces</a> as well as on Chinese sites like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogcn.com/">blogcn.com</a>.</p> <p>Now that we've been tracking spam and fake blogs, we've included the daily tracking statistics for spam and fake blogs from June 1, 2005. We are currently tracking about 2% - 8% of new weblogs are <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html">fake or spam weblogs</a>. They are represented as the red spikes that are over and above the legitimate (human-created and updated) blogs shown in blue below.</p> <div style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0003-4.gif"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0003-4-tm.png" alt="New Technorati blogs per day"/></a> </div> <h5>Spam Attacks</h5> <p>In the last couple of days, there's been a lot of talk about a set of spam blogs that have been set up to do keyword stuffing using a lot of popular phrases, including many popular bloggers' names. Lots of people have discussed this, including <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/10/16/Splog-Explosion">Tim Bray</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/16#When:1:16:16PM">Dave Winer</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/2005/10/16.html">Ed Cone</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/17/chris-pirillo-tells-google-to-fix-blogspot/">Robert Scoble</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/16/1302867.html">Chris Pirillo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/16/f-the-spam-bloggers/">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/splog">others</a>. In order to adequately analyze this, I updated the chart to include the blog data we've been tracking all the way up to yesterday, October 16, 2005.</p> <p>In the past 2 weeks, there were 805,000 new weblogs created. In addition, Technorati tracked an additional 39,000 new fake and spam weblogs, which means that about 4.6% of the total weblogs tracked were fake or spam.</p> <p>One of the remarkable things that comes out of looking at the data is that while spam and fake blogs are a problem, they are not an overwhelming problem - In fact, we've experienced much worse spam attacks in the past. The key difference in the spam attack over the weekend is that the attackers' posts included many popular search terms including popular bloggers' names - which is a common ego search on engines like Technorati. This made this particular attack much more visible to a number of high profile bloggers than attacks in the past.</p> <p>A look at the posting volume over the last year is illustrative as well, and is included in the chart below:</p> <div style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0004-4.gif"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0004-4-tm.png" alt="Daily posting volume"/></a> </div> <p>You can see from the post statistics that there are on average, between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts made each day. That's about 33,000 posts per hour. Spam and fake posts are reported here as well, and on average an additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are spam or fake. This number changes on a daily basis as we track spam attacks, and have reached as high as an additional 18% over the regular daily volume.</p> <p>One may argue that the numbers I'm reporting are <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/10/how-many-feeds-matter.html">way too low</a>, or that Technorati isn't finding all of the spam weblogs out there. That's a legitimate argument, and by no means am I asserting that Technorati is capturing all of the spam and fake weblogs in existence. We know we're not getting them all, and every day we're working on improving our algorithms and data quality. However, our hard work means that we can still provide you with comprehensive timely results without having to do anything drastic, like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000717063627/">removing a major hosting provider</a> with millions of legitimate blogs from our indexes.</p> <p>We're also working closely with the other players in the industry in order to close the gaps. In September, we helped organize the second Web 2.0 Spam summit, and representatives from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Six Apart, Tucows, Wordpress, Feedster, and many more companies and organizations participated. The summit was quite successful, and I expect that there will be many more to come.</p> <h5>To summarize:</h5> <ul> <li>As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 million weblogs</li> <li>The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months</li> <li>The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth</li> <li>About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day</li> <li>About a new weblog is created each second</li> <li>2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs</li> <li>Between 700,000 and 1.3 million posts are made each day</li> <li>About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second</li> <li>An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average</li> </ul> <h5>What's Next?</h5> <p>Of course, one important question rears its head - how to make sense out of this monstrous onrush of conversation, and just get what you want - the best information from the most authoritative or influential people, in the most timely manner.</p> <p>More on that in my next two posts, covering the growth of tags and of context in search and discovery.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati/Edelman Blogger PR Survey Results</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on October 10, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/52.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F10%2F52.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm pleased to announce that Technorati and Edelman have completed a report that examines how traditional blogging and <abbr title="public relations">PR</abbr> intersect and what bloggers think about mainstream companies. The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/https://extranet.edelman.com/bloggerstudy/" title="Technorati Edelman PR survey results">full results</a> are now available.</p> <p>Thank you to the 821 participants in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/49.html">Technorati/Edelman <abbr>PR</abbr> Survey</a>.</p> <p>We quantified some interesting perspectives of the blogging community and its perception of corporate communication. Some highlights:</p> <ul> <li>34% primarily blog to be seen as an authority in their field.</li> <li>Over 50% blog about companies at least once per week.