Comments on: Build A Better Technorati

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:16:33 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for posting – that’s shocking! Shocking to read your post about it, has the forum thread been replied to yet?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:13:48 +0000

Hi John, I discovered something that puts these others to shame. Each time I go to Technorati I'm logged in as someone else without even trying. That means I can access their accounts, delete/change things, including their passwords. I promise, I'm not a hacker. This is something that's been going on for a while.

By: John

John — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:40:56 +0000

Sharon, exactly my point there’s a market here waiting for a competent company to come in and grab it.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:14:30 +0000

Trechnorati is becoming completely unreliable and the company is terrible at communication. Perhaps the reason that Technorati is so complacent is because they have no competition. Google and Alexa have the capability to track block reactions, so it wouldn’t take that much for either to improve upon that, add a few more bells and whistles and give T’rati some competition.

By: MyBlogLog, growing thorn in the ass of Technorati at Florchakh Dot Com

MyBlogLog, growing thorn in the ass of Technorati at Florchakh Dot Com — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:58:28 +0000

[...] has written a post about building a better Technorati, I’ve taken it as a great opportunity to write another post to my MyBlogLog Ups and Downs [...]

By: John

John — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:35:42 +0000

I’m also wondering why they keep redesigning the look and feel when the fundamentals don’t yet work.

Building a competitor would take a good technical team, a fair chunk of money (millions) for the software, hardware and datacenter plus running costs until cashflow postitive so thats where a VC would be useful. However should one have the money to build it I have access to a team of some of the best software engineers in the world and some pretty good infrastructure guys too.

Getting buzz from bloggers shouldn’t be too hard just look at some of the big names (A list bloggers) that have had problems with Technorati I’m sure they’d blog about and try a new service.

Combine that with a good relationship with the likes of PayPerPost, ReviewMe and the like and you’d be adding a lot of value to the community and are likely to recieve their help in return.

By: Florchakh

Florchakh — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:00:38 +0000

I cannot understand all these problems of Technorati staff, according to Alexa stats it’s #197 site in the web. Why do they sleep when the world keeps turning ;]

But building a competitor for Technorati might be difficult as hell, without a bunch of nice ideas and a bag full of money it’s impossible, in fact.