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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's transitions to the Live Web and taggers: I didnt know this but Technorati has gone from being a company that basically searches blogs to being the "recognized authority on user-generated content search" and "pre-eminent authority on what people are saying online." In any case, despite the lofty self references, the company issued its latest today state of...; Tags: Web Technology, Search, General; Blog posts 2007-04-05
Technorati Tag (widget): Technorati Tag widget generates the code for a Technorati tag and copies it to the clipboard. Just type in a word or a phrase, and hit return. Then you can paste the code onto your editor.; Tags: Technorati; Software downloads 2007-03-30
Is search broken?: Search engines say they use complex algorithms to help users find exactly what they want Googles "Im feeling lucky" button (btw, does anybody use it?), right below the search box implies that very thing.The legions of Ph.Ds working for the search engines publish oodles of scientific papers on complex mathematical...; Tags: Google, Search; Blog posts 2007-03-03
WTF is Technorati up to?: WTF is Technorati up to?Clever title....caught my eye at least.Pagan jimSHAME ON YOU AND ZDNET!!!!Foul language even by abbreviation is unnecessary and insulting. ZDNET should remove your "story" and reprimand you.Where The Fire?According to Technorati, WTF = Where's The Fire. Not sure what you meant :)No offence meantIf the...; Tags: Technorati, Technorati WTF, offence, WTF; Discussion threads 2007-02-01
WTF is Technorati up to?: Blog search engine Technorati has launched a new feature called "Wheres The Fire?" that allows users to write explanations of topics or search terms that are floating around the blogosphere. The Technorati community can then vote on the best submissions ala Digg, which will then appear alongside search results and...; Tags: Search, Technorati; Blog posts 2007-02-01
TAC featured on Technorati's Buzz TV: The Apple Core was featured today on Technorati's Buzz TV: Click To Play; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-01-23
Latest stats on the blogosphere: David Sifry of Technorati published the latest numbers outlining the state of the blogosphere as measured by his company's search engine. Here is the summary:Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.Today, the blogosphere is doubling in...; Tags: Technorati, blogosphere; Blog posts 2006-08-07
Technorati: tracker of the blogosphere, or its shaper?: Technorati: tracker of the blogosphere, or its shaper?Technorati forming the blogosphereor Technorati forming Technorati?Right on the nailTechnorati is helping diversify the sources of the news we read and for that, it's already a champion of the new economy.The quality of articles in the blogs I go to is amazing and...; Tags: Blogging, Technorati, blogosphere; Discussion threads 2006-05-24