Tuesday saw the launch of the latest tool from Technorati – Favorites. Independent of any other watchlists you already have this new Favorites feature allows you to track up to 50 blogs by name and display the entries in the listing style so common elsewhere on the site. Derek Powazek announces the launch on the Technorati blog.
Its interesting, but only mildly useful to someone who already is quite comfortable tracking specific sites in another feed reader. I’m curious what the longer term implications are with the information gleaned from who gets favorited on the authority system also recently unveiled.
The thing that they could do to make it (and the other Technorati features) more useful to me is to come up with a Newsvine like “Watchlist” page that includes all of the listings from my various favorites, watchlisted tags, my own blogs and anything else I mark in some way presented in an easy to skim format. Pull it all into one starting point so I don’t have to go chasing it down with a dozen or so clicks. More often then not I don’t end up using things like my watched tags for just this reason.
All that said I’ve gone and setup a few blogs on my favorites list just to try it out. Works great and I’m glad it offers combined results unlike the watchlist. One thing that bothered me a little was that it was quite easy to get an incorrect address added to my favorites when not entering the full address to a blog in the “Add a blog URL to your Favorites” field. When entering http://domscripting.com/ and http://domscripting.com/blog both take without questioning that there isn’t a ‘blog’ at one. Might just need another step to say “did we find the right blog, if so, add it”. But that is certainly a mild gripe.
It should be no surprise where my favorites can be found, loaded with 15 blogs I enjoy reading.
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