Technorati party on Wednesday

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 RSVP to rsvp@technorati.com if you plan to attend so we can plan accordingly.

Thank you to the House of Shields for providing such a great venue for this event. House of Shields is right across the street from the Palace Hotel and the Supernova conference. The bar was founded in 1908 by an Irishman who liked to collect shields. The bar features ornate wood paneling, bronze statues, and well-portioned drinks. It used to be a speakeasy during prohibition, and it part of the Sharon Building, a San Francisco historical landmark. I am excited to be able to hold a party at this historic venue on Wednesday night and I hope to see you there!

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GoDaddy misstates the facts

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 Technorati Top 100 ranks blogs based on the number of unique inbound sources. Yes, the counts do not update as often as most people would like, but that’s another issue Technorati is working. No keywords or click-throughs influence the Technorati Top 100.

Bob Parsons is actually ranked 5014 on Technorati as of this morning. Maybe there will be another press release when he breaches the top 5000.

The most popular CEO blog — where a CEO is the single author and blogs mostly about his business — belongs to Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek Software.

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Flickr adding ranking algorithms within the next month

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.

Yahoo! acquires blo.gs

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 the service. Many companies offering blog search capabilities have been able to bootstrap using the blo.gs and weblogs.com update stream.

Technorati is sponsoring a trip to BlogHer

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 where most of the cool tech events happen. I realize that somewhere out there in North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, or elsewhere is a woman that would love to come to the Bay Area, meet other bloggers face-to-face and learn new things packed into a day. Technorati helps bring together people of varied interests in the virtual space of the Internet and now Technorati is doing something to enable someone to become a better blogger and meet others of similar interests. It’s exciting and I’m eager to hear the stories bloggers will submit as part of the contest and general chronicling the effect of blogging on their lives.

Tag Tuesday tomorrow at Gordon Biersch in San Francisco

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 have successfully implemented solutions, corrected failures, and are willing to tell their story so we all might learn some best practices.

I hope you can join us tomorrow evening to learn about how tagged content might benefit your communities.

Going to Gnomedex

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 lot more efficient and feature-rich.

I plan to stay in Seattle through Sunday and check out Pike Place Market and the Central Library. I am still looking for a place to stay so if anyone would like to share a room let me know.

Update: Staying at the Warwick. Anyone up for a geek outing on Sunday?

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del.icio.us tags by file type

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:

The tag “system:media:video” includes:

The tag “system:media:image” includes:

The tag “system:media:document” includes:

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