We’re still vacationing, but I snatched a few minutes to briefly scan the RSS aggregator and (manually) update the Blogcompare stats.

Earlier in the week it seems that Technorati was getting bashed again. Doc Searls summarizes the bashing which seem to have been precipitated by some inopportune pitching during a panel discussion.

It’s too bad Technorati hasn’t been bought by Yahoo, Google or Microsoft and yet I’m wondering if that wasn’t the Technorati gameplan all along? They take VC funding and build up a semi-working prototype and hope to be purchased by a bigger fish and make the investors fat. The problem with this type of strategy — and it’s merely musing aloud, I have no insider knowledge — is that if the service in question isn’t firing on all cylinders (and one could argue that Technorati never has fired on all cylinders) it won’t be attractive to the bigger fish. I see lots of people talking about Bloglines citations and Blogpulse. Maybe when we get back home I’ll look into seeing if either of those services offer an API. Or perhaps somebody in the comments will clue me in before we get back.

This is post #12 in the vacation 2005 series and finally I have enough posts so that somebody will win the Blog is Right contest. Regular blogging should return in the not too distant future. Alrighty, the kids are calling and it’s time to get back on the road to our next vacation destination.

tag: vacation2005

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