It was reported on April 11th 2007 by Dave Sifry that Technorati had their first acquisition. David Sifry, the Founder & CEO of Technorati is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. Before founding Technorati, Dave was cofounder and CTO of Sputnik, and cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and VP of Engineering. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dave lectures on everything from wireless spectrum policy and Wi-Fi, to weblogs and open-source software. In a post on Technorati’s official blog, Sifry mentions, “Technorati has completed our first major acquisition, a great company called Personal Bee.” Sifry describes Personal Bee as a media collection platform that enables people to curate and publish their own personal sites around topics, issues, or anything they choose. “It’s all about democratizing the media. Social media has always been social for the people creating it, and now the people consuming it will get to join the fun.”, says Sifry. Personal Bee founder Ted Shelton says, “While the timing wasn’t right then for us to bring these ideas to Technorati, Dave and I maintained a friendship and communication over the 9 months that we built the first beta version of Personal Bee. And after we launched that beta, in September of last year, Dave and I agreed that we should have another conversation about bringing the two companies together.” and now we have the two working together as a pair. Sifry comments in his post,  “Ted Shelton will be joining the Technorati team as our VP of Business Development and he’ll have an important role helping to bring the two technology platforms together.”

What is in store for the future of Technorati?

I guess really, the sky is the limit for Technorati. Dave Sifry touches on Technorati and what the future holds: “Let me summarize by saying that Personal Bee is going to add some very powerful and engaging social publishing features to Technorati.com. And, the Bee platform will help expand Technorati’s Conversational Marketing System, our product that helps brands to engage their audience and enter the global conversation.” I guess only time will tell but it is nice to see Technorati make moves in their building blocks to better serve the community. Technorati could use a facelift and perhaps expanding and adding additional features to the end user is just what Technorati needs. Technorati who is currently tracking 75.2 million blogs, is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. They search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.” The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second. And here we have Technorati, trying to piece it all together. And so far, in my opinion, they are doing a damn good job doing it.