Goowy, a Flash-based personal information manager and online desktop, now provides its users with a Technorati search widget for quick and easy access to Technorati's URL, tag, and Blog Finder search direct from Goowy desktop.
Existing Goowy users can add a Technorati widget to their desktop by selecting "Show Technorati" from the "Manage Widgets" option.
We now offer the ability to retrieve the top tags used by an individual blog using the BlogPostTags API call.
Have you ever wanted to create a personalized tag cloud for you and your friends? Now you can! Just let us know the URL of the blog you are interested in and we will return a list of up to 100 top post tags including the total number of posts using each tag.
Christian Stocker felt a sense of nationalist pride last weekend and created a Swiss Technorati Top 100. Christian based his list on a directory of Swiss weblogs maintained by the local community and retrieves information about each blog such as inbound links, sources, and rank on a daily basis. You can read more about Christian's work on his custom Top 100 list on his weblog.
Technorati changed its URL structure for search pages as part of our redesign. If your code references a Technorati search page as a final destination you may want to update your links to provide faster responses for your users.
Search
Technorati's search URLs begin with /search/ followed by your URL-encoded query.
You can also add advanced operators after your search query such as restricting a search to one particular weblog.
Technorati still supports the old /cosmos/ links through redirects but it's best to avoid the extra roundtrips and simply link to the final destination in your code.
Did you know that Technorati cites its sources within a watchlist? It's true.
Technorati watchlists help users track the topics they care about. Many topics of interest have one or more authors of particular interest and you may want to every post from the author instead of just your watchlist matches. Technorati provides you with all the information necessary to subscribe to these different watchlist sources.
<source url="http://technorati.com/developers/
blog/index.xml">Technorati Developer Blog</source>
The source element descibes both the RSS URL and the name of the originating site. If your tool exposes the source element you have the ability to discover more great authors around the topics you care about.
Niall Kennedy
on October 27, 2005.
Tags: Interfaces