{"id":1490,"date":"2007-08-07T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:03:25","slug":"technorati_cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Technorati Continues To Blow Chunks"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m interested in what you folks’ experience has been with Technorati. Mine is best summed up in the headline.<\/p>\n

It seems to be that as they build a richer, more finished site, it becomes less and less functional – both because of what appears to be sheer incompetence, and worse – by design.<\/p>\n

Some cases in point:<\/p>\n

I use a Treo 650. Technorati Mobile – http:\/\/mobile.technorati.com<\/a> – brings up a search box, a list of top searches this hour, and a “what’s happening on the web right now in:” and a list of stories that are highly linked.<\/p>\n

If I fill in the search block, and click on “Search”:, you’d expect to get a set of Technorati search results. Go try it<\/a> and see what happens. Nothing. Nothing has happened for weeks, if not months. Has anyone at Technorati even bothered to look?<\/b>And the technical geniuses at Technorati decided to redo their UI to a level of desigm matching their technical acumen.<\/p>\n

There’s a basic rule of good Information Architecture that I swear by:<\/p>\n

1) The same control always does the same thing.<\/p>\n

2) I ought to be able to get to the underlying data without a PhD is user interface design.<\/p>\n

Take a look at this:<\/p>\n

\"Technorati%20Overlay.JPG\"<\/p>\n

Technorati breaks Rule 1 on the most commonly-used controls on their site; and worse, when they do break the rule, there is flatly no way to get to the targeted post, and the primary control doesn’t take me to the blog, but to the Technorati page about<\/b> the blog.<\/p>\n

Anyone out there want to fund a small startup? Is there a startup out there I can invest in? I’m just effing tired of this and if we have to build something better to have a tool that works, that’s what we need to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal is unhappy – very unhappy – with Technorati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}