Dave Sifry alerted me yesterday that Technorati was rolling out some new capabilities:
[from Technorati Weblog: Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati by Tantek Celik]This afternoon Technorati introduces a technology preview of microformats search for contacts, events, and reviews. Available now in the Technorati Kitchen, I invite you to come take a look at this first of a kind realtime microformats search engine, see what the team has worked very hard to build for you, and let us know what you think and what you want from microformats search.
If you are (or will be) publishing with microformats in your blog, and you're already pinging Technorati, then you are all set. Our new microformats search will index your microformats.
For all other kinds of web pages with microformats (e.g. about/contact pages, events calendars/listings, online product reviews, social networking profiles, conference schedules, your list of favorite restaurants, etc.), we're proud to introduce the Pingerati microformats pinger and distributor.
Whenever you publish or update such pages with microformats, use Pingerati to notify microformats indexers and aggregators, such as Technorati, EVDB, and several others in development.
Welcome to the realtime microformats web.
The notion here is to allow people us to embed microformats into the materials we are generating on the web, and Technorati will discover the information within those microformats. For example, I could embed event information in a blog post, and now, Pingerati would pick information up, and realize that it was an event, for example. Technorati will be indexing these microformats, so you can now search for all contacts, events, and reviews that are marked "san francisco" and get a deluge of indexed information.
This is a great example of supporting the edge activities of individuals with core infrastructure. Partnering with companies like EVDB and Upcoming.org, Technorati is taking another step forward in supporting the critical principle of individuals controlling their own information.
Stowe, this does seem neat, but is it just me or is Technorati in general getting flakier vs. more stable? I've seen more error messages and more huge bouncing around of rankings lately than I have ever seen before. Could it be that they simply can't scale to meet the volume? Something seems busted, anyway...
- Stuart
Posted by: Stuart MacDonald | June 01, 2006 at 11:17 PM
Looks to me like edgeio is only one thing slice of the pie. If T'rati is successful, they could be a serious contender for edgeio, zvents, and all other microformat aggregation type sites.
Posted by: James Yu | June 02, 2006 at 07:49 AM
Definitely something new for us to support on our profile pages.
BTW your photo is posted here as well as on Flickr.
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Posted by: Bill Liao | June 02, 2006 at 03:22 PM