</li> <li>63% believe blogs are the most trustworthy source of product information.</li> <li>Over 98% take steps to correct factually incorrect portions of a blog post.</li> <li>Over 80% prefer to receive information from non-executives.</li> <li>Blogs of individual employees are considered more trustworthy than blogs endorsed by a corporation.</li> </ul> <p>Technorati continues to work with public relations firms and corporate communications team to better understand the best practices of blog interaction. We believe that markets are conversations and will continue to seek out new ways to add information and context to conversations online.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>New Ways to Search</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on October 7, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/51.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F10%2F51.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Here at Technorati, we just love new features. And we released a couple this week that are all about new ways to search.</p> <h5>Search This Blog</h5> <p>There's a new link in keyword search results: "Search this blog." Click it to search an individual blog for any term. For example, ever wondered how many times <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a> has mentioned <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/copyright/">copyright</a>? Turns out the answer is <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/copyright?from=boingboing.net">487 as of today</a>.</p> <p>You can also search by blog URL from the <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/">Search main page</a> or any of the Search Options boxes. And for all you <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/">members</a> with claimed blogs, you can search your own blog from your profile page. Give it a try!</p> <h5>Search in Blog Finder</h5> <p>There's a new feature in <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Blog Finder</a>, too. Check out the new search box on the right side of every Blog Finder page. That enables you to search the most authoritative bloggers in each category for any text you like.</p> <p>Say you were checking out all those hot <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Politics/">Political blogs</a>. Wanna see what they're saying about "Bush" today? <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/Bush?blogtag=Politics">Search away!</a> Or maybe you'd prefer to see what <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Gardening/">Gardening blogs</a> have to say about "bush." You can <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/Bush?blogtag= Gardening">do that too</a>!</p> <p>You can access this new feature from the <a href="/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/">Search main page</a> or any of the Search Options boxes, too.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Site Performance and Improvement Update</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="fn">Adam Hertz</a></cite> on September 29, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/50.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F50.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We've been making a lot of updates and tweaks to our backend, as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/45.html" title="Technorati Performance and Scalability Improvement Progress Report">described at the beginning of the month</a>. Most of these changes have been around speed and performance, and I hope that you've noticed the difference. We've also been listening to a lot of your feedback and comments. There's still a lot more to do, and we will continue to improve site functionality and speed.</p> <p>For <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> search, we've been looking closely at how we calculate the number of links and sources pointing to a blog, and we've made some tweaks to the display to better surface recent blog activity. Technorati now displays the total number of links from blogs over the last 6 months. Up until now, we displayed a count of all links from blog homepages, which tended to weight more highly blogs that have been around for a long time, even if they have not been posting recently.</p> <p>The change affects how Technorati ranks its over 18.5 million blogs. Our new link counts expose more active blogs and rising stars, allowing readers to discover blogs currently receiving the attention of the blogosphere.</p> <p>Michael Barnett (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/">interdictor</a>), a blogger who actively covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is an example of an emerging <br/> blog of interest in the past few months. Interdictor is currently the 90th <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">most uniquely cited blog tracked by Technorati</a>.</p> <h5>How things work</h5> <p>Technorati determines a blog's ranking based on the number of links from unique blogs over the last 6 months. If John links to Susie 5 times in 5 months Technorati will count 5 new links to Susie from 1 unique source. Susie's rank will change based on this 1 new source.</p> <p>We hope you find this change a useful metric for the discovery and evaluation of blogs. We continue to store all blog links over the history of Technorati -- almost 3 years! -- and we will continue to evaluate best practices for determining the authority of a weblog. A complete list of links to a blog is still available through our <abbr>URL</abbr> search results.</p> <p>What do you think of the changes? Spotted a bug or inconsistency? Send us a note and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know how we may be of service</a>. Our staff continues to work night and day to create the most accurate and useful service for you. Some of the best ideas and improvements of the Technorati service have come from you, our community of users. We'll keep the light on for you. :)</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati/Edelman Blogger PR Survey</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on September 23, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/49.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F49.