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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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Trackbacks everywhere
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    I fully agree with Sebastian who wrote in "On Blogs, Portals and
    Conference Websites" about something which I would count to the category
    "semantic web". Sebastian says, it would be a good idea for (e.g.) portal
    websites to implement trackback APIs. The benefit for you is to be able to
    comment on a story of that portal in your own weblog.

I fully agree with Sebastian who wrote in "`On Blogs, Portals and Conference
Websites`__" about something which I would count to the category "semantic
web". Sebastian says, it would be a good idea for (e.g.) portal websites to
implement trackback APIs. The benefit for you is to be able to comment on a
story of that portal in your own weblog.

.. __: http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/blog/archives/405-On-Blogs,-Portals-and-Conference-Websites.html

But I even see more benefit in that. The usual structure of the web is
unidirectional, which means, that a klick onto a link is in most cases a
one-way-road. Sure, you can hit back to revisit the last website, but there's
no connection from a link target to the link source. The trackback technology
implements links in a bidirectional way, if someone publishes a link, another
link to his entry is provided at the link target.

I think there are many more application areas for trackbacking. Imagine a shop
that implements it for it's products. If someone writes a realted article,
this is directly available as a kind of "review". Imagine a product website of
a manufaturer, where automatically reviews, tipps and anything imaginable
around the product is linked.

In general, I like the idea to have trackbacks more distributed in the web.
The idea of bidirectional linking is cool.


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Trackbacks
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- Golem.de feat. Trackback on Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:59:10 +0200 in oujie dot com
  
  Als eines der größten deutschen Newsportale bietet Golem.de jetzt die
  Möglichkeit an, Trackbacks für die Artikel zu setzen.Die von Six Apart
  für die Weblog Software Movable Type entwickelte Funktion Trackback
  erfreut sich unter Bloggern zunehmender Belieb

- Ephedra bulk. on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:40:09 +0100 in Ephedra cla products.
  
  Ephedra supplements. Ephedra.


Comments
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- Aaron Wormus at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:43:05 +0200

  One problem I see with trackbacks is what often becomes the duplication of
  content, or/and unnessesary linkage. 

  I read this on Sebastians weblog first, I left a comment and then saw your
  trackback and come over here. You may bring up a topic that he didn't, so I
  leave a comment here as well. Now I don't really want to carry on this
  conversation on two different weblogs, as inevitably the content would
  overlap.

  Now the second scenario is if I as a blogger don't have anything new to say.
  If this is the case then I shouldn't use a trackback, but leave a comment on
  the originating weblog saying that you agree, and then I can put an entry on
  my own blog pointing to the originating site.

  What would be cool would be to have a "Trackback Explorer" type of app,
  which tracks the trackbacks and organizes the different "conversations" into
  a threaded view.

- Ben Ramsey at Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:13:39 +0200

  Another problem is the inevitable misuse of trackbacks by spammers. Also, in
  the case of products, corporations, governments, etc., these entities
  generally have an external link policy that keeps them from allowing
  off-site links to just anybody. And, after all, why would they want links to
  potentially bad reviews showing up in their trackback listing?

  I think the trackback is a great idea, but I don't think we're going to see
  it implemented in many places other than blogs and news sites, both of which
  tend to place emphasis on community, hence the popularity of the trackback.

- Yoda at Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:53:05 +0100

  und nu weiss ich immer noch nich, wie trackbacks praktisch anzuwenden
  sind... :) kannst du nix zu... nur eine anmerkung, weil ich wie wild eine
  anleitung im web suche... bislang erfolglos... nettes blog-script
  übrigens... ;) gruss yoda