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The explosion of people with their own websites (often called ‘blogs) has gone hand in hand with the rise of automated aggregation systems, which attempt to filter out the irrelevant majority so that the end user sees more content that is useful. The digital equivalent of separating the wheat from the chaff.

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Personal Bee’s founder will come in as VP of business development at Technorati; we’re not sure whether the value of the target was in engineering, where Technorati’s been weak. Any significance beyond that? One person familiar with Personal Bee says Technorati — which has in the past offered brand-tracking to marketers, ego-surfing to bloggers and search to ordinary users — plans now to build themed news pages in the style of Techmeme. Read the more »

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Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs.

A few years ago, Web search was revolutionized by a simple but profound idea — that the relevance of a site can be determined by the number of other sites that link to it, and thus consider it ‘important.’ In the world of blogs, hyperlinks are even more significant, since bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, which creates the sense of timeliness and connectedness one would have in a conversation. So Technorati tracks the number of links, and the perceived relevance of blogs, as well as the real-time nature of blogging.

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According to a study on Website Analytics vs. Competitive Intelligence Metrics done by SEOMoz last October 2006 the best predictors of traffic to one’s website are:1. Number of Technorati Links (0.74)
2. SEOmoz Page Strength (0.60)

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Yahoo Pipes is “a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment”. In Unix, a pipe (or a pipeline) is “a set of processes chained by their standard streams, so that the output of each process feeds directly as input of the next one”.

Yahoo created a service that lets you treat feeds like some standard text files.

How to create a pipe

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