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CIO Sessions: Technorati VP of engineering: Dorion Carroll

In this episode of CIO Sessions, Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the challenges with scaling operations as the blogosphere continues to grow. He also discusses how they’re able to index millions of blog posts in near real time, surviving the...

Tags: CIO, Technorati, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Technorati VP of engineering: Sifting through Splogs

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, discusses the challenges inherent in trying to index the growing blogosphere. Because the company grew right along with it, they were able to evolve defenses, like keywords and posting heuristics, against the onslaught of spam blogs.

Tags: Technorati, Engineering, Blogging, Internet, Spam Blogs

Videos 2008-10-28

Short clip: Technorati reducing costs during weekend downtime

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, explains that because bloggers don't blog as much on the weekends, the company can save on costs by using fewer servers during those low times, while adding servers from the Amazon cloud to deal with heavy weekday traffic.

Tags: Technorati, Downtime, Blogging, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dorion Carroll

Videos 2008-10-28

Short clips: Technorati on sifting through splogs

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, discusses the challenges inherent in trying to index the growing blogosphere. Because the company grew right along with it, they were able to evolve defenses, like keywords and posting heuristics, against the onslaught of spam blogs.

Tags: Technorati, Blogging, Internet, Dorion Carroll

Videos 2008-10-28

Short clip: Technorati serves up sub-second responses

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, says that while the active blogosphere is between 15 and 30 million blogs, there they around 130 million indexed altogether. The challenge for their small technical team is to sift through that ever-expanding amount of data, while serving up sub-second response times.

Tags: Technorati, Blogging, Team Management, Internet, Management, Dorion Carroll

Videos 2008-10-28

Technorati VP of engineering: Dorion Carroll

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the challenges with scaling operations as the blogosphere continues to grow. He also discusses how they’re able to index millions of blog posts in near real time, surviving the economic downturn and what differentiates the...

Tags: Technorati, Engineering, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Technorati VP of engineering: Dorion Carroll

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the challenges with scaling operations as the blogosphere continues to grow. He also discusses how they're able to index millions of blog posts in near real time, surviving the economic downturn and what differentiates the...

Tags: Technorati, Engineering, Blogging, Internet, Dorion Carroll

Videos 2008-10-28

LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down

LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall downI missed something...What was this article about? Firefox was mentioned, but in what way was it failing? I don't like articles with links in them that I'm supposed to click on. What ever happened to the art of...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, SlideShare, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, LinkedIn, Technorati

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down

To Zoli Erdos' tongue in cheek crack at LinkedIn, Technorati and FireFox failures I can confidently add Slideshare. Although it doesn't make the cut for speed of failure following funding, ($3 million raised in May), it is behaving very badly today. I have a penchant for crashing...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, LinkedIn, Technorati, Twitter, Web Browsers, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Twitter's failure updates: not good enough

Update 5/30/08 11:00am EDT: TechCrunch says "Twitter’s doing an excellent job of actually communicating with users all of a sudden." That's nonsense. Yes, they've improved, but there's a long way to go to achieve failure communication greatness. Twitter's downtime, lack of reliability and...

Tags: Technorati, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Blogging, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Technorati fails, fixes, and fully discloses

Technorati, a major blog indexer, recently shut down their spiders to fix severe data problems. From the blog post explaining the incident emphasis added: [A] small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this blog post. The spidering outages allowed...

Tags: Technorati, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Facebook's Beacon fiasco for starters. At this point it's clear that Beacon was flawed from the beginning, and the company and its CEO are having trouble handling the controversy after earning their way to the top of the social...

Tags: Facebook, Podcast, Technorati, Blog, OpenDocument Format, Podcasts, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Internet, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Technorati rolls out Percolator and Blogger Central

Technorati rolled out its latest effort to fine tune its blog search service today, with a renewed focus on the blogger community and new ways to discover content, according to company CEO Richard Jalichandra. "We are going back to service the bloggers," Jalichandra said, who took on...

Tags: Technorati, Blog, Sprint Communications, Blog Search, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Scaling out like Technorati

Scaling out like TechnoratiSounds pretty regressive to meSo in order to get fast performance for an application whose use seems, on the whole, somewhat unclear, we abandon the idea of non-application specific methods of representing data and revert to old-fashioned everyone invents their own data representation approaches.This strikes me as...

Tags: Performance management, performance, Scaling-Out, Technorati

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Scaling out like Technorati

My fellow World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, was also in Dalian, China for the “Meeting of New Champions” or “Summer Davos” as the Chinese like to call it. During Davos in January, I had the great misfortune of pitching Alfresco against Technorati in a...

Tags: Google Inc., Technorati, Data, Blog, User, JN, DS, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Technorati repositions itself away from blogs

Technorati repositions itself away from blogsYeah, socialismThat always works.

Tags: Blogging, Technorati, blog

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Technorati vs. Microsoft? No Contest

Technorati vs. Microsoft? No ContestTechnorati ping is working?Technorati ping is working? I thought it is dead! Last year thousands people complaint about ping service!I have received a survey/feedback on April 25, Hope lot of people have got too! They fixed all issues and improved features in one month? Or going...

Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, Technorati, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Technorati vs. Microsoft? No Contest

Did Robert Scoble dedicate part of his life working for a “dead” company? OR, did Microsoft, Scoble's former employer, “die” the day Scoble left the company?Scoble today at his blog:Microsoft: why haven’t you changed your search strategy yet? Look at your search on Live.com. Now compare to Technorati. Which one...

Tags: Google, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Technorati repositions itself away from blogs

Last night Technorati launched a significant site re-design, moving away from its routes as blog search engine, into one that places much more emphasis on the social web as a whole. Instead of making blogs the default, search results now claim to show "everything in the known universe about...", and...

Tags: Search, Technorati

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Technorati makes first major acquisition

Blog search site plans to use technology behind news aggregator Personal Bee to add new "social publishing" features. Technorati, a blog search and ranking site, has acquired The Personal Bee, a news aggregator that lets people organize and share content around specific topics. This is the...

Tags: Acquisition, Technorati, Blog, Personal Bee, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Performance Management, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Caroline McCarthy, Web Technology

News items 2007-04-12