The Iron Man cometh

/film has a video clip of Tony Stark testing his flight controls. Pretty sweet. Should be a summer of good flicks, but I'm pyched about this one. I've always been an Iron Man fan.

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Speed and stability can make a huge difference

Over at Perry Web (Technorati? OK, Maybe I Do Care.) they noticed some of the improvements we've made in performance and stability on Technorati.

We've put a lot of effort into our search infrastructure over the last 3 quarters and I am extremely proud of our Operations team. Not only is our back end performance under 1 second almost all the time, the team was able to achieve this with very little additional expense.

I'm very excited to see someone posting good news since I suspect there a lot of others who have noticed but not thought to blog about it.

Finally, the other obvious thing that makes a huge difference is great people. That's what we have and we are looking to grow our team. Check out the job listings.

Technorati Tags:

Technorati,
Performance,
Perry Web

Update:

Case in point, here's a snapshot of my blog page on Technorati that shows it took 49 seconds between me hitting the Publish Post button and the post being available in the Technorati index.

Great suggestions on fighting scrapers, reposters and sploggers

Miriam Schwab raises a very important issue about scrapers, reposters, and sploggers ripping off her content in WordPressGarage is being scraped! I want to stop them…now!.

The comments are very informative and I recommend reading through them all.

The basic problem is, you find your content being republished on some other site without your permission and want to stop them. Some of the suggestions are:

• Alyk starts with the soft approach suggesting that you email them and ask them nicely to stop. This might actually work now and then, but for the hard core sploggers, you'll never find an email address and emailing may just tell them to add a live email address to their email spam lists. Yikes!
  


• Jennifer suggests filing a TOS complaint with their hosting provider. She also suggests reading:
  
  http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/09/05/autodiscovery-and-rss-scraping/#more-623
  


• Jonathan Bailey suggests filing a DMCA with their hosting provider or file a complaint with their advertisers.
  
  Jonathan seems to have some solid background on this problem. You might just want to check out his blog, Plagiarism Today.
  


• Israel Jobs suggests:
  report them as spam to Google here:
  
  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en
  
  Harder: submit a dmca complaint to Google:
  
  http://www.google.com/dmca.html
  

Having fought spam for many years, the best way to deal with this is to go after their pocket book. Track down an AdSense ID, file a complaint with Google or their other advertisers. If they can't make money easily, they'll look for other prey.

Technorati Tags: Scrapers, Reposters, Sploggers, Blogging, Fighting Back

Must read post about blogger stats by Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft over at TinyScreenfuls puts together a great roundup of stats that matter to bloggers with Google Analytics screen shots and meaningful context. The comments are helpful too.

Highly recommended.

Technorati Tags: Stats,
Bloggers,
Blogging

Evel Knievel has left the stadium

Just read this on Jalopnik.

Alas, Evel Knievel is gone. He definitely lit up the imagination of a pre-teen. Jumping buses, jumping sharks, jumping ridiculous distances, obstacles and natural phenomena.

Who amongst us would seek fame and accept such a personal, physical price. Very few, I expect.

Hope that last big jump landed.

EVEL KNIEVEL DAREDEVIL TRIBUTE 1938-2007

Technorati Tags: Fame,
Faith,
Glory,
Evel Knievel,
Robert Craig

American Pie

I don't blog often. I try to make each post something worth reading. This one brings together a visual interpretation of Don McLean's American Pie and the fact that I was turned onto this by my father-in-law.

Sent to me by a friend of mine..thought you might enjoy it.

Subject: FW: American Pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4

And I did.

Technorati Tags: American Pie

Customizing the Technorati Link Count Widget

Matt over at pixelspread talks about how to customize the look and feel of the Technorati Link Count widget. He does a nice job of making the result match the look and feel of his blog.




Oh, and since, at the time of this writing, no one had linked to the post, I thought I would to watch it change.

