Company: Technorati (Public Beta Redesign)
What is it?
Technorati is Web 2.0 “old school”: one of the original (and best) real-time search engines. It requested customer feedback and has used it to launch an extensive redesign of their site as a public beta. The original site is still up at www.technorati.com and the beta, for now, is at beta.technorati.com. Technorati claims to be indexing 800,000 + new posts daily, which is in line with competitor estimates of the size of the blogosphere.
Technorati helped to increase the popularity of leveraging blog site metadata by allowing tag (or category) searches in their engine. By searching via tags, users can find content specifically tagged by the publisher (for now) under certain categories.
The Technorati 100 is the definitive list of popular bloggers on the web.
The new UI has several key upgrades:
- Simplified Interface
- RSS feeds for tag searches
- Tag searches return indexed results plus flickr, furl, delicious, and buzznet
- More homepage personalization – including watchlists, claimed blogs and profile information
- New Watchlist functionality
Screen Shots:
David L. Sifry -Founder and CEO
Adam Hertz – Vice President of Engineering
Joi Ito -Vice President of International Business and Mobile Devices
Teresa Malo – Chief Financial Officer
Richard Ault – Director of Product Marketing
Liz Westover – Director of Developer Relations
Tantek Çelik – Senior Technologist
David L. Sifry
Kim Polese
Andreas Stavropoulous
Ryan McIntyre
Dan Beldy
Relevant Links:
About Technorati
Press
Dave Sifry (founder and CEO of Technorati) blog post on the beta release
Techcrunch,
congrats on 5 months
can you please tell me know Technorati’s business model allows them to have the number of employees that they do have?
how are they making enough money?
what are their revenue sources?
I just don’t get how many of these web 2.0 companies make their cash
Go ahead and spank me for being so late.
I love technorati, it boosts visitor traffic to my sites when I submit there, although it’s not seo friendly.
asdsad
Hmmm… Looks like I’m a little bit late here…
Is this TechCrunch’s first ever post?
whoa. technorati was 1st post ever? no…
thnx
is this techcrunchs first post ?
i do remember that post. it seems so incredible long ago …
This isn’t TechCrunch’s first post – I think they’ve removed all the inconsiderate posts that aren’t good.
Remember, this is an archive of coverage, not announcements. Like, you wouldn’t find archives of posts concerning “new writers” at TechCrunch etc.
i think this is first post of techcrunch …great journey…….by its founder
Happy 4th Birthday TC…
FIRST! er, wait. Happy Birthday TC!
Grats TC… I certainly remember this post
Happy 4th Birthday, TechCrunch! Fantastic journey, Mike… I still remember when we played golf on an arcade machine in summer 2004 in downtown Palo Alto with you, Keith and Thomas. That was the time before TC. Time flies.
Mike-
Love the spirit– happy birthday techcrunch– tomorrow you will be closer to 8 than birth.
Warmest.
Jb.
Happy b’day! Great Job keep doing ..
Wow, Techcrunch turns 4, ummm lets party. Congrats to the entire Tech crunch Team from Biotecnika
4 years has never seemed so long.