Is Technorati Broken?

June 19th, 2006 My blog is worth $261,946.56.How much is your blog worth? This evaluation was done using Technorati data and Tristan's research on Weblogs Inc. deal. The key premise is: "Many in the blogosphere say that traffic is not a good measure of what blogs are but that conversation, as represented by links and indexes like Technorati, represent a more accurate view of the value of a blog." Would I be willing to sell this blog at this price? Sure..

July 14th, 2006 Technorati raised $7.6 million in its third round (Series C) funding, according to SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire. The funding is from return backers like DFJ and Mobius Venture Capital.

March 1st, 2008 We are making extensive changes on all our sites, so we expect few links to be broken here and there. Please let us know if you find any broken links or any feature non-functional.

September 25th, 2007 Who tags ringtone or ringtones? ... sploggers, who else? Ringtone and ringtones are two of the most popular tags on technorati and displayed on its front page.

August 13th, 2005 I used Bloglet for allowing email subscription option to my blogs. However for the past week or more bloglet is broken.

May 16th, 2005 An analysis of growth pattern of top weblogs.

February 16th, 2004 Few Gripes on Java.blogs: After few days with java.blogs I realized I don't want a few things. For example I am not interested in knowing anything about IDEA releases.

August 30th, 2007 For 75$ a blogspot blogger hopes to increase his blog readership. Guess where he is looking for help.

June 9th, 2008 Thunderbird doesn't provide an in-built way to export and save emails & attachments in bulk. Unfortunately the forwarding emails as attachment functionality is broken on the receiving end (Thunderbird email client).

February 15th, 2004 Often the popular listings of javablogs appeared suspect to me as many times I could see the same listings on top for days, whereas newer listings with higher view count didn't make the list. However it was just a feeling from reading entries from both start page and most popular page.

September 28th, 2007 Just copy-n-paste the following word list to Comment Blacklist section in Options->Discussion (in WordPress administration) for protection against the most common types of medical / drug related comment spams. The list was derived by analyzing hundreds of thousands of spams.

March 18th, 2005 Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now.

March 26th, 2005 I use WordPress to maintain this site. After upgrading to version 1.5 I was left with a theme which doesn't do much of what I want to do with my site.

March 18th, 2005 Coverage of posts and websites of interest participating in the nofollow debate.

March 9th, 2009 Technology is not all about seriously drooling over the intelligent machine and behave like a nerd always. Here are some simple things which can turn your head around and put you to shame for your ignorance.