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
Official first use date.
Technorati officially unveiled. 12,000 weblogs indexed.
RSS watchlists.
First Technorati dinner.
Technorati sidebar.
Site contents released under Creative Commons license.
First major downtime: 4 hours.
100,000 weblogs indexed.
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.
Current events launches.
200,000 weblogs indexed.
May 8, 2003
Google hints at blog-specific search tool.
Technorati API released for cosmos, bloginfo, and outbound blogs.
Technorati keyword search launches.
300,000 weblogs indexed.
Technorati pinger launched.
1 million weblogs indexed.
First hiring post.
Three free watchlists. BookTalk launches.
2 million weblogs indexed.
First Technorati Developers Salon.
Keyword advertising launches, powered by FindWhat.
3 million weblogs tracked.
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.
CNN announced partnership with Technorati for the Republican National Convention in New York.
August 31, 2004
Technorati pinger integrated into Movable Type.
Colocation center electrical fire followed by a weekend of down time.
First Technorati Hackathon.
4 million weblogs indexed.
Technorati open house at their new offices @ 665 Third Street in San Francisco.
Advanced search capabilities, top 20 MP3s. Developer program launched.
Technorati search and post cosmos featured in Blogware default templates.