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati and Edelman are partnering in an attempt to better understand how blogging and traditional <abbr title="public relations">PR</abbr> intersect, and what bloggers think about communication from mainstream companies. Edelman is a global public relations firm representing brands such as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.xbox.com/">Xbox</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.nissanusa.com/">Nissan</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://dove.com/">Dove</a>. Working together, we created a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.bloggerstudy.com/blogstudy_q.asp" title="Technorati Edelman blogger PR survey">18-question survey to better understand the blogging community and your preferred methods of hearing from companies</a>.</p> <p>Is receiving a press release from a <abbr>PR</abbr> agency just more spam? What about product discounts or free goods? Are there better ways for traditional marketers and bloggers to interact? What is the implicit contract created when marketers and bloggers communicate? What are the ethical questions? What are companies not listening to that they should be listening to?</p> <p>Please take a few minutes to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.bloggerstudy.com/blogstudy_q.asp" title="Technorati Edelman blogger PR survey">answer the survey</a>. This survey is intended as a starting point for discussion, and not a comprehensive be-all, end-all survey. Personally identifiable information is not tracked but you may explicitly give us permission upon submission to send you the final results of the survey. We will review the aggregated results and include the findings in a public white paper next month to help inform bloggers, companies, and public relations firms. All survey respondents have the option to receive this white paper via e-mail as soon as it is available.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Announcing Second Web Spam Summit</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on September 14, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/47.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F47.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati is organizing the second Web Spam Summit taking place next week at Google's headquarters in Mountain View. Technical leaders from companies and projects involved in publishing and indexing content on the web will come together for a day-long summit to exchange best practices and cultivate new ways of addressing spam as a community.</p> <p>The summit will focus on web spam and include product development updates since the first web spam squashing summit in February. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/38.html">Web spam</a> includes comment spam, link spam, TrackBack spam, tag spam, and fake weblogs.</p> <p>Key industry players such as Ask Jeeves, Feedster, Google, Microsoft, Six Apart, Tucows, WordPress, and Yahoo! have all confirmed their attendance. Technical members of products involved in the fight against web spam are invited to attend the Web Spam Summit. If you or another member of your team would like to attend please send a prompt reply to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/mailto:rsvp@technorati.com">rsvp@technorati.com</a> with some introductory information about you and your product including a paragraph about each of the following topics.</p> <ul> <li>Problem Statement: describe a form of web spam currently facing your product.</li> <li>Current Solutions: describe a current solution you have implemented and how it works.</li> <li>In Development: describe a solution you are working on and why it will be better.</li> </ul> <p>The summit will not be broadcast. This privacy allows the best possible technical members directly involved in the fight against web spam to attend the summit with full candor.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Blog Finder Update</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on September 6, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/46.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F46.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>One of the great things about working at a company like Technorati is that when people talk about you, you know. So to all the people who've given <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Blog Finder</a> a spin and emailed or posted feedback, we thank you. Your feedback is helping us making Technorati better!</p> <p>If you tried Blog Finder last week and it seemed like your tags weren't being saved, please give it another try. We had a problem that affected a small percentage of users, but it should be all better now. And, as always, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=blogfinder">tell us</a> how we're doing.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/09/technorati_blog.html"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/blogfinder-screencast.png" alt="Blog Finder Screencast" width="200" height="129" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"/></a>And special thanks to Technorati member <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/profile/hmestrum">Hans Mestrum</a>, who made a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/09/technorati_blog.html">fabulous screencast</a> about Blog Finder in Dutch and English. If you're not sure how to get your blog listed, this is a great step-by-step guide. Thanks, Hans!</p> <p>Still have questions about Blog Finder that aren't answered in the screencast or on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/blogfinder.html">Blog Finder Help page</a>? <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=blogfinder">Contact us</a> - we're always happy to help.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Introducing Blog Finder</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on September 1, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/44.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F44.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/tbf.gif" alt="Technorati blog directory" style="float:right;margin:10px"/></a>You know you can use Technorati to find blog posts about anything and everything. But what if you don't want blog posts - what if you want to find entire <i>blogs</i> about a certain subject? That's where the new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Technorati Blog Finder</a> comes in.</p> <p>Blog Finder takes the power of the folksonomy - bottom-up, user-generated <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">tags</a> - and applies it to the Blogosphere. Looking for a blog about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Nanotechnology">nanotechnology</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Sports">sports</a>, or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Politics">politics</a>? Look no further. Type in any text, or click on a featured tag, and find blogs on any subject. You can even use "OR" to put multiple tags together, like: Find a blog about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/blogs/Motherhood%20OR%20Fatherhood%20OR%20Parenting">Motherhood OR Fatherhood OR Parenting</a>.