Those who have been following Technorati over the years may remember the basic proposition emblazoned on the web site, What's Happening on the Web Right Now . One of the exciting things about working at Technorati )particularly if you're a data geek like me( is that the web is changing in real time. Searching it in real time and discovering the significant happenings realizes the promise of the web to catalyze and connect us.

In a few short years, weblogs have come to represent the fundamental connected conversation of our pubic lives. The numbers involved have become very large: at Technorati we index over 65,000 blog posts an hour along with 2,800 fresh links a minute. Worldwide, we index over 100 million blogs. We built Technorati on blog search, helping bloggers, readers, journalists and brands understand the online conversation on a topic: who's talking, who's influential,

My first two months at Technorati are in the books, and in that time, a number of you have asked me "what is Technorati up to?" or "now that you're on board, what are your plans?" Today, I'm happy to introduce a new Technorati.com that answers both those questions. And it really is new: it leverages the best of Technorati's definitive resources to offer an evolved, discovery-driven experience that is more powerful, more relevant,

Forty-eight hours, a lot of links and a fist full of poker chips later, Blog World Expo 2007 comes to a successful close. I'd like to congratulate Rick Calvert and the entire Blog World crew for putting on a very impressive inaugural event that brought together intrepid bloggers and blog businesses. Technorati was happy to support the cause, and it was great meeting the core users who make our service so relevant.

Heard about the upcoming Blog World Expo ? I hope so, since it's being billed as the world's largest blogging conference and it's happening next week in Vegas! As if any of you actually needed an excuse to go to Sin City midweek, here you go: the globe's biggest meet-up of bloggers, vloggers, podcasteres, broadcasters, producers, media outlets and Web-savvy businesses. What better time and place to network with fellow online publishers, companies, and media folk?

No doubt about it: my first week on the job was a whirlwind of education and discovery. As our VP of marketing, Derek Gordon, said to me: "Welcome to the Blogosphere!" I promised that I would spend my first weeks on the job really listening and over my first seven days as CEO of Technorati I've already heard much that is instructive and useful. First and foremost,

With office key card in hand, network ID and password assigned, and a new Post-it pad on my desk,it's truly official: today is my first day on the job as Technorati's new President & CEO. While starting any new job always has its immediate challenges,

I admit it: I'm in no way impartial where Technorati is concerned. In my view, Technorati is a great company poised to achieve even greater heights. So it gives me great pleasure to tell you that how we get to that next great place is now the job Technorati's newest team member: Richard Jalichandra , who begins work today as Technorati President & Chief Executive Officer. This is a very exciting moment for Technorati. As you all know,

As readers of this blog may recall, the July power outage at our 365 Main Street facility knocked Technorati's web site off the 'net. Long prior to that event, we were already making plans to vacate 365 Main and move the infrastructure hosted there to another facility; that incident hardened our resolve to do so with all available haste. Since then, we've been busily migrating functionality to another data center. Most of the time,

There were a lot of developments over the past week in the emerging field of conversational marketing, something we first wrote about last January and have been working on with bloggers, brands and agencies ever since. Here's a quick summary of what we've been up to, with details below: -Auto manufacturer Scion launched a new conversational marketing campaign with Technorati aggregating conversation about independent film festivals and films ,

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,

We at Technorati are continually looking for ways to improve our service. We've heard many of your comments, concerns, and suggestions, and now we've revamped our Support Section. We hope these new improvements and features make it easier for everyone to find the information they need, and help each other out in the process. One new feature is the combined search box that helps users discover answers in both our monitored Discussions and updated FAQs.

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