Tag: TECHNORATI

Technorati, a company best known for providing a blog search engine and ranking service, has branched out into the world of Twitter with a new service called Twittorati. But unlike Alltop's Twitterati (notice the slightly different spelling?), which tracks Twitter updates from top Twitter users, Twittorati shows updates from top bloggers. Here's how it works. Technorati already assigns ...

What do you get when you add Technorati + Mahalo + Google? One part human led guide team, one part ranking of individual posts, and one part powerful algorithm that decides what's hot and what's not, based on what is fed into it. Loud3r. Today, Loud3r is launching 25 separate sites on 25 different niche topics that range from Motorcycles to Web 2.0. Big deal, right? There are content gathering ...

Intwition is a little bit like Technorati for Twitter. Enter a URL and Intwition will let you know how many pages have been linked to by Twitter users, who your most active Tweeters are, and how many times they've tweeted your messages. There are plenty of services that let you know when your web site has been mentioned by another blog, but the is the first service we've seen that lets you ...

The New York Times has launched a redesigned technology news page. The old school paper has partnered with some new school content partners, adding stories from third party sources like IDG and PaidContent. But probably the most interesting feature is that little column we highlighted in red. It's called "Technology Headlines From Around the Web," and it's being labeled a Techmeme killer. ...

Technology news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new feature today, the Techmeme Leaderboard. Up until now Technorati has maintained one of the most useful blog ranking services around. By no means is Technorati's Top 100 an exhaustive list of popular blogs. But by measuring web site "authority" and the number of links other bloggers make to a site, Technorati's list has long been looked to as ...

Did you know that Google has indexed 18,800 pages for Download Squad? To be honest, neither did we. But that's the sort of information you can get from Xinu, a new web stats tracker. Just type a URL into Xinu and sit back while it compiles data from all the usual suspects plus a few unusual ones. You'll get the site's Technorati, Alexa, and Google details. but Xinu also grabs data from Yahoo!, ...

Get badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good: Digg This Story Sphere It Add to Technorati Favorites View Blog Reactions (via Technorati) Add to del.icio.us Add to Furl Add to Netscape Add to Yahoo! Myweb Add to Google Bookmarks ...

Text Link Ads is providing an interesting utility that will allow you to index your blog's importance in some specific categories versus other blogs in the same space, called the Blog Juice Calculator. You can also compare your site's relative importance to the top performers. For example, Download Squad gets a very respectable 8.4 in the Computers / Technology category, which puts us about tied ...

Niall Kennedy, the self-described "feed syndication geek" who left Technorati in April to become a product manager in Microsoft's Windows Live division, this week announced that he's leaving Microsoft to start his own company. Kennedy describes the reason for his leaving Microsoft in a blog post, saying, "Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and ...

Ahh, Technorati, what would we do without you. You are the reason we obsessively tag all our posts, and you dutifully respond to our pings in mere minutes (under 5 according to Technorati Principal Engineer Kevin Marks) to crawl our data. On today, your third birthday, you provide us with even more excitement, in the form of a spiffy re-design and some interesting new features. The new design is ...

Carson Workshops is running a two day conference on the development of technology you will be using tomorrow in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, on September 13-14. This isn't a no name conference either! There will be some big-hitters speaking at the event, including: Kevin Rose from digg Mike Arrington from TechCrunch Mike Davidson from Newsvine Jeff Veen from Google ...

Over at the Technorati Weblog, Tantek Çelik has announced two new products, Microformats Search and Pingerati. In case you're not familiar, microformats are small bits of XML that can be used to describe things like events, product reviews, or contacts in a way that's easily readible by both humans and machines. Technorati's microformats search, which is currently in the "technology ...

Yesterday blog search portal Technorati gained what founder Dave Sifry describes in his blog as "a whole raft of improvements and tweaks." Among them are charts which show blog mentions of your search terms over time, "Scoped Search" which narrows your search results into categories, enhanced profiles, and more. Technorati has made a lot of improvements in recent months in an ...