Technorati has now reached over 26 million blogs.
What does this mean? I have no idea. Depends how much you're personally invested in the whole blogging thing working out.
Posted by hugh macleod at January 30, 2006 1:08 PM | TrackBackOnly 26 million?
Someone has to edit this mess. Thank you to the bloggies.com for making a start.
Posted by: Joel at January 30, 2006 5:32 PMWow, that's like almost 20% of the blogosphere. Hurray!
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin at January 30, 2006 10:07 PMIt means nothing, of course, except to the David Sifry's.
Posted by: MarkN at January 30, 2006 11:36 PMNot sure if I agree, MarkN. I think the larger the blogosphere becomes, the more opportunity people will have to exploit it. That's certainly been true for me...
Posted by: hugh macleod at January 31, 2006 12:48 AMWell, you're totally in the Sifry millieu - "changed" in the Johnnie Moore sense of the word. You can't *not* think of ways to exploit blogs.
I see opportunity in exploiting the mechanisms and methodology employed by blogs in other areas of endeavor. Insofar as 26 million+ blogs is the crucible for better and ever more sophisticated how-to, I'm all for it too.
Posted by: MarkN at January 31, 2006 2:23 AMI've always wondered about sites like Technorati and eBay, and how far they can go:
In his paper, "Strategy and the Internet," Porter (2001) argued that network effects do not present first movers with a "winner-take-all" result as network effects are subject to a self-limiting mechanism:
"A particular product or service first attracts the customers whose needs it best needs. As penetration grows, however, it will tend to become less effective in meeting the needs of the remaining customers in the market, providing an opening for competitors with different offerings." (p. 68 and p. 69)