Blog giant Technorati buys custom-news website Personal Bee

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Blog search giant Technorati announced Thursday the purchase of custom-news website Personal Bee, to extend its reach in the blogosphere.

San Francisco-based Technorati, a leading site used to track and index blogs, will acquire Personal Bee's platform to let users tailor news pages to individual tastes and then get automated feedback.

"It is about enabling people to become 'curators,'" Technorati founder David Sifry told AFP.

"Curators" is a Web term for people that revel in being first to pass along news and those perpetually hungry fresh developments, according to Technorati.

"Every family has the person that always passes along jokes or is the first to say 'Did you hear?'" Sifry said. "And there is the everyday person that...

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