</p> <p>By default, the blogs are presented in order of authority, which means highly-linked blogs appear first. So each of these Blog Finder pages is like a mini <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Top 100</a> for any topic you can imagine. You can also sort each tag by how recently the blogs have updated, or alphabetical by title.</p> <p>And for all you bloggers out there, this is a great opportunity for your blog to get found. If you're already a Technorati member with a claimed blog, all you have to do is visit your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/#blogs">Configure Blog page</a> to choose which tags you want to use. You can add up to 20 tags per blog.</p> <p>If you're not a member and don't want to become one, we won't hold it against you. All you have to do is put a little snippet of code on your site and ping us and we'll add your blog to Blog Finder. For the skinny, visit the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/blogfinder.html">Blog Finder help page</a>. If you're a developer, that's the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/help/blogfinder.html">place to go</a> as well.</p> <p>Blog Finder is Beta, and you know what that means. There are some miscategorized blogs in there, and we're probably missing a lot of stuff. This is where you come in. If you see something funky, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=blogfinder">tell us</a>! We want to keep improving this new service.</p> <p>And as always, thanks for using Technorati.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Performance and Scalability Improvement Progress Report</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on September 1, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/09/45.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F09%2F45.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>It's been a long and busy month, and I wanted to give y'all an update on the infrastructure, performance and scalability progress here at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a>. There's been a lot going on as I <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000329.html">described earlier in the year</a>, and we've made some progress, but ther are important things that are still broken and are being fixed this month.</p> <h5>The situation as of couple of months ago</h5> <p>The blogosphere has been growing at an explosive rate - Technorati is now indexing over 16 million blogs, with about 100,000 new blogs created every day. There are over 1.4 million new posts every day, and about 22% of those posts are from spam or fake blogs, which means that even after we pull out the spam and fake blogs from the indexes, we are dealing with about 1.2 million posts each day. </p> <p>We just weren't expecting that kind of sudden growth, both on the posting side and also on the search side, and frankly we didn't plan well enough to handle the load. We've been adding new machines to our datacenter - over 400 now - and more coming each week, and we've been fixing bugs and making performance enhancements on the web site as well. </p> <p>We also made some pretty significant performance improvements to keyword search - most now returning in 1 to 2 seconds; you can see some <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.webperformance.org/grabperf/raw_data_site_test.php?test=2&hours=6">details on those statistics</a> and also a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.webperformance.org/grabperf/month.php?test=2">month view</a>.</p> <p>However, Cosmos search (or <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> search) is still being worked on, and is often timing out under the increased load. Unfortunately this is also one of the searches that bloggers find most compelling, as it helps you to all know who is linking to your blog, and it is the very first type of search that Technorati made available, so it is near and dear to our hearts. Everyone here also uses it every day, so it really sucks when it isn't working right.</p> <p>As search traffic has grown, we've also seen an increase in support and feedback requests. It's my goal to make sure that we respond to all support requests within 24 hours of getting the request. right now, we're not meeting those goals, and some people haven't had a human response in over a week from when they sent in their request.</p> <h5>What we're doing</h5> <p>Once we got our keyword search infrastructure back on track, our infrastructure team has been working 100% on fixing Cosmos search. Our current plan is to have Cosmos search back up and running by the end of September, and you'll see incremental improvement throughout the coming month. I'll keep you informed on progress of this critical project. As the project progresses throughout the month, you'll be able to see progress because you'll see fewer and fewer error messages when you do a <abbr>URL</abbr> search as September progresses.</p> <p>We're busy expanding out our support capabilities, and also putting together tools to make it easier for users to help answer their own questions before a Technorati support staffer has to get involved, and we've already made a bunch of fixes and feature enhancements to help fix the most common support requests, like fixes in our blog claiming code.</p> <h5>What about new stuff?</h5> <p>While we work on these core infrastructure issues, we're not resting on our laurels in our dedication to provide great tools and services for bloggers and for people who want to keep track of what's happening on the web right now. There'll be more to announce in the coming days and weeks, stay tuned...</p> <h5>Thanks for your support</h5> <p>I am consistently humbled and amazed at how great our users are. You guys have stood by us as the service has grown and has gone through growing pains. We take this trust very seriously, and are working very very hard to live up to your expectations. Thanks.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati and Newsweek</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on August 25, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/43.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F08%2F43.