I’m testing out the trackback system by Daniel Fienes. I translated it into English, and installed it here on my Greymatter powered blog. If it works it should be quite cool.
Update: It’s working. I’ll clean a few things up and then ask Daniel if he wants to release this English version.
In the meantime, feel free to ping my ass.
Hi!
I found you in my refferer! Your translation idea is pretty cool!
I think, an realease of the english version would be pretty cool. Are you going to mail me about it ?
Greetings, Daniel
I emailed you yesterday, didn’t you get it? I’ll try sending it again.
Hi,
sorry, but I haven’t recieved your mail. Can you try it again with danfie@gmx.de and fiened@uni-muenster.de ? Greetings, Daniel
hey, since the site is in german care to explain what exactly a trackback site is?
Well a good place to start would be with the guys that came up with the idea, Ben and Mena from MovableType.
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/archives/000300.html">Trackback
The basic idea is interlinking blogs by being able to ping entries. This means that if you see an entry on my blog and want to write something about it, or more about it on your blog, you would be able to ping my entry and have a link to your entry show up here.
My site has to be able to recieve pings and your site has to be able to send them, otherwise it doesn’t work.
Daniel’s Trackback is a standalone version done using PHP and MySQL, and can be installed on just about any site that can run those two.
Ben and Mena have also just released a http://www.movabletype.org/news/2002_08.shtml#000571">standalone version of their Trackback system. Theirs uses CGI, and I’m assuming still uses RDF data. I haven’t read the documentation yet.
Also, you can use Google’s Language Tools to translate pages. It’s not perfect, but it usually does a good enough job of translating so that you can at least understand things.
Limey boy. pretty slick (or so it sounds). how does a regular schmo use this tool?