Technorati turns into an online newsreader - sorta 0
Today I went to Technorati to search for something and noticed a new interface tweak - apart from the recently introduced authority filter, Technorati now offers you to search in either all blogs or your favourite blogs. To use this feature, you have to create an account with Technorati and add some blogs to your favourites. Reminds of an online newsreader, doesn’t it? Not exactly, though. It has its god points as well as drawbacks, and the range of opinions across the Blogosphere about this new feature goes from enthusiastic approval to sharp criticism. Thatedeguy posts a more detailed review of Technorati’s favourites complaining about the limits Technorati sets on people’s favourites. The number of blogs you can save is limited to 50. Meanwhile, TDavid at MakeYouGoHmm says:
Too bad it is only blogs though and doesn’t include RSS feeds.
Scoble has already a button for adding his blog to people’s Technorati favourites in place. And as we have an option to see other people’s lists of favourite blogs, David Sifry’s list being featured most prominently in the sidebar, Stowe Boyd talks about the future social dimension.
So looks like what we get is a mixture of a blog search engine, a newsreader and a social bookmarking service. Pretty wide area to cover, let’s see how it works out for Technorati and what the future of all these functional innovations will be.