Posts tagged Technorati
Services_Technorati 0.6.0
Apr 17th
Thanks to the proof-reading assistance of Ryan, this latest version of Services_Technorati should now comply with the PEAR coding standards, so I’ve moved it to alpha status, and upped the version number.
Next up will be writing some unit tests for the module. After the fact, I know, but an important step. Getting a CVS or SVN repository up and running is also high up the list. And it’s probably time to return some attention to a project where I’ll be using this module to step-up the real-world testing.
UPDATE: The module is now in the PEAR/PHP CVS repository, right here.
Services_Technorati 0.5.6
Apr 16th
A couple of bug reports reminded me that it was time for another release of Services_Technorati. This release fixes a typo and adds some important checks on the return value of $this->_checkOptions()
I’m hoping to finish the last few coding standards issues this week so I can move the package up to alpha status. There’s still no word from Technorati about fixes to their attention.XML support, so I’m not inclined to hold up the package’s release based on that.
Services_Technorati 0.5.5
Apr 5th
Voting was complete on my Technorati package a couple of weeks back, but I’ve been waiting to announce it until I was able to upload an initial version to PEAR. The package was approved today, and you can now find version 0.5.5 at the PEAR website.
It’s currently set to ‘devel’ so to install it from the command line you’ll need to use:
% pear install Services_Technorati-devel
Changes in the latest release mostly arise from voters’ suggestions, with the key one being the change of a number of method names to remove the superfluous word ‘query.’ I’ll hopefully be moving it out of ‘devel’ soon, probably once I’ve made the final few tweaks to bring it in line with the PEAR Coding Standards and/or when Technorati finish overhauling the attention.XML API.
As usual, you can also read about the package here.
Services_Technorati 0.5.4
Mar 21st
I just made another round of changes to Services_Technorati. As well as a few maintenance tasks, I made it more explicit that the caching is optional, added a factory method, and worked in support for the new TopTags API call.
The Attention.XML support is still not working as hoped. Niall Kennedy (Technorati’s Community Manager) assures me that they will be working on it at their end as soon as possible, so I’ll wait for that before doing any more work there.
With that one proviso, the package seems ready to go, so I’ve initiated the Call For Votes on the PEAR site.
Technorati Related Tags
Mar 5th
Jason DeFilippo posts that Technorati have now added a ‘related tags’ feature. If you search for, say webservices you’ll see related entries for ‘web’, ‘google’, ’soap’, ‘blogs’ and ‘links’. Presumably the relationships are drawn by monitoring where tags have appeared together in pages.
This is a big step forward in technorati’s support for folksonomies. The usefulness of tags are considerably increased when you can draw out a list of ’similar’ terms, and that option has certainly been one of my favourite features of del.icio.us. What I’d love to see technorati add next would be support for searching by multiple tags, and perhaps access to the relationships using the API. The latter would allow those of us thinking of building sites with user submissions organised using folksonomies to access a broader range of data when offering relational links, making our local folksonomy support more useful ‘out of the box.’