I use the widget on my posts. Most of them have no link love :(

Technorati Tags: Link Count Widget

Universal search comparison, explanation, and SEO challenges

It's a bit of a long read, but worth it if you want to understand the differences and similarities amongst Google Universal Search, Ask 3D, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live.

Lee Odden of Online Marketing Blog writes about it.

Small Business Guide To Optimizing Universal Search

At the end, Lee talks about new challenges in SEO to help optimize for universal search. Particularly intereszting are the comments about embedding video and images about product launches with relevant text, descriptions, and keywords or tags to help bump the product into multiple universal search opportunities.

Technorati Tags: SEO,
Universal Search,
Marketing

Use Technorati, It’s A Real Lifesaver

Well, that's the conclusion by Michael Sotia in How Technorati Provides Useful Blog Content.

You should certainly claim your blog, upload your photo, so it will show up next to your posts in search results, mark your Favorite blogs and check out our widgets.

Thanks for the tips Michael.

Tags: Technorati

Pitzer College's YouTube Class

Ok, I graduated from Pitzer.


I can't tell if this is a great sign of the times or something I should be embarassed about. Well, I'm going to stick with my optimistic streak and say, "this is pretty darn cool".

Pitzer College's YouTube Class

YouTube 101
Midterm: Mentos+Coke vid
Final: LonelyGirl.

YouTube Studies

Tags: Pitzer

Introducing Technorati Topics

Technorati collects millions of blog posts every day — too many for the average human being to even try to track. As a Technorati power user, I've been fascinated by just how much I can find out using Technorati Search. If you're like me and you know how to construct just the right search, you can winnow the results to just what you are looking for.

That being said, I've read a lot of great feedback on Technorati, how we should organize the vastness of the blogosphere and help people find the good stuff and help great bloggers be found. In particular, I read a lot of blog posts asking us to build what bloggers want. Well, today we are releasing a major overhaul of the Technorati Home page and a completely new area of the site that emphasizes blogs, Technorati Topics. With Topics, we help you discover what bloggers are writing about in Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life.

Each topic features blog posts from many of the best blogs out there to help you discover what's going on. The posts are refreshed frequently to reflect breaking news, new opinions, and the latest from the Web. We've set out to help you find some great blog posts to read and we've organized them by easy to browse topics. We considered a number of factors to get the seed list of blogs including Technorati Authority, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality.

I am very proud of what the team has put together over the summer. We continue to work on search, stability, and performance and we're listening to what you have to say about Technorati. I want you to know we really appreciate all that every blogger has to say. Today's release is just a first step. There is a lot more we have up our sleeves, so stay tuned for what's coming next and come back often.

I welcome your feedback and input, so, please, join the discussion about Technorati.

Technorati Tags: Technorati Topics

Another call out to Technorati - another chance to deliver

In Technorati - Why Crossing The Chasm Is Not Always a Good Idea, ExperienceCurve discusses how crossing the chasm may have its downside. Well, Techorati is still a young company. We have 30 great people, have accomplished much, are still alive today, and are ready to re-engage with the people that look to us to help make sense of the blogosphere.

As I said in my comments on the post above, "Personally, I'm bullish on Technorati :)". And why shouldn't I be. Great people have created incredible potential that Technorati now sits in the midst of. Our own employees, the bloggers who have stuck with us, and all of the blogosphere that continues to grow and react every day.

All I can say is, stay tuned, the best is yet to come.

Technorati Tags:
Technorati,
Feedback

iPhone fever and people blogging about 'em

Well, people seem to like blogging about the iPhone.

Posts that contain Iphone per day for the last 180 days.

Get your own chart!

Technorati Tags: iPhone

Super Sonic Technorati - It's the SST

We just launched, not one, but two sites. This has been in the works for a while, but it has been absolutely amazing how the team has cranked, raised the bar, and changed direction only to make things even better. It's like you tell them, "We will now climb this mountain.", and they look at me and say, "No, we should MOVE this mountain! We should totally f***in' move it!". And then, they do.

