Technorati two years later
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 — Really Simple Syndication (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 Application Program Interface (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.