Technorati - WTF???
Despite that very interesting acronym, it does not in fact stand for what you may be thinking. Instead of What the F**K, Technorati’s latest creation actually stands for “Wheres the Fire” and is already being labeled a Digg clone by some.
Technorati is already known as a staple in the blogging community, and tracks millions of blogs already. The tagging feature of Technorati is one that many use as well, and in my opinion is the best thing Technorati has going for it at this point. They launched WTF just a couple days ago, and I guess it wasnt quite ready since it was taken down and worked on a bit not long after. Its been re-unvieled since and the more we look at it, the more it does seem like a Digg clone.
Technorati allows users to submit stories to the WTF section of thier site, other users can then vote for the stories that they determine to be “on fire” or most popular and those stories are bumped to the front page. Yeah, Digg kinda has that going already…
We actually just gave it a test run with an article from Paul Tech, one of our blogs, and well, its almost a carbon copy of the Digg experience, but Im guessing without the traffic benefits. Time will tell and Ill report back on the experiment.
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February 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
In my experience Digg will give you a short burst of traffic unless
you have a wide ring of friends. Stumble is far superior in traffic
generation.