May 20, 2004

Technorati developers brainstorm

link relationships
<link rel="">
XFN
votelinks
creative commons (rel="license")

filtering
sorting expressions in the queries
if then
and or not
recentness, authority

Tantek: sort by criteria

Use link relationships
strength of relationship
friends
acquaintances
people i've met
show me links from people that consider themselves colleagues

wikis and email lists

profiles
multiple authors per blog
multiple blogs per author
aggregrate stats
filter out
uninentionally gaming
distributed orkut

merging sites you own
continuity

blog migration service?
"since we have archives of all your crap"

Steve Gillmor: blog forwarding service?

Don Park: generating permalinks?

restricted currently to blogs
poll major media sites
the "live" web

revenue model
user facing internet service
not selling software, enterprise, data
advertising (google, yahoo)
subscription services: advanced data analytics
not tremendously well thought through yet

not going to be a blog company
how can we help you build great ...
blogging engines
client software

don't want to compete with vendors

Q: ads in API calls?
A: I don't know
goal: not to be intrusive

Doc: how many here would pay a small amount of money for some interesting information?

Me: how small? how interesting?

overriding goal: don't squeeze the nuts of the customer

custom technorati searches you could put on your own site / profit share

ad revenue - targeting poor, revenue insignificant

Technorati text ads on a page

a way to say no to technorati
robots.txt

threadorati?

full-content RSS stats?
what percentage of RSS feeds are full-text

blog format data model

Atom is easier for T to parse, because it distinguishes full text from excerpt / summaries removing the need for HTML-scraping

anonymous posting through technorati
technorati profile-based commenting

outbound links in a profile?
fixed in the API?

Marc question:
Re social network with tight bonding between technorati ranking and... what's the story of a vendor who offers up that social network if his system is enabling all these pings into the technorati database

"come and talk to us about it"

what if were taking that social network and scattering it to the wind like pollen, would everybody have to call you up and...?"

"no," laughter, "but you would..."

Marc: Are we done talking about blogs yet?

More people writing reviews than writing blogs

structure not limited to title, body, permalink

events
resumes
reviews
recipes

data model extensions
data mining other kinds of microcontent besides blogs
as if there was a world besides blogs

blogging / semistructured data sets:

RVW
Review XML format

people don't even agree on what is a blog
semistructured content

scott rosenberg:
i don't see the demand for that at this point

steve gillmor:
compression of time
in rss/atom space
content moving from web container to rss container
event-based syndication more efficient for all of these kinds of microcontent fragments

trend already emerging will account for what marc's talking about

low-hanging fruit

RSS events
ESF
upcoming.org
craigslist events

book reviews intuited through deep linking to amazon

end users
trying to define technorati
service for linkage or data

provide as much value for freee as possible
especially for the end user as free asp ossible
with upsells

Provide a sitemeter like service? (Yes, stat-tracking is a real unmet need! -me)

Zack: creative commons media search

Marc: search for "good politicians"

Open Playlist format
without hardlinking to specific files or a specific file
XPSF ?

tracking of media formats

SMIL
could support creative commons redistribute ok rule

Zack: one day a month hackfest?

Loïc: Restaurant most talked about in SF tonight?

conversation past tonight?
ping developers.technorati?
ping sifry's alerts
how to host the conversation

developers, marketers, content people

kevin: use the wiki, they look at the techn cosmos of it

Liz is single point of contact
liz [at] technorati.com

Marc: you forgot the most important part... swag!

"we all get Technorati Miatas..."

What if we did a contest
paid hard cash for coolest app
$10,000

Don Park: host a direct access machine as a developer's sandbox

Marc: PeopleAgg loves Technorati
PayPal evangelist
EFF and chilling effects: technorati to crack speech shutdowns
Mark from SAP, enterprise software
FutureSalon.org on friday (future of games, all life will be a game soon)

Kevin Burton Newsmonster has technorati threading built in as a right-click, let me win the 10k i'll give to EFF

"nice social hack, kevin" (doc)

Posted by xian at May 20, 2004 11:20 AM

DUDE!
This sooooooo reads like dada poetry.
I LOVE IT!

Posted by: liza at May 20, 2004 2:54 PM

Neat summary! One thing you didn't touch on, though, is just how many damn cool folks were there. I was honored and happy to be among the, well, technorati ;). Sorry I didn't have a chance to meet you, though!

Posted by: Adam Lasnik at May 20, 2004 4:53 PM
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