A scant few days after Technorati started searching MySpace blogs they now are beginning to track other social networks too, at least superficially. They have added a list of the most blogged Youtube.com movies from the past 48 hours.
Mark Cuban says that Ice Rocket has been tracking the social networks for months and that this is going to be essential for businesses. I could not agree more. The problem is that the total universe of these galaxies is expanding so fast there's really no one yet scaling to the full challenge. For example, I noticed that Technorati dropped results from del.icio.us from its tag pages, but kept ties to Furl. If you want to search digg, where a lot of memes/blogstorms start, you need to hit the site directly. (By the way, digg is the 18th most referenced site by bloggers, according to URLfan, a terrific new tool.)
There's gold to be had for the provider that can scale to include every major social network. I would bank on folks like Gada.be. Expect Google to make moves here as well. There's a much bigger picture here than just blogs.
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