Episode 29 of the PodLeaders show
My guest on the show today is David Sifry - David is the founder and CEO of Technorati - the Google of the blogosphere (or Live Web as it is now being called). Dave was a great interviewee - interesting, effusive and open.
And in what appears to be a direct response to one of my questions, Dave has switched his personal blog to full feeds and has started posting to his blog again - result!
Here are all the questions I asked Dave and the times in the interview I asked them:
David, can you start off with a little bit about yourself - what is your background and how did you come up with Technorati? - 0:37
Is it only blogs that Technorati indexes or is it anything with an rss feed? - 13:07
Do you have plans to index the comments that people leave on blogs as well? - 14:13
Readers’ Questions
Ken Carroll:
Do you have a China strategy? What do you foresee there in terms of blogging and blog search? - 18:08Keith Bohanna:
My user experience of Technorati would be happier if the sponsored links nestled above and in the middle of the search results were more clearly differentiated. Their current presentation in an almost identical manner to the results makes it difficult to do a quick scan. Any chance of changing this? - 20:35James Corbett:
Technorati is now offering search results on their Blogfinder service in OPML format, which is nice, but where we really need OPML is in their Favourites service so that we can use it to produce a proper Reading List. Is that feature forthcoming? And do the intend to fully embrace OPML going forward? 22:31Marshall kirkpatrick:
In your recent state of the blogosphere report you’ve said that tagging has gone way up, but what percentage of that is categories in certain blog platforms being indexed as tags - and aren’t those pretty different concepts? - 23:17Why don’t you offer a javascript applet to create the code for bloggers? - 24:24
Me again!
How does Technorati make its money - is it all Ad revenue? - 26:45
What’s next for Technorati? - 27:52
On your own blog Dave, how come you don’t publish full feeds? - 30:44
And finally, when are Yahoo!/Google/Microsoft buying you guys out? - 32:01
I asked people to submit questions for this interview and I got a flood of them - thanks - unfortunately 12 minutes into the interview, when we were still on the first question, I knew I wouldn’t be getting all the questions in - sorry if I didn’t get around to your question.
Download the entire interview here (15.2mb mp3)
Tom,
Glad to see my question getting through!
Dave’s answer was pretty good. You can, in fact, use Technorati to search in Chinese. That kind of gives him a presence here - I use Technorati all the time, including for Chinese keywords. I also think he’s wise to consolidate his main market before getting involved in somewhere like China - this can be a tricky place to do business.