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By: Twittorati Will Show You How Awesomely Fascinating Bloggers’ Lives Are (Or Not) | Stoth

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:41:36 +0000

[...] 10 percent of its staff, or 4 employees, and also suffered through an earlier round of layoffs last September and implemented pay cuts for remaining staff. Despite these setbacks, Jalichandra remains [...]

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By: Technorati Lays Off Another 10 Percent Of Employees

Technorati Lays Off Another 10 Percent Of Employees — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:29:15 +0000

[...] profitability. The reduction will leave the company with 37 employees. Technorati suffered an earlier round of layoffs last September, letting go 6 people and also implemented pay cuts for remaining staff. [...]

By: frankps » Trends of 2009

frankps » Trends of 2009 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:54:05 +0000

[...] to use, will perhaps be easier. I even had an evil smile around my mouth when reading about Technorati downsizing, but had close to a tear in my eyes when reading that Last.fm had to do the [...]

By: alexis

alexis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:03:57 +0000

Lots of layoffs everywhere. Walmart doing well so and salesplanet.ws

By: Technorati Monster a Casualty of Layoffs? | CloudAve

Technorati Monster a Casualty of Layoffs? | CloudAve — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:07:26 +0000

[...] again, all I got was this boring message:Perhaps the Monster became a casualty in the most recent round of layoffs? Posted Under : General Tags blogging outage blogosphere monster technorati Share this [...]

By: You seem confused

You seem confused — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:49:32 +0000

Doesn’t seem like they’re mixing widget displays into their numbers…and you seem to be missing the point on what a web property is.

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inspiron 6000 battery — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:59:25 +0000

The layoffs come just over a month after Technorati acquired ad network AdEngage for an undisclosed amount.

I remember meeting with some high up there for lunch 3 years ago

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:11:56 +0000

Do you think the traffic numbers for Google or Yahoo properties should be inflated by the numbers of advertising impressions they have on other sites?

You wouldn’t really want widget displays to be mixed in with the traffic trends of Blogcatalog, Mybloglog, Friendfeed, Sezwho, Intense Debate, Disqus, JSKit and a host of others… that is a different stat about their reach and distribution, possibly relevant in some cases but certainly something that is best with a seperate analysis.

By: bb

bb — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:25:06 +0000

Richard took a $500k signing bonus to take this job. Perhaps he should look at and provide a critic of the decisions he made and not blame layoffs on the “economy”. That 500k could keep these people employed.

By: Technorati Cutting Down on Expenses - Lays Off 6, Pay Cuts for the rest | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:43:34 +0000

[...] announcement on Technorati’s blog. About the lay off Technorati’s CEO Richard Jalichandra states: “high performers who have worked long hours to get us where we are now. They’re also friends, [...]

By: Jumpin' Jehosephat

Jumpin' Jehosephat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:27:07 +0000

Technorati is not relevant because they are a mess. They ping sites they “track” at completely random frequencies and often forget about them until their bloggers ping them a bunch of times. Their ranking system is garbage. Their numbers are inflated into the stratosphere by dead blogs they won’t pull from their rolls. Their assessments of the state of the blogosphere are a joke. Their ad network sucks donkey balls. What more do you need? They are irrelevant.

By: voip

voip — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:21:49 +0000

Well, what you expect them to say? “They are non performers and we should have let them go a long time ago”? Come on guys, allow some diplomacy in a corporate statement, – or don’t take what they say seriously.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:12:51 +0000

[...] declining. Google stock has been given a SELL rating, ebay is loosing visitors by the million and Technorati lays off six “high performers” and cuts pay for the rest by at least [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:53:01 +0000

This company I don’t understand. I use Digg or add to Facebook instead.
Once I wanted to add Technorati to my site and I couldn’t find a button.

By: Google SEO Tools

Google SEO Tools — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:23:01 +0000

Technorati has been having all sorts of problems. I've been trying to add my blog (Google SEO Tools) for weeks and haven't gotten any support from them...

By: Ole

Ole — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:39:22 +0000

“Lay off high performers”… always sounds like a really good thing to me. Keep the B players and cut the A players. I wish people could be honest. Just once. News like this make this industry look bad.

By: Makes_Sense

Makes_Sense — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:35:24 +0000

Wait, Andy, since when did a blog ad network, search portal and self-service ad platform specifically for bloggers not count as a ‘top blog property?’

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:25:44 +0000

Tom, it is definitely hard to understand what you mean by absence of good ads as ads served by Technorati on their own sites and on sites in their ad network Technorati Media (I know as I run one of the blogs in the network) depend very much on where you personally are but to US users they invariably serve banners from premium brands and even outside of the US they work with some important brands. Many of the blogs in the network have Adsense as default banners for when there is no banner from an advertiser in the network and I can tell you that even trying to compare revenue from AdSense to that generated by CPM advertisers is nonsense as AdSense pays virtually nothing.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:53 +0000

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By: Marvin

Marvin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:46:08 +0000

I have this wierd idea of seeking ideas & democratic feedback from people/employees during the tough times…the tool can be employed by CEO’s to really defend the company’s interest without cutting on talent in a merciless way…or with some shitty MBA theory behind it.

You may find a group of employees who will be ready to work for free for these times….so why is there a need to axe people?

See my product called YouSuggest on website: http://www.latticepurple.com … I do not want to spam this place with advertisement of my company or the product… So please delete the content if it crosses you guys in any way…

By: Dez

Dez — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:01:43 +0000

“high performers who have worked long hours to get us where we are now.”

I really hate this. It’s a bunch of crap. What you really meant was the Highest Paid!! Obviously, if they were there the longest, that means they have also increased in salary over the years.
I tell you all again, any start-up, or any tech company that lays off during these economic times will be doomed to more failure. Companies should be going lean, but not cutting there people. They need to be Innovating, dropping their prices for their products & services & building relationships with their customers.

By: i_see_laid_off_people

i_see_laid_off_people — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:57:22 +0000

I remember meeting with some high up there for lunch 3 years ago, and asked him (being the turd in the punchbowl that I am) if the runup in the new .com ‘web 2.0′ blah blah blah sites would lead to .bomb 2.0

He was a little pissed at me for bringing that up. My timing is always off by a couple years.

By: Boris Epstein

Boris Epstein — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:21:25 +0000

although surviving in this economic environment is no picnic for anybody, im glad to see technorati explore the happy medium of cutting salaries instead of letting even more people go. im surprised more companies aren’t taking similar measures to retain what would otherwise be good people leaving their company.

boris
http://www.thewebwar.com

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:12:40 +0000

I don’t care if they’re relevant or not, but I wish to god at least one silly valley ceo would cut the BS when announcing layoffs. Seriously, how hard is it to say: “We’re not making enough money to pay everyone, sorry.”

Instead, we get a bunch of hubris about the economy sucking (yes, it is, but that’s not entirely responsible for your predicament), how great these employees are (FYI, great employees have an ROI that is a multiple of their salary, so these people may be nie, but that doesn’tmean they’re great), and what a bright future the company still has (riiight…because you’ve got EYEBALLS? That’s a benchmark that shoulda been tossed out with the first bust).