Thursday, February 26, 2009

Thing 3: Finally, Technorati and GoogleReader

Oh man I just lost my whole post!! :( (Does anyone know how to retrieve a lost post? I got an error message and went back and the title was there but the content was gone) Here is an abbreviated answer, the first one was much more comprehensive, sorry.
1. I explored Technorati and GoogleReader
2. I searched for "justicia" and got over 35,000 hits on Technorati. It gave me the first 10 hits with a brief summary and also links to the top 4 videos all on the first page. It gave me options to page forward through the hits. All of the first 10 hits were foreign language links. Googlereader gave me 5 hits. That's it. I tried to expand the search using "expand" and "list" but these were for other functions that related to the five hits. It seems weird that there were only five hits. They were also foreign language with summaries and links, the links were in english I believe.
3. Technorati features: Very professional looking. Has different pages for different subjects. When you go into a subject it gives you a whole page of links with short summaries. It breaks the subject into top blogs by attention and top news stories by attention. Although it manages to put an enormous amount of content on the page, they organize so that it is easy to use. GoogleReader looks more like a socialnetworking site. It has ways to organize "your stuff" under a link by that name. You can share your blogs with friends and search your blogs my categories that you set up. Even though the content onthe page is small it is harder to figure out the organization and less user friendly.

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