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Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogging" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogging">Blogging</a></h4> <p>Lately some very interesting tools, tutorials, and videos have been created by the talented and smart people who really like Technorati and what we do. People heart us, and we heart them right back! (And not regular hearts, either. Big puffy pink hearts.)</p> <p>Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman conducted a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://ryanishungry.com/?p=19">video interview about what Technorati does and how</a> with Tantek Çelik, Brian Pinkerton, Kevin Marks, Ryan King, and me. </p> <p>Anil Dash and the crew at Typepad made a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/sending_your_bl.html">funny video about Technorati tags</a> (which Typepad now supports) and how they make their way from the Six Apart offices (4 blocks away) to Technorati.</p> <p>Wendy Boswell at Lifehacker did a two part tutorial about Technorati's search features and functionality, and how to use them. The first tutorial is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://lifehacker.com/software/top/technophilia-ten-ways-to-search-with-technorati-191692.php">Ten ways to search on Technorati</a>; the second is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://lifehacker.com/software/top/technophilia-ten-more-ways-to-search-with-technorati-193234.php">Ten more ways to search on Technorati</a>.</p> <p>This entry on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/07/top-10-reasons-why-you-need-a-technorati-account/">10 reasons you need a Technorati account</a> is great and maybe we should send that to every single person with a blog. I'll work on that.</p> <p>Our new engineer <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://andreischeinkman.com/">Andrei Scheinkman</a> noticed that there are some really cool <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tools/">tools, plugins, and widgets</a> that our users have created to enhance their Technorati experience. Perhaps one will surprise and delight you?</p> <p>Thank you, people named and hyperlinked above, for your support and enthusiasm. If you know of a great addition to this list, email me at liz at technorati dot com and we'll add it to our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/help/howtos.html">User Tips</a> or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tools/">Tools</a> pages.</p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/115.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/114.html">A Moving Experience</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/adam_hertz.jpg" alt="Adam Hertz"/>Adam Hertz</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/114.html">August 25, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <p>A Talmudic proverb advises, "change your place, change your luck." <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://flickr.com/photos/tags/technoraticolomove">followed</a> our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/about/contact.html">let us know</a>. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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 class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/114.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/112.html">What are browser buttons?</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/liz_dunn.jpg" alt="Liz Dunn"/>Liz Dunn</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/112.html">August 21, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogosphere" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogosphere">Blogosphere</a></h4> <p>Today's screencast addresses an oft-overlooked feature on Technorati...the browser button! Browser buttons are little shortcuts that live in your browser's toolbar so that you are just one short click away from performing an action. Technorati's browser buttons let you favorite a blog while you're reading the blog, or do a search from a blog to see what other blogs are linking to it. But why am I even typing this out, when you can just watch it happen with your own eyes!</p> <p><br/> <p style="text-align:center;"><br/> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/browser_buttons.mov" title="What are browser buttons?" rel="enclosure" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/browser_buttons.mov?url='+this.href,'video','width=640,height=480,top=20,left=20,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/20060902131835im_/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/screencast.jpg" alt="What are browser buttons?" border="0" class="thumbnail"/></a><br/> </p></p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/08/112.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/111.html">What is Popular?</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/liz_dunn.jpg" alt="Liz Dunn"/>Liz Dunn</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/111.html">July 28, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogging" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogging">Blogging</a></h4> <p>This is the first in a series of screencasts, written, directed, and performed by me, which will give you a little tour of each of Technorati's features. Since this week I had to try and learn video editing and audio synching and compression and a bunch of other things that I didn't know and still don't really know, I picked the easiest feature to cover: Popular.</p> <p>It's less than a minute, watch it!</p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/whatispopular.mov" title="What is Popular?" rel="enclosure" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/whatispopular.mov?url='+this.href,'video','width=640,height=480,top=20,left=20,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/20060902131835im_/http://static.technorati.com/static/img/blog/screencast.jpg" alt="What is Popular?" border="0" class="thumbnail"/></a> </p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/111.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/110.html">Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/dave_sifry.jpg" alt="Dave Sifry"/>Dave Sifry</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/110.html">July 24, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <p> After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/videos/technoratiscreencast2006072401.mov" title="What's New at Technorati" onclick="window.open('http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://freevlog.org/popup/popup.php?url='http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835im_/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/friend?show=photos">photos</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/help/search.html#kwd">keyword results</a> and of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/help/faq.html#claimweblog">claimed your blog</a> on Technorati, make sure to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/help/">help section</a> will answer any remaining questions you have, but if not, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/news/">news</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/discover/tech">tech</a>, to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/discover/sports">sports</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/discover/business">business</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">claim your blogs</a> and then <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/">Popular</a> section, putting all of the most interesting information <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/">on one page</a>, including top searches and tags, The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/">Technorati Top 100</a>, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1">Most Favorited Blogs</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/youtube/">Videos</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/books/">Books</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/news/">News</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/pop/movies/">Movies</a>. </p><p> Third, Technorati’s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal Online</a>, joining partnerships with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://washingtonpost.com/">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.newsweek.com/">Newsweek</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/">Der