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sifry's alerts sifry's alerts david sifry's musings october 20, 2007 peoplewatching at the grove cafe, october 2007 technorati tags: california, espresso, grovecafe, marina, n95, nokia, peoplewatching, chestnutst, sanfrancisco posted by dsifry at 8:08 am | comments (2) | view blog reactions october 19, 2007 loic at his workspace (seesmic) loic at his workspace (seesmic) - 4132.jpg originally uploaded by david sifry i love startups, especially when they're my friends just getting their new businesses off the ground. here's loic lemeur at seesmic's offices (just being built out) with his tools of the trade. he's on the phone with one of his investors, telling him about the phenomenal takeup of seesmic's early alpha. posted by dsifry at 7:08 pm | comments (0) | trackback (0) | view blog reactions october 16, 2007 technorati brings back charts and authority filtering to search results pages ah, i'm really proud of the technorati team. richard and the team rolled out a bunch of updates tonight to the core search results that should make a bunch of people happier, as they are direct responses to a lot of feedback that we heard about from bloggers and regular users of the service. first off, doing a search now brings up a full list of posts, not just a select list of the top 3 tagged posts. we still default you to tagged posts (they're often more relevant than just keyword matches), but you can easily toggle between tags and full keyword information. we also brought back the authority filter and the charts, and you can see them on the right hand side of the page. and yes virginia, you can now easily set your default filter to whatever you like, and it is sticky between sessions (as long as you're on the same computer, of course). in addition, now that our enormous server move is done from 365 main to our new colo facilities, we're experiencing much better stability and performance. of course, the ops team is still keeping a daily eye out for any nasties, but it feels really great to know that the worst parts of the colo move are now long behind us, and we can let them get sleep (occasionally). i'm really grateful they're around! keep up the great feedback and comments that we've gotten in the past few months - we're constantly on the lookout for any issues that might rear their head in the future, and having so many great bloggers out there to let us know about them helps the team enormously. my apologies again if you've been affected by a problem, glitch, or a bug. we're working hard to make that a thing of the past. onwards and upwards! technorati tags: feedback, gratitude, jalichandra, operations, pride, team, tech, technorati, update posted by dsifry at 10:13 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions october 8, 2007 back from rit. great time, yummy ribs, some photos. it was my first trip to rochester, where i spoke at the rit entrepreneur's conference. it was a lot of fun, and the folks there really showed a lot of hospitality and rolled out the red carpet for me. the last evening, we went to a famous biker bar / bbq place called dinosaur. here's a pic of me digging in to the ribs: thanks again to vic, liz, eric, matt, lane, richard, meryl, donna, and everyone else who made me so welcome. here's a picture from a short trip out to one of the finger lakes towns, and the pier on the river: i put up the entire set of pictures. here's one more that i really like, of the green green grass and maple leaves that are changing in color. i just liked the composition. technorati tags: newyork, photos, puppy, rit, rochester, rochesterinstituteoftechnology, speech posted by dsifry at 2:00 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions october 4, 2007 heading to rit i'll be in rochester, ny tomorrow to speak at their conference on entrepreneurship - i'm looking forward to it! it'll be great to see old friends like liz lawley there as well as meet some of the students who are doing such interesting work. if you're in town, i think you can still get tickets, it's only $50 for the whole day... technorati tags: conference, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, rochester, rit posted by dsifry at 5:39 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions october 3, 2007 brooklyn bridge photowalk pictures i just put up my pictures from the brooklyn bridge photowalk. enjoy. thanks to everyone for coming out and enjoying the day together! technorati tags: bridge, brooklyn, brooklynbridge, brooklynbridgephotowalk, photowalk, photowalk2007, nyc posted by dsifry at 10:49 am | comments (0) | view blog reactions october 1, 2007 a new leader for a great company i admit it: i’m in no way impartial where technorati is concerned. in my view, technorati is a great company poised to achieve even greater heights. so it gives me great pleasure to tell you that how we get to that next great place is now the job technorati’s newest team member: richard jalichandra, who begins work today as technorati president & chief executive officer. this is a very exciting moment for technorati. as you all know, we’ve been looking for someone to take the ceo mantle since my decision last spring to transition to a role on the board of directors. as technorati moves from its start-up phase into its revenue stage, we wanted to find a seasoned leader experienced in scaling operations like ours. as the board and i searched, we had one goal in mind: finding a highly qualified individual who would also be a great match to our culture and mission. so, as both technorati's founder and now its chairman of the board, i feel confident saying that we've now found and signed that person. i know that richard is really excited to be at the helm of this company – almost as excited as we are to have him. he is our top choice. richard is one of those rare individuals with leadership