Technorati Acquires Personal Bee

San Francisco, CA: Technorati, the world's leading search service for blogs and social media, has announced the acquisition of Personal Bee, a service that allows users to collect and publish news, entertainment and information from the Web. The merger of the two companies represents Technorati's first major acquisition.

Technorati currently tracks more than 72 million blogs and 230 million tagged media objects in real time. The service brings together video, podcasts, photos, music and other media from the Web based on users' interests.

By joining forces, Technorati and Personal Bee hope to better serve consumers and brands, enabling more engagement and participation in global conversations.

"Technorati is driving the understanding of the real-time web," said David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, in a press release. "With the addition of the Personal Bee technology, we are creating tools to facilitate the growth of this Live Web, which is the conversational part of the Internet that is dynamic, rather than static."

Personal Bee is a media platform where users can publish or curate sites around topics. Stories from citizen and mainstream media can be collected and published for interest-based communities.

Personal Bee founder and CEO Ted Shelton said in a press release that the acquisition by Technorati means "we are adding flexible publishing capabilities so that everyone can find conversations, track up-and-coming ideas and stories, and customize the Live Web in any way they like." Mr. Shelton is now Vice President of Business Development at Technorati leading the integration of the Personal Bee platform into the Technorati product offerings.