"Discussion" links in addition to related
bflora - July 17, 2008 - 07:13
| Project: | Memetracker |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1-alpha3 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I can't find this info in the documentation of the current release and don't see the feature on the demo site.
Will Memetracker include Techmeme-style "discussion" links in addition to related stories?
As I don't know how Techmeme does it, I assume that the discussion links indicate stories that are linking back to the story they're listed under, while related stories are stories with related terms.
Will Memetracker have both types? Or just related stories? Ideally, it'd have both. Seeing who's linking to whom very valuable info.
#1
You understand what Techmeme is doing correctly.
This is the next big thing I'm doing. It'll most likely be working within the next week.
#2
That's excellent news!
#3
Might want to take a look at the FeedAPI Node Discussion module (http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_node_discussion). I haven't used it but it sounds like the same concept, might be able to "obtain" some code :)
#4
hey Sean,
That looks like some oooooold code on there. No documentation either. Ugh.
Kyle et al, I've got more thoughts on discussion links:
So there are a few services that claim to provide this service....
Explicitly:
Technorati's Cosmos API will show you backlinks for any URL you feed it. I have no clue where they're getting these from. Probably from their own index/crawler.
http://technorati.com/developers/api/cosmos.html
Pros: It's the right idea and easy to use.
Cons: Only 500 requests a day. Noncommercial only.
Yahoo's Site Explorer InLink Data API also will show you backlinks for a specific URL.
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/pageData.html
Pros: Easy to use. 5,000 request-per-day limit.
Cons: Noncommercial use only. The big problem is that it shows you tons and tons and tons of backlinks from internal pages, archives, blog sidebars etc. I saw lots of lame links. Could be useful though.
Finally there's the search API's for Blogrunner, Google Blog search and Technorati. There's a Drupal module that has all the code to track reactions to Drupal nodes. I'm sure it can be easily modified to track reaction to the original URLs of feed items.
I spent some time playing with all three of these, and together, they might turn up some stuff. But individually, none really wowed me. They were also returning a lot of sidebar links rather than actual discussion links from within the content of articles or posts.
So there's an update on the discussion links. Not looking that great, eh?
Anyone else know of other services?