experience across the media universe: as a client; running several agencies; at several large publishers; and at an advertising network. prior to joining technorati, he held significant leadership roles at exponential / tribal fusion, fox interactive media and ign. most recently, richard worked on a variety of internet media projects as an entrepreneur-in-residence at battery ventures, an advisory board member at myyearbook.com and pixsy, and as an m&a and strategy consultant for several other internet media properties. so, from now on, you’ll be hearing more from richard than from me where technorati is concerned. on a personal note, i want to thank our cfo teresa malo, our vp of engineering dorion carroll, our vp of marketing derek gordon, and, my fellow board members, especially peter hirshberg who has been leading our conversational marketing effort, for their stewardship throughout this transition. i expect great things from this extraordinary team moving forward. stay tuned! technorati tags: ceo, founder, jalichandra, welcome, technorati, transition posted by dsifry at 11:18 am | comments (0) | view blog reactions september 28, 2007 gadgetoff was awesome many thanks to the dubnos, who have turned a small get-together with their friends into a smashing event. i flew in on the redeye, so i was pretty tired, but it was great to see old friends as well as all of the great exhibitors and demonstrators. really well done. here's the photo set. on the way back, i got the shot below from the deck of the boat heading up the hudson. what a beautiful night. and i saw rick smolan, who is a wonderful photographer (and a great guy) and he's going to come meet the small crowd already gathering for tomorrow morning's photowalk across the brooklyn bridge. can't wait! see you all there over at 10am est - don't forget, we're meeting at the walkway entrance is next to the federal court building in brooklyn. there are stairs on cadman plaza east and prospect street or a ramp entrance on johnson and adams streets. you can get there by subway: take the a train to high street. give me a call at 415 846-0232 if you're lost or are wandering around. technorati tags: gadgetoff, photowalk posted by dsifry at 8:50 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions september 27, 2007 photowalk over the brooklyn bridge into manhattan this saturday, 9/29/2007 10am brooklyn bridge, by lab2112 come join me and a bunch of folks who are getting together this saturday for a photowalk across the brookyn bridge from brooklyn into manhattan, and the continued with lunch, and a stroll around the lower east side. saturday looks to be a beautiful day (current forecast says sunny, highs of 75 degrees) so i'm sure we'll have a great time and get lots of great photos. details (including rsvp): http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/269765 where: we're meeting at the walkway entrance is next to the federal court building in brooklyn. there are stairs on cadman plaza east and prospect street or a ramp entrance on johnson and adams streets. you can get there by subway: take the a train to high street. give me a call at 415 846-0232 if you're lost or are wandering around. when: 10am on satuday september 29th. we'll grab some lunch afterwards when we get to the manhattan side, so all in all the walk will probably end around 2pm. what to bring: bring yourself, and whatever you like to record the moment - camera, video camera, or your friendly instamatic! all experience levels are a-ok, from beginner to expert pro. posted by dsifry at 11:06 am | comments (0) | view blog reactions september 23, 2007 sea of carts sometimes you have to work for it, and sometimes photographs just present themselves to you. i captured this yesterday at the local big box store while waiting for it to open. they had all of their shopping carts lined up in long rows fading into the shadow under the awning in the distance. it was also raining, which is unusual for san francisco this time of year. the rain and the soft light made everything look liquid and soft. enjoy... technorati tags: photograph, puppy, rain, sanfrancisco, puppy, photo, shoppingcart, sea posted by dsifry at 8:56 am | comments (2) | view blog reactions september 22, 2007 coming to nyc this friday - manhattan photowalk on 9/29? i'll be flying in to nyc this coming weekend for danny dubno's wonderful gadgetoff conference. if you're coming, drop me a line, i'd love to hook up. i've also got an extra day in nyc on saturday - is anyone up for a morning photowalk in manhattan on saturday? drop me a line at david at sifry dot com, or leave a comment here, and if some folks are up for it, we'll get together and have a fun satuday morning! technorati tags: gadgetoff, manhattan, nyc, photowalk, dubno posted by dsifry at 11:06 pm | comments (0) | view blog reactions september 21, 2007 lunchblogging had a nice lunch with an old friend and colleague, liz westover. lt's nice to get away and explore some restaurants outside of soma/south park, we went to the presidio and had lunch in the place that just opened in the letterman building. not bad (the display was very nice for my salmon salad) but a bit overpriced and difficult to eat - i only had about 4 inches of plate room to pick at my food.:-) the folks at nokia have asked me to come and speak at their upcoming nokiaworld conference, and i'm really looking forward to it. it's in amsterdam on december 4th and 5th. in order to get my head around the new mobile apps that are out there, i've got a new nokia n95 (they sent me one, so all disclaimers apply) and i broke out an old bluetooth keyboard, and i've decided to take this little baby out for a trial run, see what having all this mobile computing power means, what new applications are available, etc. i'll be posting more as i get a better hang of things. posted by dsifry at 4:09 pm | comments (0) | trackback (0) | view blog reactions september 19, 2007 trying out lifeblog with my new nokia n95. it is definitely hard to type using only a keypad... posted by dsifry at 9:37 pm | comments (0) | trackback (0) | view blog reactions september 18, 2007 looking for a good facebook app development tutorial i've been playing around with building facebook apps for a few kicks, and i've got a question for all you fb app developers out there. i've read the wiki, done the step-by-step, gone through the anatomy of an app, installed the footprints app and played around with it, but now i'm looking for a little bit more - are there any good online tutorials that take someone beyond the simple act of writing your first app? any recommendations on sites or groups to join? leave a comment, or drop me an email at david at sifry dot com. thanks in advance! technorati tags: developer, facebook, applications, tutorial posted by dsifry at 10:56 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions september 11, 2007 technorati launches topics technorati just launched a big update to our homepage and new functionality, technorati topics. this is the start of a rollout number of enhancements and new features that have been ongoing since the spring to make technorati more useful and understandable to the everyday person, while also exposing the best of the best of the blogosphere. there's a lot more great stuff to come, it's exciting to see the first fruit of the hard work that has been going on. kudos team! technorati tags: blogosphere, homepage, tech, technorati, topics posted by dsifry at 4:58 am | comments (2) | view blog reactions september 3, 2007 i've been simpson-ized! thanks, simpsonizeme.com... posted by dsifry at 11:33 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions what's the best way from beijing to dalian, china? ok, so i'm a bit of a doofus - i'm all set to go to the world economic forum event in dalian china september 6-8, and i got my flight into and out of beijing all set. i've got my hotel in dailan set up as well. my only problem is that i don't have any arrangements set up to get from beijing to dalian and back. and this is my first time to mainland china. so i'm asking you, my dear blog readers, to help me out - what do you recommend? are there lots of flights from beijing airport to dalian airport (pek-dlc if i got the airport codes right)? should i just wait until i get there and buy a commuter flight ticket? are there good websites i can use while still here in the usa to buy a ticket before i leave? are there trains or other easy land transport? any airlines or transit routes to avoid? how realistic is this, given that i don't speak or read any chinese? oh yeah, i'm leaving tomorrow morning, so i'm on a bit of a deadline. like i said at the beginning of this post, i'm a bit of a doofus. ;-) thanks in advance! btw if you want to meet up in beijing or in dailan, i'll be carrying a gsm phone, +14154122342, drop me an sms. i arrive in beijing at around 2:30pm on september 5th, and i'm leaving the country at 4pm on september 8th. (updated to fix the typo - it's "dalian, not dailan!") technorati tags: beijing, china, dalian, doofus, help, wef2007, worldeconomicforum posted by dsifry at 1:32 pm | comments (3) | view blog reactions september 2, 2007 hats off to martin varsavsky i just saw the nice piece in forbes on my friend (and investor in technorati) martin varsavsky. martin is one of those very special people that i am extremely fortunate to call a friend. by the evening of the very first day that i met him, i felt completely at ease, and felt like i had met a brother, a comrade-in-arms. we've had many visits and conversations since, and i've gotten to know his wonderful family as well. it's a rare thing for me to so quickly bond with anyone since i've become an adult, and martin is one of those few. i'm looking forward to continuing to learn from him. it's great to see him getting recognized, he deserves it! technorati tags: forbes, martinvarsavsky, erikabrown, tech, varsavsky posted by dsifry at 11:53 pm | view blog reactions august 20, 2007 great post on mahalo from rich skrenta rich skrenta's got a great writeup on jason calacanis' startup mahalo. great stuff in there. a snippet: at this point though i'm thinking seo has gotta be dead as a startup business model. it was kind of unknown stuff in 2003 but now the cat's out of the bag. it seems like the last attempt of web 2.0 sites that aren't able to get social adoption is to start flooding the google index with tag landing page spam or a crappy template page for every restaurant in the country. i disagree with what rich wrote about technorati tag pages - most people who come to technorati are coming organically or via blogs, and tag pages are great way to give your readers a real-time aggregation of all the blog posts, videos, photos, etc out there on a given topic, which is a value to your reader. but anyway, that's a relatively minor point on an overall excellent post. go check it out. technorati tags: calacanis, jasoncalacanis, mahalo, puppy, richskrenta, skrenta, tags posted by dsifry at 1:19 pm | comments (1) | view blog reactions august 16, 2007 a change in seasons if there's one thing i've learned during my time as ceo here at technorati is that making tough choices is a daily reality. but some choices are tougher than others, particularly when they involve one's own self. you see, i've made the tough decision to turn the reigns of the company over to other managers at the company. for those of you who follow technorati regularly, you know that we've been conducting a ceo search since spring and that it was just a matter of time before i made a transition. but searches such as these take time, especially in a market as frothy as this one, and i decided that rather than waiting for the process to play out, i would go ahead and