Things I want to like about Technorati
Related entries in Blog software & toolsThis post is titled "things I want to like about Technorati" because it is about my love-hate relationship with Technorati. All the cool features I just really want to be a part of but which don’t work for me.
Technorati, I want to like you for…
- picking up my tags, even when you don’t for weeks on end
- updating my ping, when you seem to forget who I am
- claiming my blog in your oh-so-simple new process involving nothing more than my username and password, even when you stall and cannot be made to work manually
- recognizing the URLs of blogs I try to claim
- answering my support emails in under a month’s time
- updating my picture in my profile after the 6th try
For some reason, I hit odd problems with Technorati. Like my inability to change my profile picture or to claim certain blogs. No reason I can see to run into errors, but there it stands.
What do you ‘want’ to like Technorati for?
Here’s one thing I do actually like Technorati for… their new charts. And they work!
Posts that contain Arieanna per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!
Tags: technorati
January 31st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
It matter not the number of new links I can find on my own each day, but I would like that number of links to change on their system once in a while. It would actually convince me that they are doing what they say they are!
February 1st, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Arieanna, thanks for this post. Every single bullet point you mentioned, I thought, “Yes! Yes! Exactly!” For example, I’ve finally been able to claim 57 of Know More Media’s 60 blogs (not the funnest process), but the last three are waiting for Technorati’s courteous, yet achingly sloooooow support team to step in.
Jim, I feel your pain. What’s with the link count roller coaster Technorati has us all on? Up one week, down the next - it seems to work well for a while, and then hiccup and burp its way through the next update.
Here’s a really “wishful thinking” one: I want to like Technorati for letting me organize and/or mine the data it’s got on me - for example, I’d love to be able to export a list of the URLs that have linked to my blog in the past x number of days.