Technorati API

I’ve been playing around with the Technorati API today. Got an interesting addition to add to BritBlog soon… I’m basically using Technorati to tell me the RSS and Atom feed URLs. This is then stored in the database and will be published on the the member blog profiles.

Once I’ve got this data, I can use the feed URLs to keep an eye on member blogs, and hopefully publish recent member posts. This will tie in to the XML-RPC ping update service. Anyway, more info will be published about this when it’s up and live.

On the topic of the ping service, it’s all nearly done! I’ve been working out how to optimise it for performance, and there doesn’t seem to be any really clear way to do this. As I think I’ve mentioned before, it’s easy to set up a ping service, but getting it to stand up to the spammers is another question!