Technorati is an Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web for searching blogs A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing Web indexing includes back-of-book-style indexes to individual websites or an intranet, and the creation of keyword metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite search engines. With the increase in the number of periodicals that have articles online, web indexing is also becoming important for periodical websites 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization. The word technology comes from the Greek technología — téchnē (τέχνη), an 'art', 'skill' or 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline. The term can either be applied generally and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry Dave Sifry is an American software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known most recently for founding Technorati, a leading blog search engine. He also lectures widely on wireless technology and policy, weblogs, and open source software and its headquarters Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. The corporate headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities. In the UK, the term 'head office' is most commonly used for the HQs of large corporations are in San Francisco The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the, California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most, USA ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language. Tantek Çelik Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent[citation needed] and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati[citation needed]. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications was the site's Chief Technologist.
Technorati uses and contributes to open source Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source software. Technorati has an active software developer A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process. They can be involved in aspects wider than design and coding, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing including some aspects of software product management. This person may contribute to the community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare Levanta was a company based in San Mateo, California, United States, that created products for Linux management and data virtualization and later of Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance that manufacturers may use to brand certified products that belong to a class of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards, which is by far the most widespread WLAN class today. Because of the close relationship with its underlying standards, the term Wi-Fi is often access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editorial rights to remove material that is considered "off topic." Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. In contrast, open purpose wikis accept content without firm rules as to how the content should be organized, where developers and contributors collaborate, also various open APIs An application programming interface is an interface implemented by a software program which enables it to interact with other software. It facilitates interaction between different software programs similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. An API is implemented by applications, libraries, and.
The site won the SXSW South by Southwest is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center. Each of the three parts runs relatively independently, with different start and end dates 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.[3] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby Award A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. As of October 2009 and Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by.[4] In 2010, Technorati was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Companies” by Lead411.[5]
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Technology
Technorati looks at tags In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first[citation needed].
Technorati rates each blog's "authority", the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months.
Reception
In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions" postings, which then claimed to track 27.7 million blogs, did not take into account MySpace MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, News Corp. Digital Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken blogs, of which she said that there were 56 million. As a result, she said that the utility of Technorati as a gauge of blog popularity was questionable.[6] However, by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace blogs.[7]
In May 2006, Technorati teamed up with the PR agency Edelman Edelman is a global public relations firm with consumer, finance, healthcare, technology and industrial practices. It employs over 3,100 people in 51 offices around the globe. Edelman was founded in 1952 by Daniel J. Edelman and is today led by his son President & CEO Richard Edelman. The firm is known for remaining private, despite an. The deal earned a lot of criticism, both on principle and as a result of Edelman's 2006 fake blog A fake blog is an electronic communication form that appears to originate from a credible, non-biased source, but which in fact is created by a company or organization for the purpose of marketing a product, service, or political viewpoint. The purpose of a fake blog is to inspire viral marketing or create an internet meme that generates traffic scandals. Edelman and Technorati officially ended the deal in December 2006. That month, Oliver Reichenstein pointed out that the so called "State of the Blogosphere" was more of a PR-tool and money maker for Edelman and Technorati than a reliable source, explaining in particular a) why Technorati/Edelman's claim that "31% of the blogs are written in Japanese" was "bogus" and b) where the financial profit for the involved parties was in this.[8]
In May 2007, Andrew Orlowski Andrew Orlowski is a British columnist for the online IT newspaper The Register writing for the tech tabloid A Tech tabloid is a type of news media that mainly concentrates on technology news: science, IT, semiconductors, telecoms and related issues, but also takes on a less formal and more humorous approach than traditional technology publications such as EE Times or EDN. They are professional in nature, though, rather than community-based technology The Register The Register is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service. Mike Magee left The Register in 2001 to start The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and then TechEye criticized Technorati's May 2007 redesign. He suggests that Technorati has decided to focus more on returning image thumbnails rather than blog results. He also claims that Technorati never quite worked correctly in the past and that the alleged refocus is "a tacit admission that it's given up on its original mission".[9]
In 2009, Technorati decided to stop indexing blogs and sites in languages other than English in order to focus only on the English Blogosphere. As a result, thousands of sites in various languages are no longer rated by the Technorati service.[10]
References
- ^ David Sifry (November 27, 2002). "Technorati". Sifry's Alerts. http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000095.html. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ "Welcome to Technorati". today. http://technorati.com/about. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ "Web Awards Winners". south by southwest festivals + conferences. 2006. http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ "2006 webby nominees: 10th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners". Webby Awards. 2006. http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10#best_practices. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards
- ^ Debi Jones (February 16, 2006). "The Site that Ate the Blogosphere". MobileJones.com. http://www.blogher.com/node/2509. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
- ^ Aaron Brazell (March 31, 2006). "Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs". Technosailor. http://technosailor.com/technorati-indexing-myspace-blogs/. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
- ^ Oliver Reichenstein (December 13, 2006). "Technorati: Big business with bogus data". Information Architects Japan. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/bogus-technoratiedelman-statistics. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ^ Andrew Orlowski (May 25, 2007). "Technorati knocks itself out. Again". theregister.co.uk. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/technorati_retreats/. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ Dario de Judicibus (January 21, 2010). "Technorati: the War of Languages". L'Indipendente. http://lindipendente.splinder.com/post/22086553/Technorati%3A+the+War+of+Languag. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
External links
- Technorati Home Page
- Technorati's own blog
- Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above
- Giga OM's entry on the end of the Technorati-Edelman deal
- Technorati's 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report
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