AwesomRati!

Dave Sifry talks about it here and here.

The new Technorati site


.

And the Smokin' search.technorati.com or s.technorati.com if you want to save some typing. Get ready to be blown away.




Check out the speed, it's SuperSonicTechnorati



And you can always read what Scoble has to say :)

A bit of banter with Beth - back and forth

Beth has some nice things to say about the Technorati changes here -> Technorati’s Update: And They Know EVERYTHING About Me?.

And you have to check out the pretty shade of blue juxtaposed with the shiny green of her newly configured Technorati Authority widget.

Technorati Tags: AFrogToKiss

Technorati Authority and some cosmetic improvements

Some good feedback on our new Blog page and People pages. It's great to read good things and we have a lot more in store for May. Stay tuned. Also some comments about Technorati Authority.

Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.

It is important to note that we measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if I link to your blog many times, I still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean my +1 will last another 180 days.

Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top as
expressed by the number of blogs linking to you. Since at the lower
end of the scale many blogs will have the same Technorati Authority, they will share the same Technorati Rank.

As of this writing, my blog has 16 inbound blogs, thus my Technorati Authority is 16. I'm sure there are many other blogs with 16 inbound blogs and we all have the same Technorati Rank.


Dorion
Authority: 16 · Rank: 305,316

so, I'm 305,316 steps from the top of the charts, based on 16 blogs pointing to me.



Technorati Displays New Authority Ranking by Ben Yoskovitz.

Technorati switches number of links for authority by FranticIndustries.

Technorati Establishes an ‘Authority’ Ranking System and Gets a New Look by doshdosh.

doshdosh also points out the Technorati WTF you can vote for, it you like.


Technorati Gains Authority Especially with the MyBlogLog Faithful by parislemon.

Technorati Tags: TechnoratiAuthority


Update:

I've posted the definitions to the Technorati Weblog under Technorati Authority and Rank.

New Technorati People / Profile pages

Marketing Pilgrim talks about some of our new pages. We've got a lot in store, but want to make things better as soon as they are ready.

Check out the new People pages, like mine.

You can also see the new and improved blog page.

Hope you like it and keep the feedback coming.

Technorati Tags: People,
Technorati Launches

Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

AWESOME!

You gotta admit, he's trying to walk a fine line. +1 for the community.

Technorati Tags: Digg,
KevinRose,
DRM

Sometimes you just haveta

I just have to link to a blog that installs Technorati widgets, including the Authority Widget, when he doesn't even have any links.

Metricks World, gotta like the title.

Technorati Tags: Widget,
AuthorityWidget,
TechnoratiAuthorityWidget,
GottaLink

The funniest thing I've read - EVER!

OMFG! ROTFL! I think my stomach is going explode.

I stumbled onto it while checking my Twitter stream. Lucky for me, twitter has been so broken I still had twitters from 3 days ago at the top of my list.

Adam had twittered, "Lindsay just sent me this: http://www.thewvsr.com/adsv... -- what a hoot!"

I followed the link, oh ok, here it is. Interesting, but not funny. maybe a little scary.

I looked through all the pictures and, on a whim, clicked on one of the links at the bottom, Fast Food Reviews. Well, the first few got me into Jeff Kay's writing style. By the time I got to KFC, it was the sheer pleasure of laughter so hard it hurt. It hurt BAAAD.

I cruised around a few more, KFC Bowl, following on the KFC theme. Here's an excerpt:

"My stomach sank. It appeared to have already been eaten at least once. It looked like a pipin’ hot bowl of vomit.


But, of course, I ate it anyway. And it was good, really good."

Well, I think I'll spend some more quality time reading The West Virgina Surf Report. Thanks, Jeff.

Technorati Tags: WVSR,
The WVSR,
ROTFL,
Humor,
Humour,
KFC.