Technorati announced that it has acquired El Segundo, California-based self-serve advertising network AdEngage in an all-stock transaction, the details of which have not been disclosed. This comes about two months after Technorati’s acquisition of BlogCritics.
Technorati Releases State of the Blogosphere
It’s kind of astonishing how swiftly society can shift these days. In 2005, when I started covering this industry, the guys at the local pub would look over the tops of their sports sections with blank or puzzled faces if you uttered the word “blog.”
Technorati – Bullies, Struggles
Technorati has had its ups and downs, as have we all. In August, their then-CEO Dave Sifry stepped down, leaving the position vacant. Last week, they finally replaced him with new CEO & President, Richard Jalichandra. He comes with a ringing endorsement from Sifry, who is still head of Technorati’s board of directors.
Claiming Your StumbleUpon Blog through Technorati
Here’s an interesting tip that you probably haven’t thought of yet. In fact, this will increase the number of links to your StumbleUpon blog, and will automatically increase the “link juice” to every page that you add, review, or “Stumble” using the StumbleUpon service.
Tuesday? New Technorati Strategy
As you can read in a number of different places this morning, Technorati — the ailing blog-search engine that recently lost its CEO, Dave Sifry — has come out with a new offering known as Technorati Topics, which appears to be a scrolling list of blogosphere posts chosen by the team at Technorati, based on a bunch of criteria that we aren’t really told a lot about.
Technorati Adds Topics
Technorati has just added a new feature called topics, I was very excited to hear this because as you know i’ve written a couple of articles begging Technorati to get back to it’s roots of building tools for bloggers (see Can Bloggers Save Technorati). Unfortunately my excitement was short lived, and I’m beginning to feel like a long suffering technorati user.
Technorati Touts Topics
A new feature from blog search site Technorati offers a Fark-like tabbed organization of topics as relevant posts arrive.
Why Everyone Hates To Love Technorati But Still Does
For all of the criticism about Technorati’s inconsistent ranking figures or recent team changes, the one thing the site has intuitively understood from the beginning is the inherent desire for bloggers to be ranked.
Technorati CEO Stepping Down
Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, announced today on the Technorati blog that he’s stepping down from his post. He states:
29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never Hit Digg Home Page
I heard about this story from Glen yesterday about his extensive research into the correlation between the Technorati 100 and Digg home page stories.