HotLinks Blog

more update

Between july and now : disabled the cache system, switched to full utf-8, upgraded to magpierss 0.71.1 and finally added Merlin Mann to the "all star list". Yeah, hotlinks not dead :)

cleaning & update

Just updated the footer, checked and fixed broken RSS feeds, added a little cache system to improve performances, added Joshua Schachter and Ross Mayfield to the sources. Next step, clean utf-8 (yep Anne !) support and magpierss update.

copy to blogmarks.net & hot.icio.us

Yes, it's official, we are behind the blogmarks.net service. One of our original motivation was to build an HotLinks for everyone, one other was to build an Atom enabled linkblog service. We've just released our API yesterday.

We're looking for some interactions between the two services. Here's the first : a "copy" button (in the bottom right corner of the HotLinks items) that let you add the link to your blogmarks.

What ? You still don't have a blogmarks.net account ? Create one now morron !

You're a del.icio.us addict ? You really don't want to use "yet another bookmarking service" ? We're fine people. Bertier created fo you hot.icio.us, a greasemonkey script that turn the "copy to blogmarks.net" feature into an "add to del.icio.us" one.

Now just enjoy :)

Bertier just released another extension Popup blogmarks.net posting for Hotlinks that turn the link (add to blogmarks.net) into a popup.

Hot Firefox Links

Go to Hotlinks firefox keyword result page
Click on the Live Bookmarks icon on the bottom of the window
Subscribe in your Bookmarks Toolbar Folder or elsewhere

You're now an Hot Firefox Links subscriber ... in Firefox.

For a little funny recursivity effect, let blogmark this post :-)

Hotlinks own domain

We're looking for a domain name. As u may think, it's a very difficult task.

So what must we do ?

Change our name ?
Go ahead with a weird extension ? .to .tk
Reserve a domain ala ho.tlinks.net ?
Wait for hotlinks.com at christmas ?

Ideas ? Thoughts ?

Permalinks, new contributors, new screenshot engine

I don't know if you've already noticed but Hotlinks items now have true permalinks. Look for the anchor on the bottom right corner !

Since the last post on this blog, I added two friends in the contributor list :

Cl�ment Hardo�in, a french standard activist known for the CSS Zen Garden Horizental or for the french traduction of the Developing With Web Standards paper
Michel Bertier aka Tristan Rivoallan, a free software and LAMP guru, web developer too, responsible of the former Snapbot screenshot engine

The new screenshot engine is powered by Benfle.com and is based on a Python/VNC/Firefox machinery. It rocks and it's only in beta stage. Thanx Beno�t !

Snapbot holidays?

Snapbot (our screenshot engine) will be down for some days.

If you want the screenshots back, you can write an XML-RPC web service.

method : web.html2png

with 1 parameter :

or 4 parameters :

url
screen width
screen height
reduction ratio

The service must send directly in response a png image. The size is 146px x 109px in our case (1024x768 with 7 as reduction ratio).

Food for thoughts :

Connectivity problems

... since saturday or sunday.

Sorry for the nuisances. We're working on ...

update (18 june) : fast new server, now fixed :-)

URL normalisation

We no longer normalise the "www" in URLs. This "feature" has break too many URLs ... So the last update is a little buggy, sorry ...

...

Added Kellan, number 45. Kellan is the creator of magpie, the RSS/Atom parser we use here. You can read his post Structuring of a Linkblog which is very interesting.

By the way, we now have 7 "advanced" Atom feeds with the alternate/via/related sheme ... Oh yeah :-)