Technoratimedia: Ad Network from Technorati

Published at June 17, 2008   Filed Under Advertising   0 Comments  

The first blog search engine Technorati launched an ad network today for blog and social media publishers called Technorati Media. There are many ad networks already and Technorati wants to join the party. Six Apart also launched an ad network recently if you remember.
It is always good for bloggers to have different options for [...]

Is Technorati and Alexa dead?

Published at June 1, 2008   Filed Under Technology   7 Comments  

I am looking at Alexa stats and Technorati rankings, surprisingly none of them is working correctly at the moment. Both of them stopped working or behaving weirdly, i hope it is a small glitch in the system.
Alexa is usually behind 2 or 3 days in displaying stats but now from May 19th it is [...]

Twingly (Spam Free) Blog Search Engine

Published at April 2, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   6 Comments  

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 realunched today

Published at December 4, 2007   Filed Under Internet   2 Comments  

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.

Technorati Topics

Published at September 11, 2007   Filed Under Blogging   2 Comments  

Technorati today announced a new feature called ‘Topics‘. This section replaces the recently designed homepage of technorati.
Topics is a new feature showing a stream news style blog posts from authoritative blogs. Topics include Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life. The topics pages gives 10 blog posts in a continuous stream, you can interrupt [...]

Technorati Face Lift: Embracing Social Media

Published at May 23, 2007   Filed Under Blogging   1 Comment  

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 [...]