Thursday, April 3, 2008

Blogger adds bloggroll

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Blogger in draft added 2 new features today: a blogroll page element, and post scheduling. Post scheduling is pretty useful, you can write up your post, set the time (in the future) that you want it to post, and Blogger will do it automatically. The second feature, a blogroll, I would like a lot more if it was done better. The main thing I like about it is that it integrates with Google Reader so if I'm linking to my friend's blogs, I just scroll to my 'Friends' Tag and add them. The thing I don't like however is that it does not support XFN or FOAF therefore not getting picked up by the SocialGraph API. For example, if I linked to my girlfriend's blog, the blogroll just lists this as

Maybe-Not

A better link, for example from a wordpress blogroll would look something like
Maybe-Not<

...and get picked up but the SocialGraph as having a relationship to me. Blogger is great and I love using it, but the features of wordpress are blowing it out of the water.

6 comments:

Massagem said...

Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is very interesting, congratulations :-). I will add in my blogroll =). If possible gives a last there on my blog, it is about the Massagem, I hope you enjoy. The address is http://massagem-brasil.blogspot.com. A hug.

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Laura said...

Coolness.

Thanks for the shout-out, my friend sweetheart.

Anonymous said...

Hi I got a message on my blog today:

Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is very interesting, congratulations :-). I will add in my blogroll =). If possible gives a last there on my blog, it is about the Massagem, I hope you enjoy. The address is http://massagem-brasil.blogspot.com. A hug.

which seems not dissimilar to yours, went to look on this blog 'cos it was a bit strange, the broken english and the fact someone was telling me they liked my blog, don't get me wrong I'm sure your blog is fine and people like it, but mine isn't and nobody does. So, anyway I had a look on the blog which has only one page and 47 comments, which is quite good, but most of these are people thanking the site for putting their site on the blogroll, and it seems a bit odd, had a look on the blog, thought I'd find some info about the administrator but there is none and no links either, found your blog by copying the address into google, probably not dodgy but you never know.

Elizabeth Robillard said...

Hello, thanks for this information, I still can't figure out what a 'ping list' is - help?

Tim Broder said...

A ping list is a list that you ping or send a message to when you add a new post. It lets various sites know your blog has been updated. Check out this ping tool http://pingoat.com/