The the new home page has five main parts: search, videos, blogs, music and a tag cloud–a very interesting way to divide up how the world is now online. Dave Sifry, Technorati Founder and CEO tells us the new design uses the wisdom of crowds to mirror ourselves:

As I’ve blogged about before, the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations that were most interesting to them, today they are increasingly coming to our site to get the 360 degree context of the Live Web - blogs of course, but also user-generated video, photos, podcasts, music, games and more. They want all the good stuff out there, all in real-time, and we’re using the power of 80 million bloggers to help organize it and make it fun to browse; using the wisdom of crowds as a mirror on ourselves. . . .

This is being facilitated by the phenomenon of tags and tagging, which helps to unify and organize the rapidly expanding world of user-generated media. As more and more publishing tools support the use of tags, the better we are able to assemble collections of social media based on the interests of our users. . . .

Via Joi Ito

The the new home page has five main parts: search, videos, blogs, music and a tag cloud–a very interesting way to divide up how the world is now online. Dave Sifry, Technorati Founder and CEO tells us the new design uses the wisdom of crowds to mirror ourselves:
As I’ve blogged about before, the world [...]