interview: David Sifry (Technorati)
Posted on | July 10, 2006 | 1 Comment
Guy Kawasaki asks David Sifry – CEO and founder of Technorati – 10 questions about the blog-searchengine and blogging in general. in case you wonder what distincts a blog-searchengine from classic web-search: while google & co. let their spiders visit each and every website once every 1-3 days (depending on relevancy, i.e. google-rank) to index fresh content, Technorati works the other way round: the moment a blogger hits the ‘publish’-button, the blogging-system notifies (‘pings’) Technorati and other blog-searchengines of the new post. ideally this leads to an index which is always up-to-date.
competitors include Icerocket and Sphere, still Technorati is favoured by most bloggers, probably because of the ranking-algortihm and top-blogs-list.
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August 25th, 2006 @ 8:37 pm
[...] Guy Kawasaki continues his stream of great interviews (see here and here), this time featuring Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. MySQL AB is the company behind open source database-management-system MySQL, which is successfully powering applications at Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, YouTube or Second Life. I found it – positively! – interesting how Mickos recognizes free-riding open-source users as MySQL’s strongest evangelists: At MySQL we LOVE users who never pay us money. They are our evangelists. No marketing could do for us what a passionate MySQL user does when he tells his friends and colleagues about MySQL. Our success is based on having millions of evangelists around the world. Of course, they also help us develop the product and fix bugs. And the few times they say they hate MySQL, that helps us too because complaints usually contain some good suggestion for improvement. [...]