Technorati
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Technorati is an internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs. As of June 2005, Technorati indexes over 11 million weblogs. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Technical details
While not an open-source shop, Technorati has an active developer community, many of them from open source culture - in part because Sifry is himself a big open source advocate. There is a public developer's wiki where devs and contributors collaborate, and various open APIs.
Company makeup
Management team
As of January 2005, Technorati is managed by Dave Sifry (also the CEO); Adam Hertz, VP of Engineering; Joi Ito, VP of International Business and Mobile Devices; Teresa Malo, CFO; Richard Ault, Director of Marketing; Liz Westover, Director of Developer Relations; and Tantek Çelik, Sr. Technologist.
The Board of Directors
- Kim Polese, Founder of Marimba Inc.; formerly Java product manager at Sun; currently associated with TechNet, the Global Security Institute, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Engineered Innovation
- Andreas Stavropoulous, Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Ryan McIntyre, co-founder of Excite and a principal at Mobius Venture Capital
- Dan Beldy, venture capitalist and early Technorati COO; formerly a partner at Brintech and then Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and a hotshot naval pilot
External links
- Technorati
- Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above
- Technorati tags: an introduction Tutorial on Technorati tag pages and the use of tags in blogging
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