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681901/site/newsweek/"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/newsweek-1.png" style="border-width:0;text-align:right;float:right;display:block;" alt="Newsweek Blog Roundup" title="Newsweek Blog Roundup"/></a> I'm proud to announce that <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://newsweek.com/">Newsweek</a> are working together, including a deep integration of posts and links from bloggers (here's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7681925/site/newsweek/?articleid=9024914" title="Technorati integration on Newsweek">an example</a>) into Newsweek's site. This includes the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681901/site/newsweek/">Newsweek Blog Roundup</a> and summary widget on every Newsweek page (shown here on the right). This acts just like a "most viewed articles" or "most emailed articles" widget - only the determinations are made by watching the number of bloggers that are linking to Newsweek articles. It shows the top 10 Newsweek stories generating the most discussion on weblogs within the past 7 days. You can see it on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.newsweek.com/">Newsweek homepage</a> and on each of the article pages, simply scroll down a bit and look on the right hand side.</p> <p>In addition, Newsweek has launched a section covering the conversations in the blogosphere about Newsweek's columnists as well. For example, here's the data on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7631975/site/newsweek/">Steven Levy</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7632009/site/newsweek/">Anna Quindlen</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7631998/site/newsweek/">Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball</a>. You can also subscribe to the search via <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed by Technorati Watchlist (available at the top of each Blog Talk), and you can dive as deep as you like by getting <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/msnbc.msn.com/id/9024914/?partnerid=100">all of the posts</a> as well.</p> <p>My kudos to the folks at Newsweek for their forward thinking recognizing and including bloggers inside their tent. This is just the beginning of many ways that mainstream media and bloggers can work together to provide a more complete picture of a story - facts, opinions and feedback all shown in one place, making for a better reader experience.</p> <p>One more thing - if you think that this is a cool feature, and you want to see Newsweek and other media companies roll out systems like this, leave a comment, or send a trackback, or better yet, go the the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7681901/site/newsweek/">Blog Roundup</a> and at the bottom of the page, rate the article. That'll send Newsweek a message that this is something you want to see more of.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Multiple Tag Search</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on August 17, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/42.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F08%2F42.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>You can now search Technorati for multiple tags! Just separate each tag with the word "OR" to add an posts tagged with your specified tag to your search results.</p> <p>Multiple tags are a great way to follow your favorite topics while accounting for the variety of methods people tag their posts. A <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/college%20OR%20university">tag search for college OR university</a> displays the latest posts indexed by Technorati tagged with either "college" or "university." You could also mix tags in an area of interest such as tracking the mobile gaming industry through a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tag/PSP%20OR%20GameBoy">tag search for PSP OR GameBoy</a>.</p> <p>I am sure you have many more ideas how multiple tag search can help you discover new content and keep informed of the latest events in the topics you care about. Enjoy!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Improved Top 100 and Language Filtering</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on August 16, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/40.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F08%2F40.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>We updated Technorati tonight with enhancements to our top 100 most popular blogs as well as expanded options for language filtering keyword search.</p> <h5>Popular Blogs</h5> <p>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati Top 100</a> now includes a photograph, member name, and a link to the blog author's Technorati profile page for each claimed weblog. The Top 100 is based on links from the more than 15 million blogs currently tracked by Technorati. If you see your site on the list, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/#blogs">claim your blog</a> to add your name and photo to the listing!</p> <h5>Language Filtering</h5> <p>We added the ability to filter keyword search results by language a few weeks ago. Tonight we expanded the list of languages to 20. You can now filter by Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese. Thanks to all our users around the world for your feedback and enthusiasm about Technorati's language-specific search. We are still adjusting our language tools - this feature is still in beta - but please continue to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback" title="Send Technorati feedback">send us feedback</a> and let us know how we can improve.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Announcing Technorati Mobile</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on July 28, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/07/33.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F07%2F33.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://m.technorati.com/"><img alt="Technorati mobile" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455im_/http://static.technorati.com/pix/mobile/tn-logo-mobile.gif" width="288" height="29" style="float:right; margin:6px 0 12px 10px"/></a>We've created a special version of Technorati especially for handhelds and mobile phones. If you've got a web-enabled mobile device, just visit <kbd><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://m.technorati.com/">m.technorati.com</a></kbd> for a Technorati experience designed especially for small screens.</p> <p>Take Technorati with you wherever you go for the latest on what bloggers are talking about right now. I enjoy using the mobile site just to check on the most popular Technorati searches and explore emerging trends.