XHTML friends suddenly had a lot a of traffic… Not sure where from though. But when I checked today the number of sites added jumped from 900 to 1100 and the number of queued sites went from 200 to 1000! I’m making it crawl them all now.
I think the most useful feature for helping propagate XFN would be a list of sites with incoming links but no outgoing links. i.e. sites that should add XFN attributes to their links :)
Of course the graphics should also actually display different relationships and stuff but that’s just prettyness :P
I used JavaScript once succesfully and it goes to my head…
I read a book on doing XML stuff with JavaScript and thought “Very clever. But Why?”. Well apparently it’s taking off. It’s how Google Maps works.
And if you didn’t know (I didn’t; reading blogs is actually helping me) Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
It would mean you’d just drag the map to scroll in Galaxia… :D
In hindsight. No. Too much effort and too many other things I need to do…
I was over at XHTML Friends looking at the info for this site and noticed dance ads. At first I didn’t think anything of it, I see dance ads all over this page. But thenof course it occurred to me there is not a single mention of dancing on that page. It gets better when you realise there isn’t even a direct link from that site to this site.
I was ready to put it down to coincidence, but noticed ads relevent to the sites I was listing on their pages…
That is very clever :)
By the way,the site in question doesn’t even need to be displaying Google Adsense themselves (so it’s not even cached ads either; they’re being gnereated live for my site about another site).
Did you know some blogs contain ICBM data? That (as I’ve now discovered) is a euphemism for latitude/longitude. Well XHTML Friends now displays a map for sites that provide the data :)
I added some nifty (and I mean nifty) Javascript to XHTML Friends and it bloody worked! It works in FireFox and IE!
I think http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/page/http://photomatt.net is the most dramatic example.
Indexes or indices? If this was anything but an article on databases I’d use indices. Anyway, XHTML Friends was taking about 3 minutes to load a page. I added three indexes to two tables and now it takes a few seconds. I have never seen such a speed increase come from adding indexes to a database. So let this be a lesson to me…
Wohoo! I’ve just “finished” the XFN site. Go take a look :) XHTML Friends
Well if you have a URL you want crawled go to http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/crawl.php.
If you want to have a look at the pages already there in a nice graphical network display, go to http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/image.php.
This displays 26 random sites and the links between them. If you click on a site it “holds” it so subsequent requests always contain this site (this way you can slowly buildup an image of sites that actually link to each other).
XFN stands for XML Friends Network. You basically define human relationships between webpage authors by adding an extra atribute to links.
Well I decded to write a nice XFN crawler/search engine thingy. The crawler part works. I also decided to do a nice graphical representation of the links between sites.
Red is “crush”, blue is “met” and green is “friend” (just three properties I picked at random).