Back when I first started blogging one of the first things that I did, like a great many bloggers, was sign up with Technorati and made sure my badge was on the blog to proudly let everyone know where I was in the great Technorati rankings. There wasn’t a weekend that didn’t go by where there wasn’t some bitchmeme going on that involved our place in those rankings.
It was just about everyone’s objective to be a part of the Technorati A-List, or as it was also known The Technorati 100. They were also one of the first web services to have a developer API which gave rise to fun uses of our data stored on the Technorati servers.
Over the last few years though the company has morphed into … well the jury is still out on that. However I only just found out via another blog that Technorati has dropped their developer API and other than the notice (above graphic) there is no word as to when – or if – it will be coming back.
Here’s the thing though. Technorati was a company who at one time only had to sneeze in order to be written up by hundreds of bloggers. Now we find out about a major event at the company through one or two posts, and really … no-one seems to care at all.
What a shame.
