Posts from June 2005

Technorati is having a party! We're preparing for a busy week and a few product launches and we want to bring the community together to learn face-to-face what's new and exciting and to gather your feedback. We will also have a few announcements so if you are a blogger in search of a scoop this will be an extra fun party. The party will be held at the House of Sheids on Wednesday, June 22, from 6:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. or until whenever everyone decides to leave. Technorati will provide some food and a no-host bar. Please send an...

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Some companies love to issue press releases for every little thing. Go Daddy is one of those companies. Hot on the heels of their press release about their blog's six-month anniversary comes a press release claiming Bob Parsons has the 23rd most popular blog and the most popular CEO blog. Too bad they provide no fact to support either claim. Technorati ranks blogs according to the most "click-throughs" on commonly-searched keywords. http://www.bobparsons.com covers a variety of topics, many of which do not contain such keywords; for that reason, Parsons' blog is not listed in the Top 100. Not true. The...

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Stewart Butterfield announced a new Flickr feature at tonight's Tag Tuesday event. In the next few weeks Flickr will introduce the ability to algorithmically sort photographs using criteria such as the most commented posts, the most popular photo publishers, and the structure of a user's social network. The new ranking system will allow for the most active pictures surrounding an event to rise to the top of the pile instead of treating an entire tagspace as a chronological flow.Tags: flickr...

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Jim Winstead just announced Yahoo! has purchased blo.gs. The cloud interface will still be available for general use. What does this mean? Yahoo! now has a ping beacon that is already built-in to most weblog software as well as a database of blog posts from the past few years. The cloud technology allows Yahoo! to easily share content update notifications inside and outside the firewall, allowing for easy sharing between blo.gs and Yahoo! Search for example. Jim originally planned on pulling the cloud interface offline at the end of last year and it is good to see the continuation of...

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I saw this poster produced by the Royal Typewriter Company during World War II in the United States and I think it's a good female blogging poster as everyone has something interesting to say. Keep 'em flying, Miss U.S.A.Tags: wwii...

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Blo.gs is currently down, indicating an announcement is imminent. Whois records show Jim Winstead is still the domain contact and resource, but Jim previously announced the domain and its assets would change hands on or after Monday, June 13.Tags: blo.gs...

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Dave Sifry just announced Technorati's contest to send a blogger to BlogHer, a conference focused on women bloggers taking place in Santa Clara on July 30. Technorati has thought about the best way to support the conference and the bloggers we serve. I thought about some of the different classes of bloggers out there and how each might benefit from attending the conference. I talked with the conference organizers to get a better idea of their vision and what they hope to accomplish. I am very lucky to live in the Bay Area at the center of technology world and...

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Technorati and Flickr are co-hosting a gathering of tag implementors and other interesting people tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. at Gordon Biersch in San Francisco. We are calling the event Tag Tuesday and hope this will be the first of many meetings about tags as a freeform organizational tool. Kevin Marks of Technorati and Stewart Butterfield of Flickr will each have small presentations followed by a discussion. Technorati often receives questions from other organizations about the best way to implement tags within their blog, software, or project. I think the best way to learn is in-person and from people that...

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In less than two weeks I will be in Seattle at Gnomedex. I attended Gnomedex back when it was in Des Moines and had a lot of fun. As a former sexiest geek finalist -- I lost to a Lockergnome employee -- I just have to represent. I'm looking forward to the latest version of the conference in the most unwired city in America. Gnomedex will have a very large RSS presence this year with all the major aggregators attending and new aggregators being introduced at the conference so we can all geek out and make people's reading habits a...

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Del.icio.us now allows users to browse tags by media types such as MP3 files or MPEG movies. RSS feeds now include enclosures for easy media subscription. The tag "system:media:audio" includes: *.mp3 as "system:filetype:mp3" *.wav as "system:filetype:wav" The tag "system:media:video" includes: *.mpg as "system:filetype:mpg" *.mpeg as "system:filetype:mpeg" *.avi as "system:filetype:avi" *.wmv as "system:filetype:wmv" *.mov as "system:filetype:mov" The tag "system:media:image" includes: *.jpg as "system:filetype:jpg" *.jpeg as "system:filetype:jpeg" *.gif as "system:filetype:gif" *.png as "system:filetype:png" The tag "system:media:document" includes: *.pdf as "system:filetype:pdf" *.doc as "system:filetype:doc"Tags: delicious, tagging...

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