gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

it's like google for bloggers in real time

Technorati is just about my fave thing on the internet. What is it? Well, the best definition I can think of is, "It's like Google for bloggers in real time."

Basically it tells you what people are saying about yours' or anybody else's blog RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 'since whenever'.

What are other blogs saying about gapingvoid at the moment? Go to my "fave sites" on the homepage sidebar, click the wee blue voice-bubble icon next to "Technorati Profile" and find out. Or type in the URL of another blog and find out what kind of buzz it's getting. You get the idea.

I don't even look at my stats anymore. Technorati gives me a much better picture of whether what I'm doing is working or not.

Three questions keep dogging me:

1. How is it going to make money?

2. How will it survive, once Google, Microsoft or whoever decides to rip them off? They will, you know they will.

3. The first two questions being so obvious, I'm assuming there's something in their biz plan they're not telling us. Some trick they've got up their sleeve that they don't want their competition to find out about (for very good reasons). What could it be?

Anyone got any insight?

UPDATE: Andy Smith answers some of my questions here.

Posted by hugh macleod at May 23, 2004 4:17 PM | TrackBack