Tag Archive for 'technorati'

Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 23/5/2007
in Blogging, Search Engines and Technology
. 3 Comments

Technorati have overhauled their site completely. Some of the changes are great and some we could do without, frankly!

The best change is that they have drastically sped up the site. I dunno did they add more servers or simply optimise their queries (I suspect the latter) but the site and particularly searches are now running a whole lot faster.

The next great change is that they have moved the blog searches to a page of its own. You can now find blog searches at s.technorati.com. The searches return relevant results and make subscribing to searches a whole lot easier than heretofore.

On the downside, on the main Technorati page they have a scrolling bar of tags along the top - make it stop! I thought we had killed of the Marquee tag people!!!

New Technorati homepage

Overall, the new design seems to be getting the thumbs up from most reviewers. This can only be good as with the rollout of Google’s excellent Blogsearch tool, reasons for using Technorati were becoming fewer and fewer.

Technorati down?

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 30/11/2006
in Search Engines
. 2 Comments

Anyone else having trouble getting in to Technorati today?

My attempts to get in in the last 10 minutes or so are timing out.

UPDATE: It seems to be up again. I wonder what that was all about.

Your top Web 2.0 apps?

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 13/11/2006
in Blogging, Photo Sharing, PodLeaders, Podcast, RSS, Web, Web 2.0, WordPress and office 2.0
. 10 Comments

If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most?

I use:

  1. my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress)
  2. my Flickr account regularly to post photos
  3. Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets frequently for collaboration or sharing of documents
  4. Google’s Calendar to synch with my laptop and mobile phone calendars
  5. Technorati, PubSub and Google’s Blogsearch to subscribe to RSS searches
  6. Flock as my main browser of choice (primarily because of the Flickr and Del.icio.us integration) - I also use Firefox, Camino, Safari and IE7
  7. Feedburner to burn and track my feeds
  8. NetNewsWire, Google Reader and iTunes to consume my feed list
  9. TechMeme, Megite and TailRank for keeping up with tech news
  10. Del.icio.us very occasionally to store URLs for items I have found interesting

What cool Web 2.0 apps am I not using that I should be using? What are your favourite Web 2.0 apps?

Top 100 Irish blogs

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 3/11/2006
in Blogging, Business blogging and Web 2.0
. 0 Comments

Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it.

If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating to track.

Google Blogsearch adds ping

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 9/10/2006
in Blogging, Search Engines and Web 2.0
. 4 Comments

Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service.

This is great - one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on Technorati within minutes.

You can manually ping Google’s Blogsearch here or alternatively you can add the following address to your blog platform to automate the ping (in WordPress add it Options -> Writing -> Update Services)

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

For more see the Google Blog Search ping FAQ

Do you search the future?

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 29/6/2006
in Technology
. 15 Comments

I did a small bit of blog and social media consultancy for Roam4Free yesterday and it still never ceases to amaze me how few people are aware of prospective search.

Prospective searching is the ability to search the future. It is the ability to enter a search term in a search engine and say tell me whenever someone writes about x. The likes of Technorati watchlists make prospective searching really easy to do.

Yesterday, I helped the lads in Roam4Free set up prospective searches for the term Roam4Free (as well as a few other relevant terms) so today this post should have landed in their RSS reader automatically, simply because I mentioned their company name in the post. Hi guys!

If you want to keep on top of what is being said about you, your company, your products, your competitors, their products, and/or your market you should be searching the future.

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