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- These links speak for themselves.
- George W. Bush and the 'politics of fear'
- Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth
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And finally here are a couple of example uses of VoteLinks — where all you do is add a
rel="vote-for"orrel="vote-against"to your<a href="..">hyperlinks to indicate explicitly that you agree/disagree or vote for or against, respectively. - George W. Bush and the 'politics of fear'
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Technorati Open House Party!
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- Technorati's open house party is tonight! There are a few spots left — if you would like to attend, send email to rsvp@technorati.com.
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Technorati Cosmos Referer
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I just added a really tiny new feature to Technorati, inspired somewhat by the W3C Validator's Check referer links that everyone has on their blogs.
Well now you can add a Technorati Cosmos referer link to your blog, and clicking it will automatically do a Technorati Cosmos of your blog (or whatever other page you put the link on).
http://technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html
For example: Technorati Cosmos of this page.
Now it's just that much easier to embed a link to do a Technorati Cosmos of the current page, whether it is your home page, blog, permalink page for a post etc.
Geek note: this feature was written with one line of PHP, until Ian found an edge case for which I had to write a few more lines.
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Lobbycon 2.0, Hackathon reminder, map URLs, and recent standards updates
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I'm here at Web 2.0, participating Lobbycon style, and will probably be continuing to do so over the next few days.
Reminder: tomorrow night Technorati is hosting a Hackathon at our new headquarters. I'm using maps.yahoo.com because Aytek asked me why did I use Mapquest last time I blogged about it. Answer: a) because I just copy and pasted the link from Sifry's post, and b) because Mapquest has cleaner URLs. See for yourself:
- maps.yahoo URL (e.g. what maps.yahoo redirects you to when you click the above "new headquarters" link above):
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result? ed=3drYJ.p_0ToIAFh_2em01o7jJBw-& csz=San+Francisco%2C+CA+94107What is all that
"ed=3drYJ.p..."crap? There is no reason for that junk to be in the URL. Clean it up Yahoo. - Mapquest URL:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp? address=665+3rd+St.& zipcode=94107&submit=Get+MapMuch better. Although I would point out that (emphasis mine):
mapquest.com/ maps/ map.adp... submit=Get+Maplooks like four times as many mentions of "map" as should be needed. Why not just something like:http://mapquest.com/?a=665+3rd+St.&z=94017?or
http://maps.yahoo.com/?a=665+3rd+St.&z=94017?
Getting back to the point. Technorati Hackathon tomorrow night 8pm. Web designers and developers included of course. Spots are almost full, please RSVP. Curious? Unsure? Not in the area? Checkout out the IRC channel irc:irc.freenode.net#technorati.
What will be talking about and coding?
A few things:
- The Technorati API (formerly at http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/TechnoratiApi). We've had an API for retrieving a lot of the same information you can browse at the website for quite some time, and we think there are lot of good potential uses just waiting to be realized.
- Attention.XML. Freshly updated this past weekend just in time for Steve Gillmor's Gnomedex panel, Attention.XML has been completely rebuilt from the ground up to take into account all feedback provided to date. Along with a new spec with a whole lot more detail (including a number of implementation profiles for various different applications and services in the attention ecosystem), we have a new pre-alpha Attention Query API service (was at http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/AttentionQuery) for setting and getting your Attention.XML, as well as some very liberally licensed open source sample code to read and write the foundation of Attention.XML, which brings me to...
- XOXO. Also updated with additional key details, XOXO is ready for implementors to dive into and start doing interesting things with extensible outlines that are also CSS-stylable XHTML and open. Yes of course there is some open source XOXO sample code to get started with.
- Finally, as I mentioned last week, we're incubating and gathering interested early developers of hCalendar and hCard, and with any luck, I'll have an update of those ready for the Hackathon as well.
Did I mention the pizza?
- maps.yahoo URL (e.g. what maps.yahoo redirects you to when you click the above "new headquarters" link above):
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