Two years ago Dave Sifry announced Technorati: a new site with a set of web services he always wanted and spent three weekends hacking. Take a look at the Technorati of two years ago.
Unofficial history of Technorati
- November 20, 2002
- Official first use date.
- November 27, 2002
- Technorati officially unveiled. 12,000 weblogs indexed.
- December 4, 2002
- RSS watchlists.
- December 15, 2002
- First Technorati dinner.
- December 18, 2002
- Technorati sidebar.
- February 7, 2003
- Site contents released under Creative Commons license.
- February 26, 2003
- First major downtime: 4 hours.
- March 5, 2003
- 100,000 weblogs indexed.
- March 9, 2003
- Revenues of $2,000 over three months from charging a yearly subscription of $5 for an e-mail watchlist and $10 for a RSS watchlist.
- March 21, 2003
- Current events launches.
- April 6, 2003
- 200,000 weblogs indexed.
- May 8, 2003
- Google hints at blog-specific search tool.
- May 12, 2003
- Technorati API released for cosmos, bloginfo, and outbound blogs.
- June 9, 2003
- Technorati keyword search launches.
- June 21, 2003
- 300,000 weblogs indexed.
- July 05, 2003
- Technorati pinger launched.
- September 27, 2003
- 1 million weblogs indexed.
- February 4, 2004
- First hiring post.
- March 22, 2004
- Three free watchlists. BookTalk launches.
- March 30, 2004
- 2 million weblogs indexed.
- May 19, 2004
- First Technorati Developers Salon.
- June 24, 2004
- Keyword advertising launches, powered by FindWhat.
- July 7, 2004
- 3 million weblogs tracked.
- July 21, 2004
- CNN announces partnership with Technorati for the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
- July 26, 2004
- Politics subdomain launched.
- August 23, 2004
- $6.5 million venture capital funding at a valuation of about $12 million.
- August 27, 2004
- CNN announced partnership with Technorati for the Republican National Convention in New York.
- August 31, 2004
- Technorati pinger integrated into Movable Type.
- September 26, 2004
- Colocation center electrical fire followed by a weekend of down time.
- October 6, 2004
- First Technorati Hackathon.
- October 10, 2004
- 4 million weblogs indexed.
- October 21, 2004
- Technorati open house at their new offices @ 665 Third Street in San Francisco.
- November 5, 2004
- Advanced search capabilities, top 20 MP3s. Developer program launched.
- November 11, 2004
- Technorati search and post cosmos featured in Blogware default templates.