Spiegel</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/discover">Discover</a>, which is topic-based, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/faves">Favorites</a>, which gives YOU the power to pick your favorite blogs, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/birthday" rel="tag">birthday</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogosphere" rel="tag">blogosphere</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogs" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogsearch" rel="tag">blogsearch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/discover" rel="tag">discover</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/favorites" rel="tag">favorites</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/feedback" rel="tag">feedback</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/givingthanks" rel="tag">givingthanks</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/launch" rel="tag">launch</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/linkcounts" rel="tag">linkcounts</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/microformats" rel="tag">microformats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/update" rel="tag">update</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/scaling" rel="tag">scaling</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/search engine" rel="tag">search engine</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/serp" rel="tag">serp</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/tags" rel="tag">tags</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">technorati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/technoratifeedback" rel="tag">technoratifeedback</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/tag/top100" rel="tag">top100</a></p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/110.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/109.html">Searching a River of News</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=kevin_marks" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/kevin_marks.jpg" alt="Kevin Marks"/>Kevin Marks</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/109.html">July 14, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/blogosphere" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Blogosphere">Blogosphere</a></h4> <p>There's been a blogosphere discussion about the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/search/%22river%20of%20news%22">River of News</a> approach to keeping up with blogs - showing recent posts from all the blogs you read, newest first.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/14.html#When:3:43:13PM">Dave Winer likes this approach</a> and says <q>other reader models force the user to delete articles to get them out of the way. To me this is dissonant, why would I want to delete someone else's article? In fact I want to keep them all so I can search them.</q></p> <p>Dave, do try out <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/faves">Technorati Favorites</a> It will import your OPML, and lets you restrict searches to your favorite blogs, as well as showing a river of news.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/the-river-versus-folder-rss-approach/">Robert Scoble wants to put blogs in folders</a>, which you can do by tagging your favorite blogs, so you can search or read a subset too. Give it a try, and let us know what you think.</p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/07/109.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/108.html">Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=tantek_celik#tantek_celik" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/tantek_aelik.jpg" alt="Tantek Çelik"/>Tantek Çelik</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/108.html">May 31, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <p>I'm very pleased to announce the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://kitchen.technorati.com/">technology preview of Technorati microformats search</a> for contacts, events and reviews, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://pingerati.net/">Pingerati</a>, a microformats ping distributor to support and grow the microformats ecosystem. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://microformats.org/">microformats.org open standards community</a> has developed and popularized the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar">hCalendar</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://30boxes.com/">30Boxes</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://blogmatrix.com/">BlogMatrix</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://claimid.com/">ClaimID</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://eventful.com/">Eventful</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://judysbook.com/">Judy's Book</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://meetup.com/">Meetup</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://odeo.com/">Odeo</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://upcoming.org/">Upcoming.org</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://tech.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Tech</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movie-reviews/">Yahoo! UK Movie Reviews</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Examples_in_the_wild">and</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Examples_in_the_wild">many</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/microformats" rel="tag">microformats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/search" rel="tag">search</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/pingerati" rel="tag">pingerati</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/ping" rel="tag">ping</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/liveweb" rel="tag">liveweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/realtimeweb" rel="tag">realtimeweb</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/hcard" rel="tag">hCard</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/hcalendar" rel="tag">hCalendar</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/tag/hreview" rel="tag">hReview</a>. </p> <div class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/108.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/107.html">Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/>Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/107.html">May 23, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7681925/site/newsweek/?articleid=12892962">Newsweek</a> articles, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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 class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/107.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/106.html">Technorati and Edelman Partner on International Blogosphere</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/>Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/106.html">May 22, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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 class="more"><a class="more links" href="/web/20060902131835/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/106.html">Blogs discussing this post</a></div> </div> <div class="entry"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/105.html">Technorati and Paramount Classics Bring Blog Conversation to Film Sites</a></h3> <h4 class="byline">Posted by <cite class="vcard"><a href="" class="url fn"><img class="photo" src="/web/20060902131835im_/http://www.technorati.com/pix/staff/peter_hirshberg.jpg" alt="Peter Hirshberg"/>Peter Hirshberg</a></cite> on <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/05/105.html">May 21, 2006</a>. Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://technorati.com/weblog/technorati_news" rel="tag" title="Technorati Weblog posts about: Technorati News">Technorati News</a></h4> <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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/http://www.climatecrisis.net/findatheater/">select theaters beginning May 24th</a>. The site, with live blogger commentary, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/">is here</a>. Here's a link to our official <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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/20060902131835/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. 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