Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search paradigm what Twitter Search is now, but has limped along for the last couple of years - plagued by server downtime, broken links, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Blog Search’s rise and…

Left-of-center political news blog TalkingPointsMemo has received its first outside money, from Marc Andreessen and other angel investors, according to TC. The amount is small, and pegged between $500K to $1 million. The investment from Andreessen, his second in a blog network (the first being Business Insider), is a personal…

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To add to the legend of Twitter’s service problems: The day the microblogging site accidentally suspended some users’ accounts. After multiple reports on Twitter and elsewhere that accounts had been suspended for seemingly no reason, Twitter acknowledged the problem on its status page late Sunday evening (via Mashable): “We regret…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would begin to index some Tweets in real-time—becoming the first major search engine to do so. In a post on the Bing community blog, Microsoft’s Sean Suchter said that starting later today the company would highlight new Tweets from…

Update: And lo behold: with 30 minutes of launching, the fanboys brought down the site. It is unreachable as of 11:30 AM PST. Delicious irony here. The founders of two of the biggest and most well known gadget sites Engadget and Gizmodo have finally launched their gadget site, appropriately titled…

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Posterous, a startup that lets people blog via e-mail, has purchased Slinkset, which makes it easier for users to set up Digg-like social news sites. In a blog post, Posterous co-founder Garry Tan says that “Slinkset will remain online, and we’ll be working on some crazy awesome stuff to bring…

Each month, a few additional details about Twitter’s plans to make money trickle out, although so far nothing has come from any of them. The latest possibility: Twitter board member Todd Chaffee tells the NYT that the company could make money from e-commerce. He notes that many people are already…

New funding may be sluggish, but there’s at least one category that investors are more than happy to pour money into: Twitter-related startups. On its blog today (via Silicon Alley Insider), startup site ChubbyBrain tallies up the action and finds that to date, $23 million has been put into 11…

One way to get some almost uninterrupted time with peripatetic Arianna Huffington: talk to her while she’s on jury duty, waiting to be picked. (I say almost because she has two cell phones and whichever one she’s not on is likely to ring.) We spoke Monday afternoon as news was…

As we reported earlier, Eric Hippeau is switching roles at the Huffington Post from board member to CEO. He’ll still be on the board but as the person responsible for day-to-day operations, not the adviser, for the first time since he left as chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis in 2000.…

The Huffington Post, which has achieved great popularity but is still looking for the profit to match, is getting its second CEO in as many years, paidContent has learned. Betsy Morgan, who joined the high-profile media startup in late 2007, is being replaced by Eric Hippeau (pictured, right), a managing…

As a publisher, getting on the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. We should know—paidContent was among the sites included in the Kindle Store when the first gen device launched in 2007. But bloggers who want a shot at incremental subscription income by self-publishing their RSS feeds through…

Mike Arrington said months ago that the TechCrunch-Federated Media marriage was in trouble—he called it a “love/hate relationship”—and now he says it can’t be saved. TechCrunch is leaving the ad network founded by John Battelle (pictured, right) because, according to Arrington in a TC post, “we’re finally getting big enough…

Twitter may be bringing in millions of new users every month—but it is struggling to keep them. Nielsen Online said Tuesday that Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is now a rather measly 40 percent. (It’s been at…

Updated Some 300 business undergrads and MBA students at Washington University in St. Louis were treated to the Barry Diller show Monday afternoon, when the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chairman and CEO was interviewed for the USA Today CEO Forum series by the paper’s senior media reporter David Lieberman. After the…