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Technorati is tracking about 900,000 blog posts created every day; that's about 10.4 blog posts per second, on average.
The
Technorati Media network began in June 2008 and has grown to more than 40 million unique users across 45 blogs and social media sites.
In his presentation, Berlind shows how developers can come up with a new combination, select the available APIs from sites like Amazon, Google, eBay, and
Technorati, and then mash up two or more functions into a new application.
Technorati (www.teehnorati.com/), which describes itself as the "authority on what is going on in the world of weblogs," has several advanced options that make it another excellent search engine for locating blog posts.
Blogging here has increased fourfold in the past year, researchers
Technorati say in Blog Herald magazine.
Technorati: A site to find out what's happening in the world of blogs.
Specialized search tools, such as
Technorati and Feedster, are emerging to help us gather and sort good material from bad.
Technorati -- which tracks blogs, including newspaper ones -- today released the first part of its annual report on the "State of the Blogosphere."
Gallup says that one in five Americans who use the Web consult blogs "frequently" or at least "occasionally." Moreover,
Technorati, which tracks 27.6 million blogs, reports that the size of the blogosphere doubles every five and a half months, and a new blog is created every second.
Similarly, Lauer assigns "
Technorati tags"--such as Google Earth, Gmail or MapBuilder--to the topic of each entry in his Education/Technology blog, so the
Technorati blog-indexing tool will compile his thoughts on various subjects, and report them with other items given the same tags.