Category Archives: Technorati

Technorati Tags cleans up, adds RSS output

I have only been at Technorati for one day but we already have two new features I am proud to talk about. If you have an API key you can now receive a RSS feed containing the latest weblog posts with a given tag using TagQuery. Our tags page is now more compliant with web standards through the use of lists and emphasis elements. Tantek posted about the decisions behind his changes to the page’s markup. It has been interesting to see all the different uses of tags from companies interested in being included in Technorati’s tags pages. If you…

Technorati Tag API

Technorati opened up their tag API for anyone to query for posts associated with a tag. The query currently only returns Technorati’s own XML. Some other API changes now live: You can choose to not receive claimed weblog data for cosmos and search queries by setting the claim parameter to 0. Search query now has a limit parameter to allow for selective browsing. Cosmos query has a highlight parameter to highlight the anchor text within the excerpt….

Managing the Technorati community

Starting Tuesday, February 1, I will start a new job as Community Manager at Technorati. I will be responsible for helping the world understand Technorati’s service offerings and providing developers with the tools they need to build and extend Technorati. I will help make your voices heard and build new features to strengthen the links we create while consuming and producing content. I am excited to be working with a team of smart and passionate people. Technorati is not the only company competing to be your live search destination and keep you informed of the latest happenings in the areas…

Dear Technorati: Play well with others

This week’s announcements from Technorati have been mixed with endorsements and a message that Technorati may work better with one weblog platform than another. The Technorati tags help file contains an inline advertisement for TypePad. I could understand the use of Flickr and del.icio.us as the current most prominent uses of tags by the online community, but endorsing a weblog hosting company in your help file stinks of paid placement. Adding rel=”tag” to any link should be enough to build a tag library for links off the link text. Technorati instead grabs the last part of the URL after the…

Technorati launches Technorati Tags

Technorati launched Technorati Tags, a new, decentralized method of categorizing posts that also integrates with popular online communities del.icio.us and Flickr. Browse tags The front page displays a sampling of current popular tags sorted by UTF value. A tag’s popularity is expressed through font size: the more popular tags appear larger. Tag page Each tag has a page aggregating photos from Flickr, weblog posts indexed by Technorati, and del.icio.us links. Each page contains ten photographs, twenty posts, and fifteen links. http://www.technorati.com/tag/ + tag of your choice (no spaces) . Join the game of tag How can you be sure your…

Developer contest referral traffic

I have more referral traffic this week from the Technorati Developer’s Contest page than domestic Google and Yahoo! combined! Ranchero has about a third as many referrals as Technorati. Technorati released some new features this week but holding off on the announcement draws more attention to my work. Thanks!…

Technorati site search

Technorati now supports site search as a beta feature. Pass the “from” parameter in your URL string with your desired base URL and you can restrict your search to just those references. Technorati also has a searchlet for home page integration. As an example you can search my weblog for the keyword “technorati.”…

Technorati tags?

Just spotted on Adam Hertz’s blog links to Technorati tag URLs. The syntax is http://www.technorati.com/tag/ + keyword. Adam added a Technorati tag and a contest tag for a recent entry. A sign of things to come from Technorati? Could be a decentralized del.icio.us. Adam is Technorati’s VP of Engineering. A Technorati cosmos search for the base URL shows Adam is the only known source using the tag links. Kevin is playing along too, this time with a subdomain….

Technorati cosmos within NetNewsWire

I wrote an AppleScript for NetNewsWire that allows a user to subscribe to the Technorati cosmos for any individual item within NetNewsWire. Users now have a quick and easy way of staying informed about the latest information related to items of interest from the convenience of NetNewsWire. You do not even have to be online to subscribe to the cosmos! This code is the second AppleScript I have ever written — the first was to export my feeds as OPML and FTP the to my server. I almost did not submit it to the Technorati developers’ contest but I won…