</p> <p>Please <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">let us know how it works for you</a> and what else you would like to see from Technorati!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>We Speak Your Language</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on July 27, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/07/32.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F07%2F32.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>English is the main language spoken here in Technorati HQ, but you can also hear Japanese, Dutch, German ... even a little Yiddish! So we've had <i>shpilkes</i> to introduce some language filtering tools for a while now.</p> <p>Tonight we rolled out the first one. You can now filter keyword searches by language! Just look at the top of the results column for a dropdown menu. We've filled it with the top 10 languages we see in the blogosphere right now (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and of course All). We'll be adding more as we see them appear in the blogosphere.</p> <p>This new feature is only in keyword searches for now, and it's still in beta. We think our algorithms for doing language detection work reasonably well, but there's still lots of room for improvement, and for giving you, the blogger, more control about specifying the language that your posts are in. We're working on additional features to really help tune and tweak the system, but we thought that what we had so far was useful enough that we wanted to share it with you, in the spirit of "release early, release often". So, as always, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html?type=feedback">please let us know how we're doing</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Technorati is Slammed (Updated)</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on July 7, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/07/29.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F07%2F29.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>UPDATE: Although we continue to be seeing a big spike in new postings and website usage, we have resolved some of our performance concerns. Thanks for being patient, and know that we are not letting up in our efforts to keep the service working for you.</p> <p>If you are experiencing problems using the Technorati search, it's because we are under a heavy load today. The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/londonbombings/">bombings in London</a> today have had a huge impact across the world's weblogs, and our website is experiencing a corresponding spike in use. We apologize if you are having a bad experience, and wanted to let you know we are working to whip things back into shape.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Scheduled downtime</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_ault.jpg" alt="Richard Ault"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Richard Ault</a></cite> on July 6, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/07/27.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F07%2F27.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati.com will be offline for about thirty minutes tomorrow, July 7, at 4 a.m. San Francisco time (11:00 UTC) as we install new hardware at our data center.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>New Technorati Embeds</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/derek_powazek.jpg" alt="Derek Powazek"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Derek Powazek</a></cite> on June 24, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/23.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F23.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Hey Technorati Bloggers! If you're one of our many members that have claimed a blog and have embedded Technorati's code in your blog template, you may have noticed some oddness recently. Basically, we messed up and rolled out some new code that changed the look on your blogs. We apologize for that - launching a new site always has its ups and downs, and we screwed that one up unintentionally. But we just rolled out the new version that should address all the feedback we received.</p> <p>The new version of the embed code is fully customizable. You can configure it to add a search box to your site, include a link to your profile, show your member photo, and include a link to a Technorati search page that shows all the links to, and discussion about, your blog. And if you don't want any of that, no problem! You can turn it off entirely. To customize it, just visit <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/account/#blogs">Your Account</a>.</p> <p>If you haven't yet claimed your blog, what are you waiting for? <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/signup/">Join Technorati</a> and claim your blog today! You can add a description of your blog that will show up on search results, and you can also have your picture show up beside your posts in search results. You also get a bunch of additional statistics on each of your claimed blog. It's a great way to add some additional personalization and pizzazz to your search results, and to help promote your blog.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Live 8 Blog Central Launches!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on June 23, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/25.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F25.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm proud to announce the launch of Blog Central for the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://live8live.com/">Live 8</a> concerts, at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://live8.technorati.com/">live8.technorati.com</a>. We were asked by the Live 8 folks along with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.joetrippi.com/">Joe Trippi</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://powerlineblog.com/">John Hinderaker of Powerline</a> to help achieve the vision of Live 8: "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.live8list.com/en/">We don't want your money, we want your voice</a>".</p> <p>Come and add your voice - there has been no better opportunity for bloggers to be heard. The Live8 folks have a bunch of really interesting and exciting things planned around the concerts and also around promoting the conversations about African debt relief, ending world hunger, and getting the leaders of the G8 countries to put this high on their agendas for the upcoming G8 summit in Scotland on July 8th. We've got widgets that you can add to your blog to signal your support, and to be counted, all you have to do is tag your posts with the "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/tag/live8" rel="tag">live8</a>" tag. It's simple, and fun! To add it to your posts, add this code:</p> <p><code><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/live8" rel="tag">live8</a></code></p> <p>And to add the widgets, there's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://live8.technorati.com/about/badge.html">a page with a selection</a> to add to your template.