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Technorati raises $2M more

Blog search engine Technorati has raised $2 million in new funding from existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and others. The San Francisco company has now raised more than $32 million.

The funding was first reported in TechCrunch, and Technorati has confirmed the news. The company just launched the revamped blog rankings that we wrote about earlier this month.

Technorati to change how it measures bloggers’ influence

Technorati is about to make some big changes to the way it measures how important bloggers are. That means its top-100 list of the most influential bloggers is going to change. Some bloggers may be delighted by the changes, while others who drop in the rankings may howl in protest

Basically, the company is going to reduce the costs of indexing the blogosphere and reporting the results on its Technorati.com site, which is a major blog… Continue Reading

Technorati’s Attention Index shows influence of the New York Times, YouTube

Technorati’s Attention Index measures which mainstream media sites get the most links and thus wield the most influence.

In the second installment of the the monthly index, the New York Times notably is listed as twice as influential as any other publication. But YouTube is even several times more influential.

Technorati usually measures a blog’s influence based on links to blog posts. The more links a blog has, the higher it ranks on Technorati’s list of authoritative… Continue Reading

Blogging community BlogCritics gets a face lift

BlogCritics, a community of some 3,300 writers of personal blogs, has had a major redesign to boost traffic.

The new site goes live at 1 am Tuesday with more images and improved navigation. Other aspects of the redesign include a different logo, more color, and features such as the “ObamaNation,” which monitors the connection between pop culture and the President. The site also has its professional side, with 15 editors combing through the posts to display… Continue Reading

Technorati launches an index of media sites that get the most links

Online media seems like a free-for-all battle. But there are some non-blog mainstream media sites that stand out as getting the most links and thereby have the most influence, according to blog-tracking firm Technorati’s newly released Attention Index.

The company usually measures a blog’s influence based on links to blog posts. The more links a blog has, the higher it ranks on Technorati’s list of authoritative blogs. But the new Attention Index measures where the bloggers… Continue Reading

New data: Technorati releases second and third parts of its blogger survey

Blog indexing company Technorati released more data in the last couple of days from its new blogosphere survey. In part two and three of its report, the company has more to say about the profiles and habits of bloggers. (See my coverage of part one here.) The summary: bloggers are a diverse lot, but not so raggedy as their stereotype would have you believe.

Blogging is proving to be a path to fame. Beyond that, bloggers… Continue Reading

Technorati releases data on state of the blogosphere: bloggers of the world have united

Technorati has searched through its own search index of the world’s blogs and released new data on the state of the blogosphere in 17 months. And my, there are a lot of us bloggers out there. It’s time for some serious navel gazing.

Technorati has indexed more than 133 million blogs since 2002. The last report was posted in April 2007. At that point, Technorati reported there were more than 70 million blogs, with 120,000 being… Continue Reading

Roundup: Nvidia battles recall flyers, Google dives deep and the Internet is broken again

Here’s the latest action:

The Internet is broken – This is starting to sound like a broken record. Didn’t we just write about the DNS flaw that could cripple the Internet? Now two security researchers demonstrate a new technique to intercept Internet traffic on a scale similar to the abilities of agencies such as the National Security Agency.

Android unveiled? — The Android Guys say a trusted source has given them the detailed specs of the first… Continue Reading

Technorati joins the ad network fray

Blog search engine Technorati has just unveiled its new ad network, Technorati Media. It’s a smart and obvious expansion, particularly as the San Francisco startup tries to regain some of its initial buzz.

There’s heavy competition in this area. Among existing companies, Glam Media, which has been showing big numbers with its controversial push for growth, just announced the acquisition of Monetise Limited, a U.K. firm that represents different media companies, while Federated Media recently launched… Continue Reading

Technorati raising $10M to keep tracking blogs

Formerly a media darling, but now mostly overlooked, San Francisco-based Technorati has plugged on nonetheless. The blog search engine has raised $7.5 million of a fresh $10 million round, according to documents unearthed by peHUB.

Technorati has spent a couple years casting about for a business model, but appears to finally be finding its way, with the help of raw data. As we recently reported, Truviso used the company to show off a tag cloud technology… Continue Reading

Truviso shows off dynamic database with Technorati tag cloud

Databases aren’t the most exciting technology. But Truviso has found a way to make them dynamic. Using a cool new technology, Truviso allows web companies such as Technorati to display ever-changing data on the fly.

