Ok I've investigated Technorati and read the latest blogs on iPhone - which has convinced me to upgrade my existing ipod and mobile into an iphone. Also I had a first look at Boing Boing which I really like as a social networking tool .... nice work.
Back to Technorati soon - now, checkout this snip:
" Welcome to Technorati
Currently tracking 92.6 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.
Technorati Media Contact
Jeff Koo
415-321-1866
jeff@sparkpr.com "
I looked up Del.icio.us on Wikipedia to get a definition of social book marking / tagging, thus
"The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!."
Then I found this interesting link which shows how MIT is using del.icio.us for Virtual Reference - interesting link:
MIT Libraries Virtual Reference
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