TagsTagsGulp. Those Digg links are working just a liiiittle bit too well. Help is on the way; we’ve ordered a second machine to distribute some of the load as soon as possible. When the new server’s in place, we should be able to withstand these surges without much noticeable latency. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic, Digg
Our new Digg links are working better than we could have imagined; we’re having another major traffic surge tonight because another LGF post made it to the Digg front page: Digg - German Muslims Seething at Carnival Parade. UPDATE at 2/21/07 8:01:37 am: I should point out that even though Digg makes ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg
In the latest enhancement to the LGF Blog Engine, I’ve used the code from this page at Digg.com to include a little link below each post that shows its current number of “diggs” (votes), with a button to let you quickly submit a digg if you have an account. I also ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg, Video
I’ve tweaked the popup article descriptions a bit more, by inserting a quarter-second pause when the mouse hovers over a headline in our Ajax News Feeds section. This way, the popups only appear if you want them to, not if your mouse is just passing over on the way to ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic
Another enhancement to the Ajax news feed section of LGF: Yahoo News is kind enough (and non-standard enough) to provide thumbnail photographs in their feeds, so the popup box that appears when you hover over a Yahoo news headline will now include that photograph. Every article description doesn’t contain a ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Another enhancement to our Ajax-driven news feeds: since the handling of the “title” attribute differs so wildly from browser to browser, I’ve implemented a Javascript popup method instead to display the article excerpts. You can see the excerpts by hovering your mouse over a headline; a box pops up showing you ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Yet another enhancement to the Ajax News feeds feature today: if you hover your mouse over a headline for a second or two, a popup box will show the first 40 words of the body of the article. A couple more blogs have been added, and the feeds from Ynet News ...
A quick technical update: several news headline feeds have been added to our Ajax RSS module... blogs and MSM mouthpieces alike. (Note to the New York Sun: your RSS feeds have one or two items? What’s that about? Great paper, now get in the game, guys.) More to come...
More enhancements today to our Ajax-driven newsfeeds section, a very quick and easy way to keep up on what’s happening with most of the world’s top news sites. 1) Our Ajax RSS server now automagically locates, caches, and displays the “favicon” for each site, just like your browser does in its ...
The latest enhancement to the LGF Blog Engine is found in our newsfeeds section, which now uses Ajax—a component technology of what some people are calling “Web 2.0”—to update a section of the page dynamically. The idea behind Ajax is to make web pages behave a bit more like desktop ...