Technorati Leadership Changes: CEO and Co-Founder, David Sifry and 8 Others Out
In a blog post titled, “A Change in Seasons,” Technorati CEO and Founder, David Sifry, announced that he is leaving the company.
Technorati will still operate as an weblog search/blogosphere buzz meter with:
+ Thresa Malo, CFO,
+ Dorion Carroll, Vice President of Engineering
+ Derek Gordon, Vice President of Marketing
operating as a group to form a committee named, “Office of the President.”
Sifry goes on to say that Peter Hirshberg is staying with the company but eight other Technorati employees are leaving the company.
Technorati can be accessed at: http://www.technorati.com
Of course, several other search tools focusing on blogs and feeds exist including:
+ Ask/Bloglines Search*
Same database, different interfaces. One thing many people like about the Ask.com interface is that each entry allows the searcher to subscribe to the feed using one of many aggregators like Google Reader and My Yahoo or post the article directly from the results page to one of many services including digg, del.icio.us, etc. Another feature is that you can sort by popularity. This takes many metrics into account including how many subscribers the feed has via Bloglines. It can be a useful way of removing spam and splogs.
* Gary is Director of Online Info Resources at Ask.com
+ BlogPulse
From Nielsen/Buzzmetrics. Both a search engine and tools to measure buzz.
+ IceRocket
Included here is the IceRocket Blog Tracker.
+ Feedster
We blogged about it on June 28th. Also worth mentioning that Feedster, an early blog/feed engine (2003) lost some of their leadership along the way. In a three month period in 2005, both their CEO and CTO/Co-Founder left. Here’s a brief Feedster timeline.
Timeline:
+ 1/2007: Co-Founder, François Schiettecatte, leaves Feedster
+ 7/2006: Feedster Gets a New President and VC From Selby Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and Mitsui & Co.
+ 9/2005: Scott Rafer Leaves Feedster (via SEW)
Here’s his goodbye post.
++ Rafer is now at a ResourceShelf favorite resource, WINKsite and blogs here.
++ 12/2005: Scott Johnson, Feedster Co-Founder and CTO Leaves Company (via Gigaom)
Johnson’s bio from 2005 is available here.
See Also: Death of Blog Search Part 2 – Sifry Leaves Technorati (via David Dalka)
Don’t Forget Using Message Boards and Forums (search/track buzz) Can Still Be VERY Useful
See Boardreader and BoardTracker.
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