The week 9 web2.0 activity for exploring Technorati begins at http://technorati.com/ . The website is another Web2.0 tool that specifically deals with social networking and how individuals interconnect and collaborate globally across the internet.
Once again, I've signed up for yet another account.
Their Headline banner proclaims: “Zillions of Photos, Videos, Blogs, and more—some of them have to be good”
So, obviously it is a tool to share and find photos, videos, and blogs and more.
The center navigation tool of the page offers categories of “most popular” items in Videos, Music, DVDs, Movies, Games, News, and Blogs.
The links are shown based upon their own links in others’ blogs; so in other words, the people who are linking to them are driving the search results to the top based on the sheer number of links.
There are also links to “Top Tags” (the most popular tagged items) and extra tools for the Technorati such as Browser Buttons, Desktop Widgets, Blog Widgets, Blog Searching and Info, Pinging, and Misc. Widgets; all of which make Technorati a VERY POWEFULL Web2.0 tool indeed—if you truly want to stay ultra-connected, this is the tool you CAN’T do without!
There are further linked websites listed in category tabs such as: Favorites, Watchlist, Popular, and WTF (stands for “Where’s the Fire” in this instance)
“WTFs are short blurbs that explain the buzz around people, things, or events—why the hot topics are so hot—and you can vote the best ones to the top. Have some genius to spare? Jump in and write a WTF!”
Nuts-N-Bolts…
Part of the process of signing up and creating your profile includes adding links to your existing blog(s) to the Technorati empire. They have some simple rules for doing this: (They call it “claiming your blog”)
Here are their simple instructions:
Activate the claim using Post Claim
Blogger Posting Instructions
In another web browser window, log in to your Blogger account
On the Blogger Dashboard, click on your blog name
Click "Create" to create a new post
Copy the code below, then paste it into the main text box of your new post with any Title
After I followed the instructions, I published the blog entry with their special code that shows up in the blog like this: Technorati Profile
After I published that code, I returned to their website to click on the next button (which was interestingly titled [“Release the spiders”] Apparently a nod to the bots/agents/spiders that it sends out to find its own code to return the data to Technorati for logging) to finish the “claiming” process. A very , very Web2.0 feature!
Next began the process of editing your blog information for the Technorati audience. They have available a profile or description of the blog, the language you write in, a place to create tags for your blog, and code you can insert into your blogs for allowing others to save your blog as a Technorati favorite!
There are simply TOO MANY tools on this website to investigate here in this short blog—you really need to check it out at length to properly set up your account for maximum usability…
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