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All the Latest SIOC Stuff

Posted Thu, 06/08/2006 - 19:45 by John Breslin

There's been quite a few happenings in the "siocosphere" during the past month:

  1. Christoph Goern posted some details about how to enable SIOC output for a community site such as a planet aggregator; I hope to work on this myself WRT Planet PHP.

Should Technorati Index Bulletin Boards and How

Posted Fri, 08/12/2005 - 22:42 by John Breslin

It popped into my head a few days ago that Technorati could do something very similar to their blog search engine for bulletin boards. How?

  1. Bulletin boards can provide RSS feeds of their content, on a per-forum basis. I've installed this functionality for phpBB and vBulletin, and there's not that much to it.
  2. Bulletin board software usually has BBCode, or quick markup for inserting HTML into a discussion post. You then just have to add a BBCode markup item for "tags".

For example,

[tag]{param}[/tag]

would get translated to: