Technorati Replaces User Data With Advertising
Blogging, SaaS, Software April 25th, 2007
Here’s the Technorati homepage. If you’re signed in, your blog’s basic stats would appear at the upper right corner, which is now covered occupied by advertising:
It’s frustrating enough to see ads hide actual content on Yahoo..etc, but normally there’s a way to click and close it. Not this one. This is a solid ad, you read it or leave it, it won’t go away. So where’s the account data? Your guess is as good as mine … it’s gone! You can randomly click around, and find it after a few clicks via Favorites, Ping ..etc – but the most important information, along with your inbound links is completely missing from the Front Page.
Perhaps Technorati are just as confused as I am… the WTF button on the left takes on a new (old) meaning…
Update (4/25): Apparently it was a bug, Technorati fixed it. Kudos for responding fast! At the same time…I know it’s “release often, release early” but I didn’t think testing became a 100% user function…
Zoli Erdos
Click on your profile to see your stats.
It’s not “covered” by the ad… it’s been replaced by the ad.
From Zedo.com… I don’t see it thanks for Ad Block Plus and Firefox. all I see is the “Advertise on Technorati” link.
Thanks, that was exactly my point, sorry if I didn’t make it clear enough: that unlike Yahoo.. et al, you don’t get to just close the ad then see your content – it’s gone!
That’s the most important piece of Technorati information, now hidden on secondary pages. This has to be an joke.
Zoli, we pushed a new release out yesterday which had a bug that broke the module on the home page for a bit. The “Your Blogs” feature is back in action.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Dorion