#14 Technorati

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Technorati is totally new to me. I've visited its website several times and spent much time over there to understand it and find its specialty and how it differs from others and why it is useful. All the popular Web 2.0 tools use tags, so does Technoriati, let alone "favorites" and search widget. So I did some test drive on it and this is what I found:

1. Its "favorites" is not organized as the web browsers do with a pulldown list and folders. Technorati organizes them by tags. While you enter the URL of the sites you like, you also give them one or more tags as index by which you can locate them easily in different situations. In my experience, the next time when I signed in again, I saw headlines and summaries from my favorite homepage or blogs, including some of our queenslibrarylearning 2.0 participants in the sequence of publication time with the latest appearing at the head, one day ago, two days ago..... This feature is indeed a pleasant addition that give us a lot of convenience.

2. Its "search" like its "favorites" gives us much more than the conventional search engines. The results include the ranking number in popularity and authority as well as recent postings concerning the target site. I tried three sites, one is my own blog sherwoodlivinglibrary, one is queenslibrarylearning, the other is 1010wins.com. It is interesting to know that among the 110 million blogs sherwoodlivinglibrary ranks in the 4,446,976 that means there are quite a lot more bloggers newer or visited less than mine; and the authority is 1 that means "1 blog reaction to sherwoodlivinglibrary"; it is the learning team page mentioned it once 15 days ago. The qllearning team is about ten times more popular and higher in authority than sherwoodlivinglibrary; while 1010wins.com is about 10 thousand time more and higher than sherwoodlivinglibrary. The search results also include the search subject' homepage screen shot that is a big plus than the conventional search engines.

3. Its "tags" work together with "favorites". The posts of the top tag is displayed automatically when "favorites" is chosen. When any other tags are clicked, their linked web posts will be shown according to time sequence, the latest first.
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