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Updated: Technorati is throwing a Party</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/richard_ault.jpg" alt="Richard Ault"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Richard Ault</a></cite> on June 21, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/events" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Events">Events</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/22.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F22.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p><strong>Update:</strong> It was a great time! Thanks to all who attended, we hope you had as much fun as we did. You can read peoples personal accounts and see pictures <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/Technorati%20Party">here</a>.</p> <p>Technorati is throwing a party tomorrow night (Wednesday June 22) and you are invited! We'll toast the amazing growth of the blogopshere (doubling every five months!), the amazing support we've received from the world of bloggers, and all of the new developments at Technorati.</p> <p>We have a brand new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.com/" title="Technorati">web site</a> and we've also been hard at work improving our search and the underlying technologies we use to power up Technorati. Also, we are now a global organization with the introduction of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.technorati.jp/">Technorati Japan</a> (more international sites on the way).</p> <p>In thanks, we're inviting you and your friends to House of Shields tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Technorati will provide some food, drinks are on your bill (hey we are a startup after all). All of the people who work at Technorati will be there, so come on down and tell us what you think.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/876213">House of Shields</a> is located at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39+New+Montgomery+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA">39 New Montgomery Street</a>, half a block from <abbr title="Bay Area Rapid Transit">BART</abbr> and directly across the street from the Palace Hotel. We hope you can join us for an evening of celebration in this historic San Francisco bar and lounge. You don't have to, but please RSVP by sending an e-mail to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/mailto:rsvp@technorati.com?subject=House%20of%20Shields">rsvp@technorati.com</a> so we get a good headcount and plan accordingly.</p> <p>See you there!</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Embedded blog claims rollback</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on June 21, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/21.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F21.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati rolled out our new website yesterday. In the process of the relaunch we made a change to the default settings of some JavaScript embeds you may have included on your website - this was a screw-up on our part.</p> <p>We heard feedback from some users regarding the code Technorati serves to its members as part of their JavaScript blog claims. This change was not intentional and we are rolling back to the old JavaScript embed code for all of our existing users. We apologize for changing the code displayed on your website without notification or your explicit permission and we just rolled back to the old method.</p> <p>Why the change? Technorati is expanding the options available to members who utilize JavaScript to claim their weblog. Soon you'll be able to include a search box, your profile photo, and we plan to add more options in the future. </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Welcome to the New Technorati!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on June 20, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/20.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F20.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm pleased to announce the launch of this <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/">major redesign of the Technorati service</a>. We've been listening to your feedback, and we hope we've reflected that in this release. We are still making lots of additions , fixes, and changes, and expect to continue to do so over the coming months. So, if you have feedback, please tell us because we want to know what is of value to you, our users. </p><p>We've made a big step with this release. Having said that, we also know we have more improvements to make and we're working hard to implement them. Here are some of the highlights of this redesign:</p> <ul style="margin: 1em 0 1em 4em;list-style:disc"><li>We've improved the user experience, making Technorati accessible to more people and, specifically, people who are new to blogging. We've tried to make it very simple to understand what Technorati is all about, and make it easy to understand how we're different from other search engines.</li> <li>We've learned from the incredible success of tags, and brought some of the those same features into search, as well as expanding tag functionality. Now, if your search matches a tag, we bring in photos and links from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.furl.com/">furl</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://del.icio.us/">delicious</a>, and now <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.buzznet.com/">buzznet</a> as well.</li> <li>We now have more powerful advanced search features. You can now click the "<strong>Options</strong>" link beside any search box for power searching options.</li> <li>We've added more personalization. Sign in, and you'll see your current set of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/watchlist/">watchlists</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/#blogs">claimed blogs</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/account/">profile info,</a> right on the homepage, giving you quick access to the stuff you want as quickly as possible.