A service for testing trackbacks

10-September-2005

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Duarte Nuno has posed a question about other sites supporting trackback. I'll try to post an entry later on what kinds of other sites do support trackback ("real" weblogs, basically). I replied to his item (in the Test Notes blog) with some info about hoe you can *test* trackbacks from outside - I hope I didn't misunderstand the thrust of his quoestion. I included a link to a service which allows you to send a dummy trackback to/from urls of your choice. I thought that this link waas useful enough to post it again here

Do you know other sites that suport trackback ?? It's important to test the way other website could suport trackbacks ! I understand that this is an important feature, so maybe it's not so comumn to a website to have this killer function If anyone knows anything about it !

Duarte Nuno, Test Notes - other sites ?

Testing trackback can be a pain if you do not already have access to another blog publishing system with trackback enabled. There is a publicly available test service, though - if only I could recall the URL. Steve has the URL, but it's the middle of the night and he's off ill anyway. I just googled for it and got too much noise in the results - aha! Just tried del.icio.us/tag/trackback and one such service was near the top. In the web2.0 world we have to start thinking different :o). I've collected that link into my own tag del.icio.us/Mike_Malloch/webtech/trackback as well, and will try to collect other useful resources there in the near future. The form is at No-Host Trackback.

I'll also trackback to this entry from some other sites (I am admin in a lot of them so can get away with that kind of abuse). And here are a couple examples of KNotes entries that have been linked to from outside KNotes ( scroll to the bottom of the entry to see trackbacks or click the 'just trackbacks' link. At some point I'll think to add an internal anchor in the main templates' markup to allow urls like url-of-main-blogview#trackbacks, but not yet :O)


Mike Malloch; 10-September-2005 04:19:18; forum (0) help

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