Technorati has updated their design and added new features, as they celebrate their third birthday. See a post by CEO Dave Sifry on the Technorati blog for more.
Thumbs up across the board on this one. The design is much better and easier to read than its year-old predecessor.
The new features, though, are where the action is. In particular, the new “Discover” area of the site is an excellent way to take the pulse of the blogosphere on any given topic, inlcuding news, technology, sports, business and life. This feature is clearly aimed at trying to recreate some of the success that Techmeme has had in becoming the “newpaper for the blogosphere” and is much better than previous Technorati efforts. Product Manager Liz Dunn will be releasing more details on Discover later this week.
There are other notable changes as well, including updates to the Favorites section and the Popular section (with more emphasis on user favorites over the pure link count of the Technorati Top 100 list).
Happy Birthday Technorati, and congratulations on the relaunch and your recent new round of financing.
Comments
The design looks very nice. I will have to play around more to digest all the updates.
It is so beautiful that they make me want to cry. Although I am still slightly pissed with the dramatic fall I’ve endured in the Technorati rankings during the past few months. (I lost 40+ links? Hooooow?)
WOW…the new look is amazing! Cheers to those guys for sure as that’s one of the best “new designs” I’ve seen a while.
Chris
switchdiscs.com
I agree… very nice update. I hated the old look.
Wow.
wow wow wow.
It actually looks useful now.
That’s great, the new design looks good… now I wish they would fix their service so it would accept wordpress 2.0 pings…
Everyone must be commenting on some other web site rather than what is pictured in the screenshot. I’ll concede some of the new features are a welcome improvement, but they’re unfortunately overshadowed by the appauling design.
The gaudy color scheme is a slap in the face as soon as you visit. I’m stumped as to why anyone would ever think these would be good choices. It’s unfortunate you have to dig into the second-level pages into order to find a more reasonable green/blue/grey scheme.
I was also disappointed to find the three “buttons” they’ve added at the left are not buttons at all. As the only part that is clickable are the icons and text, that leaves nearly half of their width non-functional. As of this writing, the “Claim my blog” link didn’t work at all.
All in all, the features are a move in the right direction while the questionable design leaves a lot to be desired.
I’m in Ryan’s camp as well. The frontpage is a rainbow. I thought I accidentally landed on http://skittles.com
Looks better now, I wonder how much better their service will get.
I’m with Ryan and Paul, there new design was about 37 steps backwards. Nothing feels together. It just seems so disorganized. And Pauls reference to skittles is right on.
The unclaimable blog error is still there! Technorati shmecnorati!
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