Tag Archives: technorati

Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…

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 … Continue reading

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Technorati down?

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.

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Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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: my blog … Continue reading

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Top 100 Irish blogs

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 … Continue reading

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Google Blogsearch adds ping

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 … Continue reading

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Do you search the future?

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 … Continue reading

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Brief blog search engine review

I have been trying a number of blog search engines recently. I have subscribed to searches for the same terms in Technorati, Ice Rocket, PubSub and Sphere. Sphere is the newest player on the blog search engine block, only coming … Continue reading

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Any Questions for Niall Kennedy

Niall Kennedy is a well known blogger, a vertical search veteran, a podcaster (with Om Malik) on the Om and Niall podsessions podcast, and a soccer coach! I will be interviewing Niall tomorrow (Fri 21st) in the late afternoon (sorry … Continue reading

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Do you still think blogging is a fad?

I see Dave Sifry (who I interviewed on PodLeaders.com a couple of weeks ago) has published a new quarterly State of the Blogosphere. Dave’s main findings are that the blogosphere is still doubling in size every 6 months – so … Continue reading

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Technorati tag search broken?

I did a couple of tag searches on Technorati this afternoon – but they came up empty – I wasn’t so surprised with one or two of the more obscure ones I tried but when my search for the tag … Continue reading

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