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ok, another wonderful day in paradise. the Massachusetts weather is fine today--cool, clear, bright. Nice contrast from the past few days of muggy humid bad-air-day delights. note to investors: the squeeze is starting on Technorati, and will be interesting to watch. Yahoo has launched a Technorati-killer. What was/is good about technorati? OPEN link analysis, in contrast to Google's "page rank" closed link analysis. OK, Google's page rank system is a bit more than link analysis, but not much. The main difference is that with Google you can't traverse the page rank network model of your own or other sites. With Technorati you can. We have made great use of this feature in organizing for Sudan on http://passionofthepresent.org where for many months we attempted to personally contact everyone who linked to us--by commenting, writing or telephoning or im. And we used Technorati every day. Lately Technorati has been trying to sell its data to corporate marketers. Not sure this is a winning idea. I guess I we need to credit Hummer Winblad, the major institutional vc in Technorati, with pressing Technorati for a better business model, but I don't actually think Technorati has much to sell to marketers. I'd like to see Technorati refocus on serving "the community"--such as Passion of the Present and the like, and other small creators of content. I'd like to see an expansion of the "open" side of Technorati, rather than closed mining of the data for corporate clients. and of course, the real vulnerability of Technorati seems to be its technology platform. Someone should run a demon against it and check its uptime and performance. Anecdotally, it sure seems to be misfiring alot, though I have no info on how much, and on whether the problems are getting better or worse. Now that I think of it, it would be nice if sites self-reported their issues and quality of service levels. In the current environment, less-than-perfect would be ok. Progress would be good. |
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