Welcome
Welcome to the Technorati Developers Wiki
The Developer Wiki was created for application developers, Web developers, and Technorati power users. It is set up as a Wiki so that you can contribute and become equal participants in the development of the site. Come to this page if you're looking examples of Technorati API implements or plug iins. Or, if you have feedback for us or need support.
See RecentChanges for pages with new content.
Feedback
We value and appreciate your feedback. So, we've created three ways for you to give us that feedback. The engineering team checks these pages out regularly to see what's new, as well as determine what is doable. Pleas participate. We invite you to participate.New: Tags!
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Technorati now supports Tags. See Tags help, and the RelTag specification.
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TagsTools - A list of blogging and publishing tools that support Technorati Tags.
Developers
Technorati API
Build Technorati functionality into your application using Technorati's APIs.TechnoratiApi lists the various web service APIs that are provided, including the latest addition, the Attention.xml API.
The Technorati SDK (v0.04 - December 29, 2004) provides many convenient samples and interfaces for a variety of programming languages:
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http://developers.technorati.com/download/technorati-sdk-0.04.tar.gz
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http://developers.technorati.com/download/technorati-sdk-0.04.zip
Technorati also publishes an online directory of the various ways developers use our APIs. Please check out our APIDeveloperDirectory.
Pinging
Build Technorati pinging into your content publishing applications and services. See the Ping Configurations page for details on how current publishing systems are configured to ping Technorati automatically.
Do you have a content publishing application or service not listed there? Add it to our pingConfigurations wiki page!
Specifications
Technorati is working with the Web community to design, develop, and/or advocate, simple, open standards for the Web.
Published
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XOXO - a simple, XML and XHTML valid way of expressing extensible outlines.
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Attention.xml - use XOXO to represent blogroll, feed sync, and attention data.
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VoteLinks - an extension to the <a href> link to express a vote - agree, disagree, abstain
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XFN - extension to <a href>, especially for blogrolls, to indicate social networking relationships
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rel="license" - extension to <a href>, for any web page, to indicate the license (e.g. Creative Commons) for that page.
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RelTag - A standard for indicating that the destination of a link is considered a user designated "tag" for the current page.
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RelNoFollow - Indicate that a link should not receive any strength or weight from the current page.
In Progress
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hCard - vCard RFC2426 mapped into XHTML.
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hCalendar - iCalendar RFC2445 mapped into XHTML.
Past Developer Events
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See also PastDeveloperEvents.
Editing / Moin Stuff
You can edit any page by pressing the link at the bottom of the page. Capitalized words joined together form a WikiName, which hyperlinks to another page. The highlighted title searches for all pages that link to the current page. Pages which do not yet exist are linked with a question mark: just follow the link and you can add a definition.
To get an overview over this site and what it contains, see the SiteNavigation page.
Interesting starting points:
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RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
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HelpForBeginners: to get you going
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WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
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FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq