Posts Tagged with ‘technorati’

As a newly launched directory of blogs, Blogged.com is aiming to not only provide visitors with links to thousands of interesting blogs, but to be a “blog discovery and exploration tool supported by a network that connects bloggers with readers.” Having just publicly launched two days ago (February 25, 2008) the database of more than 200,000 blogs of various categories is already impressive in size.
Where most blog search tools use tags and keywords to find individual posts within blogs, Blogged [...]

It’s hard out there for…a Saudi Arabian blogger.
The headlines on Technorati are many today. It’s now been made officially clear by the Saudi Interior Ministry that a widely-regarded Arabian noisemaker, Fouah al-Farhan, was recently “taken in” for questioning “about specific violations of non-security laws.”
Mr al-Farhan covers, among other items, the subject of social issues in his blog. Yes, quite a basic and broad template upon which to write one’s thoughts. Plenty of fine lines to walk in that area [...]

I am not a cell phone guru, but if you don't have an iPhone (or even if you do) - Rocekshotz is a cool service that can help you approximate one for free. Rocketshotz sets up a user's favorite mobile sites and transfers them to their phone in an “iPhone-like start page”. The Atlanta company started as a pet project to bring PC capability to the developer's cell. Rocketshotz is a cool tool for on-the-go users that reduces the needless [...]

I tested a cool new beta application called Animoto yesterday that could very well be the end of slideshows as we know them. I always wanted to create something artistic with my images and Animato has provided an easy tool for rendering striking video montages. Users can upload images from their PC or popular hosting sites and select audio from disc or stock offerings. Everything on the Web should be this easy and unique.
Animoto was built with Ruby on [...]

Ever wanted to get a kind of ballpark figure of what the top blogs on the Net take in, financially speaking? We all know they’re popular as heck, and that the more eyes visiting their pages generally means more revenue. But just how much are we talking about?
An estimate gathered for a study using resources of both the University of Texas and the relatively well-known blog ad network Chitika, pegs the number at $500 million total revenue for the top [...]

There’s a lesson to be learned from the incident – one that was felt ‘round the world – that occurred in San Francisco on July 24th: Drunks can be dangerous.
Actually, there’s no real hard evidence that a data center employee, supposedly under the influence, who, according to Valleyway, was said to have turned maniacal, was responsible for taking down many popular sites on the Web, because, well, frankly much of the San Francisco as a whole experienced downtime. But, you [...]

Spring is the season of rebirth and revival, which many companies with homes on the Internet have taken to heart. One such website, which just a day or two ago reemerged onto the scene with a fresh coat of paint, is Technorati, a well kept index of blogs, videos, and music. And I must say, the new incarnation is far more attractive.
There’s nothing miraculous about Technorati. The site tracks what’s new and what’s popular in Web 2.0, and sorts it [...]

Social bookmarking has only come to be utilized to a large degree in recent years. The first service to really popularize the practice is often thought to be Del.icio.us. Regardless of which came first, who copied whom, and what really constitutes a social bookmarking service, it?s occasionally a topic of interest what site stands where on the list of the largest. For those who wish to know, eBizMBA has laid out a tally of the top 20.
It probably comes [...]

Meet one of the faces of the real Web 2.0, open source community! Swik, the SourceLabs project has put on a new dinner jacket and is ready to tango.
I was surfing for news when I ran across an article on Techmambo about Swik. Ironically, a good friend IM'd my yesterday about Swik's latest project to offer users the ability to submit stories (ala Digg and Netscape) and to tag and vote on those stories. This is not another story about a startup, but [...]