Technology Bites

Backtype is a new service that helps you to find, follow and share comments. it aggregates comments from the blogosphere at one place, you can search comments and people.
When you post comments on various sites using your Blog URL and your name, they will be aggregated here at one place. Each commentator will get [...]

There is a blog storm happening around a “Social RSS Reader” called Shyftr. What Shyftr does is takes RSS Feeds and publishes on its own site, of course these articles have comments, and a community around it, which they call as Social Network for RSS Feeds. The idea is interesting, but Shyftr is doing this [...]

Twingly is a new blog search engine currently in private beta. What is unique about twingly over others like Technorati or Google Blog Search is that twingly claims they are 99.99% spam free. That sounds interesting, becoz both Technorati and Google Blog Search have the spam problem, particularly Technorati counts all the spam blogs.

Technorati is relaunched today with focus on the blogosphere. Recently launched topics feature is replaced with aggregator style pages. Frontpage shows the hot blog posts from the blogosphere and individual category pages show blog posts on nivhe topics. Technoratu calls this new improvement as Technorati Percolator.

North x East has a list of 50 most influential bloggers, its worth to check all the blogs on the list. The article is quite nicely written with good information on why the blogger is influential.
Nick Denton founder of Gawker Media and editor of Valleywag is on top followed by Kevin Rose of Digg [...]

Technorati has introduced lot of changes to their site, its no more a blog search engine, we can call it as social media search. Technorati CEO Dave Sirfy says now users come to technorati for not only blogs but also to find other social media, in response to these changes in user needs technorati now [...]