Hello.com takes the lead of the Technorati Top 100, with over 700,000 links from 100,000 sources, more than 10 times more than its nearest competitor. Hello.com is the new picture sharing service from Google, Blogger, and Picasa, designed to compete with Flickr:

Funny how a company that centralizes a service (like Blogger, Google) can push a new service to the top of any list–including search engine results–just by having their properties link to that new service…