Here go the details:

Spindex is a silverlight app which aggregates your social profiles, twitter and facebook for the time being, in one place. The additional (not yet functional) feature of RSS feeds makes it somewhat of a mashup between Google Reader and (a non-centralized) Google Buzz. You can post updates to an individual account or to accounts at once. You can filter by name or keyword across multiple networks: want to know about the oil spill? Filter it, see what RSS News are saying, see what public tweets are saying, see what your facebook friends are saying – Spindex centralizes all this information into one spot. It’s a different way to view information.

So, without further speculation, here come the screenshots and their explanation.

You are first greeted with a quaint login screen	After loging in with your live id you are presented with your unconfigured account
Setting Up Spindex Accounts	This is how your default stream looks. Note that twitter updates are more frequent and take up the default page.
This is Spinded facebook page. You can comment, but if you wanna see pictures you still have to go to facebook.	When you click on a name in facebook (individual or page) you are taken to their news stream, and on the right are top Bing search results for the preson, or page, selected.
You can update facebook and twitter status through spindex. See screenshot for further explanation.	And this is the Spindex tab, which currently does not show anything.

Some functions of Spindex are not yet functional, such as it’s RSS reader and the Spindex tab. If RSS tab functions anything like twitter/facebook it will be a very convenient way to see news, taking a jab at Google Reader and desktop clients like RSSOwl. Likewise what Spindex suggests is a future where clients (think IE, Firefox) will be the main way of interfacing with services like facebook or twitter (think http://), whether it be on the desktop or on your mobile phone.

Another thing I should point out: Spindex completely relies on Ging, and people using Spindex will be nudged into switching to Bing. The app itself may be nothing more than a way of getting users hooked on Bing and delivering personalized adds by the information it collects from your activity. But I don’t know, this is just speculation, if you have thoughts SPEAK UP.

This includes comprehensive integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and a wide range of other sharing sites.

Expect these changes to roll out by the end of 2010.

Protocol: XMPP

Username: Your Facebook Vanity Name
Domain: chat.facebook.com
Jabber ID: vanityname@chat.facebook.com
Password: <Facebook password>

Connect port: 5222
Connect server: chat.facebook.com
Use SSL/TLS: no
Allow Plaintext Authentication: no

So if you are setting it up for Pidgin, your settings should look something like this:

If you are still having trouble, check out the official support page.

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 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.

But Technorati’s inactivity does not end here, a brief look over Get Satisfaction, Technorati’s official support forum, shows an utter lack of support resolution. Technorati employees are no longer offering support or resolutions. A thread, created by an employee in early November, claims that Technorati is hard at work “drastically speed[ing] up the blog claim review process”, DW provides further analysis. Fair enough; however, after my detective analysis I noticed that the last post from both employees comes on November 25th, the one year anniversary of 2008 Technorati layoffs, where their high performers were replaced by lower paid and lower skilled workers. No posts were made after the 25th.

A review of their official blog quickly sets off new alarms, the last update was on 10/21/09, something about manually sifting out all the Acai berry and make money at home crap from their entire index while working on a brand new clean data set. Prior to this date the format seems to be two posts per month, after this date there are no posts.

Lets leave their domain for a second, and look at Technorati from a 3rd perspective…

Traffic Trends.

Checking Google Trends shows an obvious decline, with some empty blocks. I downloaded the CVS and removed Jun 29, 2008 to Feb 15, 2009 as it would upset the graph. I put the data into a scatterplot and added a trend line, which forecasts Technorati’s coming demise.

Now, if we move from Google’s trendlines and check out Alexa’s more detailed stats (alexa only tracks users who have the Alexa tracking cookie, afaik). Technorati’s search volume, visitor count, and total reach is dropping faster than the 911 stock market.

So what does all this mean?

Technorati is on life-support, its pre-built scripts and algorithms are able to pull content from other sites and generate a dynamic page without human input. Search engines supposedly place higher value on websites listed on Technorati, which is terrible. Technology strategists at Tequinox have written Technorati an open letter warning of impending doom if they choose to continue these fraudulent lending business practices.

If you want to take action, DIGG THIS STORY, the more people see it the more pressure there is on Technorati to take action.

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.

Operation Chokehold, purpose and reasoning: Proposed by Dan Lyons Operation Chokehold will attempt to take down, or at least cripple, the AT&T data network. Keep in mind, voice services will remain operational, so the 70-something percent of cell phone users AT&T owns will remain able to make calls.

On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time (GTM -8), we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every smartphone user turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. The idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

Some things to keep in mind:

• Remember to turn OFF your Wi-Fi during that hour. There would be NO point browsing YouTube in the office or home and using your Wi-Fi without knowing.
• If you have enough upstream bandwidth at home try using Orb or AirVideo or a similar app to stream a movie for an hour. If not, try MediaFly which will let you download mostly the same video podcasts as your iTunes app without a 10mb limit.

More sources of discussion on the subject may be found at neowin, fakestevejobs, Gizmodo. I will keep this page updated with latest developments.