More notes from Technorati salon

Christian Crumlish

Forgive the raw note dump but I'm on deadline and I figure notes are better than nothing, especially when being Searlsdotted...

This page's name is called TechnoratiSalon.
TechnoratiSalonIdeas

... (see blog entry for start)

Merged two codebases, API calls along with internal functionalities (bug fixes work for both HTML output and APIs).

Techno front-end app should be built on the API calls too.

"We actually eat our own dog food."

parameter limits:

more than just 20 results (up to 100)
ask it to show older links (not just on frontpage, vs. current=yes - frontpages only, means a bunch more archiving as well.

http://developers.technorati.com/
new mailing list developers@technorati.com

API demos
looking at the data
how influential are these bloggers
compared to "big media sites"

graphed 1500-2000 largest media sites
NYTimes, WallStreet Journal

plugged in known numbers about bloggers

by number of inbound blog sources

1. nytimes
2. cnn
3. bbc
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n. wired
n+1. suicide girls
etc. salon
boingnoing
instapundit
slate
fox news
sfgate
reuters

"now do links per employee" (doc searls)

audience member: notice where the wall street journal isn't
(no inbound links)

notice intermingling of blogs and major media

persian blog: balmasque ??

Post archives back to Jan 2004
Link archives to Nov 2002

keyword search built on full text archives
do only 7 days so far

q: how many employees now?
a: just hired 8th person

I'll post my notes from the brainstorming / wishlist / open discussion in the next entry.