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March 22, 2004

[pcf] Technorati

Dave Sifry, everyone's favorite techie, is talking about Technorati. "It's a search engine for conversations," he says. [Disclosure: I'm on their board of advisors.]

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 22, 2004 06:22 PM

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Dave Sifry talks about Technorati tracking the "world live web". He also calls it a "search engine for conversations". Some thoughts: I wonder if the brand will limit its market potential. It's kind of a tongue-twister and hard-to-spell domain. It's... [Read More]

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And if it really is "conversations", then ultimately it needs to be a search engine for conversations going on in mailing lists, IRC sessions, chat rooms, and open IM sessions. I suspect there are far more "live" conversations going on there at anyone time than the number of people submitting a new blog entry or comment to a blog at any one time.

I'd love to see an army of IRC bots go out and monitor open IRC chats, and then you could have technorati alert you to when an interesting chat is going on on a subject you're interested in, in real time. Perhaps not just the subject, but the participants as well: alert me when Mitch Kapor is talking about Chandler in an OSAF chat session in IRC....

Posted by: Brian Dear | March 23, 2004 11:42 AM

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