Technorati now allows users to subscribe to a keyword search through a watchlist delivered in RSS format. You could of course do the same thing through the Technorati API through a SearchQuery and setting your format parameter to rss, but this method is a lot easier and finally fills a big hole for Technorati persistent search. Technorati also supports the use of boolean operators such as “AND” and “OR” and “NOT.” Note the operators must be in all capital letters for Technorati’s query analyzer to parse correctly….
Category Archives: Search
Google on 60 Minutes
CBS News will air a segment about Google on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes. John Battelle is a featured commentator….
Feedster contest winners announced
Feedster announced its contest winners today. Two out of three of my picks were correct. Feedster’s contest seemed like a developer relations failure. The submission date and announcement date were moving targets, and when the winners were announced there was no explanation of the tool beyond a link to the author. What are your thoughts? What would you like to see from a developer contest?…
Technorati developer chat
Technorati is hosting a developer chat on IRC this Wednesday night at 7 p.m. San Francisco time (03:00 UTC). If you are working on an entry for the developers contest ending this Friday the chat is a good opportunity to receive live answers to any problems you may have. Join #technorati on irc.freenode.net. I will be in the chat room and try to answer any questions or explain how the site and services work. Any really difficult questions will be left to the Technorati employees to figure out….
Technorati Users Group tonight
Tonight is the first ever meeting of the first Technorati Users Group at 7 p.m. at 21st Amendment in San Francisco. I will give an overview of Technorati and dive into its APIs. We will meet upstairs in the loft area. Everyone in attendance will receive a Technorati Users Group founding member t-shirt. You could also win one of two books. Good beer, good food, and a chance to learn about a service you can use for free. Come on down! I put together some slides to cover the basics of how Technorati works, how you can access their data,…
Technorati moving to a new colo
Technorati’s servers will be down this weekend as they move to a new colocation host. I mirrored the API documentation and SDK if you would like to continue developing without the live servers. Adam is posting pictures from the move on Flickr. [Update: As of 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday servers are back online.] Old compared to new:…
My picks for the Feedster developers contest
The Feedster developers contest is over and developers are waiting for the winners to be announced. You can view all of the entries on the Feedster submission form. What do you think about the contest submissions automatically being posted on Feedster for all to see? Good idea or bad idea? I went through the entire list of submitted Feedster hacks, removed the garbage entries seeking free linky love, and was able to put together my own list of winners while we wait for the official results. Best use of Feedster in a standalone RSS aggregator David Watanabe added Feedster search…
Technorati Users Group meeting December 21
Come drink beer and learn more about the Technorati API next Tuesday, December 21, at 7 p.m. at 21st Amendment in San Francisco. I will introduce Technorati API calls, demonstrate some existing applications built using the APIs, and lead you through some sample code using XPath and Java. A few Technorati employees will stop by and provide updates on the developer program and provide the latest company news. If you are interested in learning more about live search, web services, or corporate intelligence this event is for you! The Technorati developer contest ends December 31 so this will be a…
Search wars
Charles Ferguson has a lengthy analysis of Google and Microsoft in the January edition of MIT Technology Review and how the search wars might play out over the next few years. Will Microsoft crush Google like it crushed Netscape? Ferguson bets on open standards and APIs as Google’s saving grace, creating a lock-in of tools and services. Winning architectures are proprietary and difficult to clone, but they are also externally “open”—that is, they provide publicly accessible interfaces upon which a wide variety of applications can be constructed by independent vendors and users. In this way, an architecture reaches all markets,…
PubSub LinkRank detail
PubSub has had LinkRanks for a while, but yesterday BoingBoing linked to a detail page not listed in the PubSub site links. PubSub displays a line chart of incoming links to the specified domain over the last thirty days and inbound links in the past ten days. Only one double listing in my results, a TypePad weblog with a separate domain. The chart is presented in Flash, making copy and pasting much more difficult. PubSub should learn from Alexa and make their images easy to add to other content. Think PowerPoint slides. PubSub is experimenting with NewsML for entry tracking…