Social networking

I’ve been playing around with technorati and del.icio.us for a bit to basically see what it’s all about.

I’m probably late getting involved in these things but it’s only since I started blogging in April that I’ve taken a real interest in such sites. Of course, I’ve read stacks of advice stating that affiliates should blog about topics that they have a financial interest in to promote their own sites. Actually, thats not really my motivation…I’ve got an idea for a site that I’ve had for quite some time and this idea will need to incorporate aspects of social networking and web 2.0.

technorati

technorati is a real-time search engine for blogs or the blogosphere as they call it. You can create a free account and claim your own blog, submitting it so that other bloggers and searchers can find yours. Additionally, when you blog you can include tags that link to technorati and see what other bloggers are saying about that tag. If you use blogger then everytime you post, blogger updates weblogs which in turn is picked-up by technorati (and I guess thats why tagging your post makes sense…technorati users interested in that tag will pick your post up).

Your blogs are automatically ranked too - getting links from other bloggers will improve your ranking (if that matters to you of course)

There’s a simple bit of javascript to add to your blog template to enable searches on your blog too.

First impressions? The tags are great…I’ve already spent hours visiting new blogs! But is there any easy way (rather than dipping in to the html) of adding tags to the bottom of your blog post?

del.icio.us

What a curious domain name! Here you can create a free account and then start to bookmark sites that are of interest to you (and potentially others) and not only bookmark them but apply tags to them too. For instance, I’ve tagged this blog as affiliate_blogs and bookmarked it along with some other related blogs in my favourites. So, with everyone bookmarking and tagging their favourites sites, blogs, etc you can then share other peoples favourites. I downloaded the firefox plugin to ease the process of bookmarking and tagging sites when I find them.

First impressions? It’s pretty cool.

technorati tags: Social Networking technorati delicious