The first, very common, request, was to claim a blog. The new HubSpot dev team blog, in this case. There is a simple form and workflow for this on Technorati.com, and I imagine many hundreds of people do this every day. Maybe more.
They give you a random string of text, and you have to put it on the front page of your blog. Done in 20 seconds.
Then you click a button that says "I've done it," and they supposedly verify that you have. They say it will take up to an hour. It's taken two days so far, and without any response or update.
I don't see why it should take more than a few seconds: the time to scrape the web site, search for the unique string text they gave me, and update their database. Voila, it's done.
The second request I made was to use their API. We haven't used it until now, but it looks promising, and we'd like to experiment. So I promply sent a nice email to the address specified on their API page. No response, not acknowledgment, nothing so far. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to make some money.
Technorati, can you please move it? ;) Your web serving is nice and fast, but everything else is annoyingly slow.
