The silent death of Technorati

UPDATE 1/30/2010: bayareatechpros.com has finally been approved. I should note that the thumbnail of the website remains unchanged and I am unable to edit site info or do anything with the claim at this point.

UPDATE 1/7/2010: It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.

UPDATE 1/7/2010: An employee, Phillip Winn, who is a senior web developer has taken up a PR stance and resumed replying to the thread. It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.

Technorati-DeadTechnorati has been an authorative and integral part of the blogosphere, positioning itself as a benchmark and indexed search engine for blogs in the start of the Web 2.0 boom. This was then, however, and how fast things change…

In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, the real-time search engine of Technorati was no longer indexing new blogs. According to some wizardly mathemagic a new blog is created every second and Technorati, as a search engine, is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math. [Read more...]

Operation Chokehold: take down ATT data network

Operation ChokeholdThe iPhone, with its aesthetically pleasing and functional design, beckons users to enjoy internet access, YouTube, and other data services. AT&T as the single exclusive network and reseller of the iPhone, carries a tremendous data burden on its already deficient network. Rather than focusing on the issue at hand, the unreliability and overstress of the network, CEO Ralph de la Vega voices his displeasure with the amount of traffic AT&T customers demand from his network and attempts to redefine the smartphone based upon its keyboard size and potential data use rather than OS capabilities.

I will go ahead and point to the obvious; if you want an unclogged network do not force iPhone users to stick with it. You can’t have two things at once, pick priorities; though it seems AT&T intends to nibble what it cannot eat, and keep it on a 2 year contract of sub-par service and coverage.

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