transition to the board exclusively, taking on the role of chairman of the board. as of today, teresa malo, cfo, dorion carroll our vice president of engineering and derek gordon, our vice president of marketing, will operate as a committee of the office of the president, jointly focused on the day-to-day management of technorati and achieving some important, very strategic milestones. this committee will report directly to our board of directors. and, of course, peter hirshberg will continue as our "rainmaker-in-chief", leading the continuing development of our conversational marketing initiative, corporate development and public relations. be clear: the board is still conducting a search for the next great leader of this great company. and i'll still be engaged strategically from the point of view of a director on the board. but i strongly believe this is the right team at the right moment to focus the company's efforts and get us to our objectives. i've been doing startups for almost all of my adult life. and i love startups. i love the teams. i love the sense of mission, and the fast innovation. i love building something from an idea - a whiff of air over vocal cords - into a real, concrete business with real customers and a deep and real sense of corporate mission. i feel incredibly lucky to have gotten the opportunity to do that with so many diverse teams and businesses - securemote, linuxcare, sputnik, and technorati. one of the joys is also being a part of becoming a "revenue-stage" company - a company with lots of real customers, where the demands on teams shift away from fundamental blue-sky innovation and focus much more into building great things for customers, reducing expenses, and making the business into much more of a revenue machine. it always strikes me with a bit of sadness as well. technorati is now a revenue stage business - we've been hiring up sales folks, as well as building much more detailed roadmaps and product pipelines. customer-driven needs, pipeline management, operational management, and expense control are now a much bigger part of our life as a company than it was when we were running on a couple of servers in my basement. which brings me to my next big piece of news: today we also say goodbye to eight of our team members. because we'll be focusing our efforts more precisely moving forward, it became clear we needed to adjust our expense structure to be more appropriately aligned with our priorities moving forward. so, we had to make the difficult decision to part ways with eight of our staff members. undertaking this action was gut wrenching - all our team members are greatly valued - but was necessary to ensure the ongoing success and growth of technorati. to all who move on to great new things, let me just say: thank you. i value each of your unique contributions and i'll miss working with you. i'm continually impressed by the strength and depth of our leadership team, and their ability to buttress my operational weaknesses with their verve, passion, and determination. i'm a lucky guy. while i'm turning over the reigns of the company i founded and love so much, i'm not going away. promise. you can continue to keep track of me via my blog at sifry's alerts. check in often: there's lots more to come! technorati tags: gratitude, team, technorati, transitions posted by dsifry at 12:20 pm | comments (11) | view blog reactions august 14, 2007 join the technorati users facebook group. you know you want to... ok, so i'm getting into facebook. well done, mark and friends! so if you use facebook and you use technorati, come join in on the fun! you know deep down you secretly sneak peeks at your link counts. you check your rankings, you just can't pull away. don't feel ashamed of your addiction! embrace it. join the group, share the love. ask questions, get answers, swap tips, recommend great blogs, enjoy. and don't forget to invite all your friends. technorati tags: addiction, facebook, fun, markzuckerberg, love, technorati posted by dsifry at 11:29 pm | view blog reactions search technorati search this blog all blogs who is david sifry? i'm founder and ceo of technorati. i was the cofounder and cto of sputnik and linuxcare, founding board member of linux international, and board member of aotc. i've been around the block a few times. some might call me a serial entrepreneur. a more personal but less-updated site has more information about me - pictures, speeches, software, etc. you can contact me at david-blog@sifry.com. snippets recent entries peoplewatching at the grove cafe, october 2007 loic at his workspace (seesmic) technorati brings back charts and authority filtering to search results pages back from rit. great time, yummy ribs, some photos. heading to rit brooklyn bridge photowalk pictures a new leader for a great company gadgetoff was awesome photowalk over the brooklyn bridge into manhattan this saturday, 9/29/2007 10am sea of carts october 2007 sun mon tue wed thu fri sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       by month october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 may 2006 april 2006 february 2006 january 2006 december 2005 november 2005 october 2005 september 2005 august 2005 july 2005 june 2005 may 2005 april 2005 march 2005 february 2005 january 2005 december 2004 november 2004 october 2004 september 2004 august 2004 july 2004 june 2004 may 2004 april 2004 march 2004 february 2004 january 2004 december 2003 november 2003 october 2003 september 2003 august 2003 july 2003 june 2003 may 2003 april 2003 march 2003 february 2003 january 2003 december 2002 november 2002 october 2002 september 2002 august 2002 july 2002 june 2002 may 2002 april 2002 february 2002 january 2002 syndicate this site (xml) this weblog is licensed under a creative commons license. powered bymovable type 4.01

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