Technorati, which indexes the blogosphere, is debuting the Truviso technology today with its live channel tag clouds. The clouds are a collection of keywords. The bigger the font, the more the keyword in blog posts. If the color is blue, that… Continue Reading

Roundup: AMD falls, Sequoia expands, and more

Here’s the latest action:

Advanced Micro Devices is in a world of hurt — The Sunnyvale, Calif. chip company lost $358 million on revenues of $1.5 billion in the quarter. It cited a tough outlook for the computer market, but it is clearly hurting from Intel’s newfound competitiveness. AMD’s core business is microprocessors and graphics chips for personal computers. It has other businesses related to getting those chips into other devices, from consumer electronics to mobile… Continue Reading

Roundup: “Bubble video” taken down, but singer gets $3M, Bahu, RivalMap, more

Here’s the latest action:

1. Bubble Video singer gets $3M
2. Bahu, a social network for European high schoolers
3. Vinod Khosla upset with California regulations
4. Technorati revises its front page yet again
5. Smilebox, a software download for sharing photos, videos and other media, raises $7 million
6. Microsoft announces display advertising on MSN Mobile
7. Competitious relaunches as RivalMap, gives you dashboard to track your competitors
8. Worst case scenario: The next Great Depression
9. Verizon to take over all your… Continue Reading

Surprise: chief executives out at Podtech, Technorati

The chief executives of PodTech, a tech-news company, and Technorati, a blog search engine, separately announced their departures today — neither move is unexpected from these formerly high-flying companies

Both launched a couple of years ago, when the promise of podcasting and blogging were exciting but not well understood. They both made big bets about the evolution of the web that have — from what we can tell — turned out to be off.

Podtech’s John Furrier… Continue Reading

Roundup: Virtual sex bed suit, Geni, Gay.com, Netvibes, Helio and more

Here’s the latest (ahem) action:

Second Life avatar sues another avatar, over virtual sex bed — We should have predicted this. Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Second Life resident Volkov Catteneo. This is apparently the first time an avatar has sued another avatar in the virtual world. Alderman, who has made money before in Second Life by selling a virtual island for $50,000 (real money), says his avatar, Stroker Serpentine… Continue Reading

Roundup: Geomas’ geo-search patent, Google’s privacy, YouTube filters, and more

Here’s the latest (updated) action:

Geomas says it has location-based search patent — The London based company says its patent is being infringed upon by some 20 large internet players, and this probably includes Google and Yahoo. Here’s a description of the patent. The company says it raising $20 million to help it extract licensing deals. It started by suing Verizon. (Via Techdirt).

KyteTV gets investment from Nokia — See our story here.

IPO market sees strongest month since 2004,… Continue Reading

Roundup: Facebook fast, Attendio, Pricelock, latest Google stuff and more

Here’s the latest tech action:

Pledging Facebook fast — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks to outside developers yesterday that they can build applications for Facebook and keep “all the revenue,” with no revenue share, drew the biggest response from the crowd, and was clearly the most significant announcement about the company’s plans for partnerships. And now, given our prodigious Facebook coverage lately, we’re declaring a Facebook fast for at least 24 hours.

Big media linking to… Continue Reading

Blog search engine Technorati tops off with $11.52 million

Technorati Inc., the San Francisco company that offers a blog search engine and other services, has raised another $1 million, but still has not articulated a clear strategy.

The latest capital adds to the existing $10.52 million already raised as part of its third round of financing, started last June.

DG Incubation, operator of Technorati Japan, is listed as a new shareholder, alongside existing backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, according to PE Wire,… Continue Reading

Roundup: Sabio, Photobucket cont, Technorati, Choicestream, PersonalBee and more

Here’s the latest:

Thanks for patience — First, VB just changed servers. We understand there are a few formatting problems on our front page, feed hiccups and issues with our search engine. We’ll working to fix them.

Sabio Labs raises second round — Sabio is a secretive Palo Alto, Calif. start-up building a new design process for analog chips. It’s likely up to something significant, because Andy Bechtolsheim, the brilliant engineer and co-founder of Sun Microsystems has led a… Continue Reading