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Offbeat Guides Public Beta! (Nov 03 2008 08:38 GMT)
I'm proud to announce the launch of Offbeat Guides first product in public beta! http://www.offbeatguides.com/ What's Offbeat Guides?
I'll be on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny at 9am on 10/9 (Oct 09 2008 09:15 GMT)
It's a bit late notice, but I just found out myself - I'll be on Forum with Michael Krasny this morning at 9am PT. I'll be on with Carl Guardino, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and my old friend Sarah Lacy, columnist for Business Week, co-host of Yahoo! Finance's "TechTicker" and author of "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0".
Offbeat Guides Sneak Peek and Beta Update (Oct 02 2008 07:06 GMT)
We've been hard at work on the private beta of Offbeat Guides, and I thought it would be a good time to give y'all an update on our progress! We've been making huge strides both in making the site simpler and easier to use, as well as cranking away on the hard tasks of building out a deep semantic search service that dynamically builds guides for over 30,000 different city destinations around the world. We've taken a lot of what I've learned building comprehensive real-time search engines at Technorati, and also what Marina and her team have learned in building and curating a narrative experience when she was with Lonely Planet. We want to give you more than just the facts - to also get you a flavor and some the romance of the place and of your trip. We've expanded the partners we're working with to include even more local photographs, festivals, tickets, and events, and we've put in a lot of heuristic technology to help to make sure we weed out as much irrelevant information as possible.
State of the Blogosphere 2008 Wrap-up: Brands and the Blogosphere (Sep 26 2008 20:44 GMT)
To wrap up a long data-filled week, we've rolled out part 5 of the State of the Blogosphere report, which is all about how traditional brands are perceived and how bloggers interact with brands in the blogopshere. This data is taken from the large survey done on Technorati bloggers earlier this year, as described in our methodology. Here's a few of the interesting things we learned: More than four in five bloggers post product or brand reviews, and blog about brands they love or hate. One-third of bloggers surveyed have been approached to be brand advocates.
Technorati State of the Blogosphere Parts 3 and 4: How, and How Much? (Sep 26 2008 01:40 GMT)
Technorati continues to release our 2008 State of the Blogosphere report. Here's some highlights from the last two days of posts, on how most bloggers blog, and on blogging for profit (an eye-opening read). One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week. Over half of the Technorati top authority bloggers post five or more times per day, and they are twice as likely to tag their blog posts compared to other bloggers. From their use of RSS feeds, video, photos, and mobile updates, top bloggers are also tremendously sophisticated in leveraging the available tools to make their blogs more robust.
State of the Blogosphere 2008 Part 2: The What and Why of Blogging (Sep 24 2008 08:44 GMT)
Today Technorati released the second part of our State of the Blogosphere report, and today's topics focus on what bloggers blog about, and why they blog. Technorati surveyed over 1000 bloggers who use the service, and came away with some very interesting statistically significant information: Some highlights: Both personal and professional topics are equally popular, with most bloggers covering multiple topics Half of bloggers consider their style to be sincere, conversational, humorous, and expert in nature. Although there is a perception of blogging as a means for writing a tell-all or gossiping, those blogging styles fell to the bottom of the list among the bloggers surveyed Music is more popular and politics is less popular in Asia, while personal, lifestyle, and religious topics are less popular in Europe.
Technorati's State of the Blogosphere, September 2008 (Sep 22 2008 19:31 GMT)
I'm very pleased to announce that the next installment of the State of the Blogosphere is out! It has been about a year since the last report, and the Technorati team has really worked hard to make this report something comprehensive, interesting, and informative. One of the big changes this year is that along with a comprehensive scan of Technorati's complete database, we also did a massive survey of bloggers who have registered with Technorati - a detailed survey with dozens of detailed questions about themselves, how they blog, and more. Altogether over 1,290 completed surveys came in from over 60 countries, with over 1,000 respondents (83%) providing their URLs and email addresses for follow-up. More information about the survey methodology is here.
Kudos to Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures! (Sep 22 2008 06:56 GMT)
Nice writeup today in the New York Times. Who says that nice guys finish last? Or that good guys can't win? I've been hearing good things about the team ever since their del.icio.
Complete Camera Lust: Canon EOS 5D Mark II (Sep 22 2008 06:27 GMT)
I admit it - I'm a bit of a camera junkie. I've been a photographer for 20 years, and I know enough to know that the camera you use is simply a tool - and that the true skill of photography lies between our ears. However, I just couldn't help myself from getting a bit tight-chested when I saw that Canon had announced their newest camera in their lineup this week - The EOS 5D Mark II. I left the film world behind in 2000, which I gotta tell you, was way too early - I was shooting 640x480 onto floppies way back when, and the pictures looked like crap. But ever since I got the 3 Megapixel Nikon 990, I've been hooked on digital.
Giving MarsEdit a try (Sep 22 2008 04:08 GMT)
For many years, I've been using Adriaan Tijsseling's ecto as an offline blogging client. It's not perfect, but it's a damn good blogging client - full-featured, easy to use, and has plugin support, as well as having nice things like Technorati tags built into it. if you're starting out blogging, you should definitely check it out, it is a big improvement from the web-based tools that come with most blogging platforms. Recently I've noticed, however, that for some reason, I haven't been blogging much. Maybe it's because I've been really busy, or because of the amount of time I'm spending working on Offbeat Guides, I'm not sure.
Technorati Acquires Blogcritics (Aug 26 2008 18:17 GMT)
Many congratulations to Richard and his team, and also to Eric and Phillip at Blogcritics! Welcome aboard. More about the announcement is available, and Techcrunch has a story as well.
Personalization and the publishing business (Aug 22 2008 18:37 GMT)
The Business Standard of India wrote up a really interesting review of Offbeat Guides today: Recently, I had the chance to travel to Japan to speak and participate in an international conference. Ever heard of Sapporo? Quite honestly, I hadn?t.
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