</li> <li>New <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/watchlist/">Watchlist capabilities</a> have been added. For example, you no longer need a RSS reader to watch your favorite searches. Now you can view all of your favorite searches on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/watchlist/">one page</a>. Of course, you can still get your watchlists via RSS, and it is even easier to create new watchlists. You can also get RSS feeds for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/tags/">tagged posts</a>, just check the bottom of each page of tag results!</li> <li>We've added a bunch of new features for power bloggers as well - For example, put in the URL to your blog, and you'll notice that we've done a lot of work eliminating duplicate results as well as separating links from blogrolls and sidebars from links within posts. This was one of our most-requested features from power bloggers.</li> <li>There's lots more to come. We are continuing to increase performance of the site and scalability of the service, and we're also actively working on a much faster system of displaying accurate blog link counts, and ways for you to do better sorting and filtering of your search results and watchlists. Keep your eyes on this space (or subscribe to this Blog!) as we launch, tweak, and tune the site to your wishes.</li></ul> <p>Please keep sending us your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/feedback/">feedback</a>! It is invaluable, and has helped us immeasurably to improve the service. There's still a <strong>long</strong> way to go, and we have lots more in store for the next few months - and your comments are the first thing we all check every morning. Please keep us on our toes, and keep telling us how we can continue to improve and be of service to you.</p><p>And on a personal note, I'd like to say thank you to all of our beta testers who sent in such wonderful constructive feedback, and the entire development team for getting everything done with such efficiency, balance, and flair.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Welcome to our new Public Beta!</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="fn">Dave Sifry</a></cite> on June 9, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/06/18.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F06%2F18.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>I'm pleased to announce the launch of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/">public beta</a> of this major redesign of the Technorati service. We've been listening to your feedback, and we hope we've reflected that in this release. This is a <strong>beta</strong>. So, if you have feedback, please tell us because we want to know what is of value to you, our users. We've made a big step with this release. Having said that, we also know we have more improvements to make and we're working hard to implement them. Here are some of the highlights of this beta release:</p> <ul style="margin: 1em 0 1em 4em;list-style:disc"><li>We've improved the user experience, making Technorati accessible to more people and, specifically, people who are new to blogging. We've tried to make it very simple to understand what Technorati is all about, and make it easy to understand how we're different from other search engines.</li> <li>We've learned from the incredible success of tags, and brought some of the those same features into search, as well as expanding tag functionality. Now, if your search matches a tag, we bring in photos and links from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.furl.com/">furl</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://del.icio.us/">delicious</a>, and now <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://www.buzznet.com/">buzznet</a> as well.</li> <li>We now have more powerful advanced search features. You can now click the "<strong>Options</strong>" link beside any search box for power searching options.</li> <li>We've added more personalization. Sign in, and you'll see your current set of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/watchlist/">watchlists</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/account/#blogs">claimed blogs</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/account/">profile info,</a> right on the homepage, giving you quick access to the stuff you want as quickly as possible.</li> <li>New <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/watchlist/">Watchlist capabilities</a> have been added. For example, you no longer need a RSS reader to watch your favorite searches. Now you can view all of your favorite searches on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/watchlist/">one page</a>. Of course, you can still get your watchlists via RSS, and it is even easier to create new watchlists. You can also get RSS feeds for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/tags/">tagged posts</a>, just check the bottom of each page of tag results!</li></ul> <p>As I mentioned, this beta is now public and available on our Web site at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/">http://beta.technorati.com</a>. We encourage you to check it out and, if you'd like, blog about it.</p> <p>And please keep sending us your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://beta.technorati.com/feedback/">feedback</a>! It is invaluable, and has helped us immeasurably to improve the service. There's still a <strong>long</strong> way to go, and we have lots more in store for the next few months - and your comments are the first thing we all check every morning. Please keep us on our toes, and keep telling us how we can continue to improve and be of service to you.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class="entry_info"> <div class="inner"> <h3>Meet the Staff</h3> <img class="photo" src="/web/20090818080455im_/http://technorati.com/static/img/staff/niall_kennedy.jpg" alt="Niall Kennedy"/><h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="fn">Niall Kennedy</a></cite> on May 25, 2005</h4> <p> <span class="tags">Category: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></span> <span class="permalink"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/weblog/2005/05/13.html">Permalink</a> · <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090818080455/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fweblog%2F2005%2F05%2F13.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry_body"> <p>Technorati is full of interesting people with diverse backgrounds who come together every day to keep the site running and to create new ways for you to find what's happening on the World Live Web. 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