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Technorati — a blog search engine and many other things depending whom you speak to, and when — has yet another a new direction. Word is Dave Sifry's wandering venture, backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, has taken over Personal Bee, an also-ran news aggregator. The purchase price is only in the six figures; Personal Bee's founder will come in as VP of business development at Technorati; we're not sure whether the value of the target was in engineering, where Technorati's been weak. Any significance beyond that?
One person familiar with Personal Bee says Technorati — which has in the past offered brand-tracking to marketers, ego-surfing to bloggers and search to ordinary users — plans now to build themed news pages in the style of Techmeme. Interestingly, while Technorati boasts of tracking more than 50 million blogs, Techmeme polls a select group of tech news sites. It's about time that Technorati focused on the quality of stories it picks up; not just the quantity.
Dave Sifry's dizzying strategy
Technorati — a blog search engine and many other things depending whom you speak to, and when — has yet another a new direction. Word is Dave Sifry's wandering venture, backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, has taken over Personal Bee, an also-ran news aggregator. The purchase price is only in the six figures; Personal Bee's founder will come in as VP of business development at Technorati; we're not sure whether the value of the target was in engineering, where Technorati's been weak. Any significance beyond that?
One person familiar with Personal Bee says Technorati — which has in the past offered brand-tracking to marketers, ego-surfing to bloggers and search to ordinary users — plans now to build themed news pages in the style of Techmeme. Interestingly, while Technorati boasts of tracking more than 50 million blogs, Techmeme polls a select group of tech news sites. It's about time that Technorati focused on the quality of stories it picks up; not just the quantity.
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2:35 PM on Tue Mar 13 2007
By Nick Denton
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Ironic -- in that one of the reasons we built www.buzztracker.com in the first place was because we realized we couldn't get the Technorati API to work -- and now they are going to launch another yet another copycat product (see WTF, see their logo and compare it to the Feedburner logo).
I wish they would focus on making sure that the core blog search worked -- it is still a great idea and the world could use it!
There are rumors that Yahoo may have acquired news site BuzzTracker, a tiny news aggregation site, for $5 million. Alan Warms, CEO of parent company Participate Media, will join Yahoo as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo News (a job with a bit of a revolving door, apparently).
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