On vacation

I'll be back August 15^th. So no posts until then.

Technorati language filter

The same day I complained about Technorati's lack of language recognition it launched it's language filter. It currently is in beta (it only works on searches, not on tags and it supports the top 10 languages used in the ‘blogosphere’). At first I thought they might have an accessibility problem using Javascript to change the language, but it works fine when Javascript is turned off.

The interface might be accessible but it needs to be improvement. You can't select multiple languages. I would like to have results in English, Dutch and German.

Update 23:06: I've gotten a reply from Technorati on some feature requests.

Hi Jasper,
Thank you for your feedback. We currently envision giving our users the ability to store their language preferences along with their account data. We hope to expand the spectrum of international tools available to you while searching the blogosphere.

Technorati is currently re-architecting its authority measurements. We will have some new and improved ways for you to sort your search results on things like number of inbound links.

Thank you for contacting Technorati.

Niall Kennedy
Community Manager
Technorati

Tags:

• Technorati
• Language
• Usability
• Accessibility
• WCAG
• Javascript

Internet Explorer 7 beta 1

Get your copy of Internet Explorer 7 beta 1 now! Too bad I don't have time to test it for the next two weeks.

Update 18:25: Anne van Kesteren and Hayo Bethlehem took a look at it.

Tags:

• IE
• Internet Explorer
• IE7
• MSIE
• MSIE7

Things Technorati should do better

I like the idea behind Technorati, but I've noticed that I don't really use it because of some weak points.

• It doesn't recognize languages ². I only want to search for content in specific languages, or I want good translations of content in languages I don't speak.
• Low performance from time to time. I don't like waiting for more than one or two seconds.
• Not 100% reliable ¹. Yesterday I've posted something that still isn't indexed at this moment.
• No ‘quality’ filter. Sites with more links are likely to have better content. I would like to be able filter on that. Then some tag RSS feeds are interesting to me.

I hope Technorati is able to improve on those points.

¹ Update 2005-07-28: The post I mentioned was indexed 7 hours ago. So Technorati might be reliable but indexing takes way too long.

² Update 2005-07-28: How about that: Technorati added language support yesterday!

I also have gotten a reply from Technorati on some feature requests.

Tags:

• Technorati
• Translate
• Language
• Performance
• Search Engine
• RSS
• Usability

Blogger edit comments user script

After reading a post explaining how to edit comments in Blogger I got an idea. I would like to integrate comments editing into the Blogger posts list. So, here is the Blogger edit comments (0.2.2) user script for Greasemonkey.

It adds a link to the comments in the posts list and it adds an edit link to edit each comment in the comments list:

0.2.2

Fixed it to work with Greasemonkey 0.6.4.

0.2.1

Fixed it to work with Greasemonkey 0.5.1. Thanks to Johan Sundström for pointing the problem out.

0.2

• Removed Blogger's onclick which caused an extra window to be opened.
• Corrected the title for the edit link.
• Added a link to quickly and permanently delete comments.

0.1

Initial version.

Tags:

• Blogger
• Greasemonkey
• Edit comments