2011-07-06 Google Buzz

Reading the occasional Google+ post out there I noticed that a lot of people don’t use Google Buzz and mock it. Strange. I use Google Buzz a lot because that’s where I see Google Reader recommendations by other people and discuss my own recommendations.

I guess I could also do this within Google Reader.

The only thing that *really* pisses me off is that I haven’t found a way to tell Google that they should use `https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/` as the feed for my site, stripping all the comments and non-diary pages.

I don’t want this:

im Buzz.png Kommentare im Buzz

So I was giving this one more try, looking for instructions on how to link arbitrary feeds with my Buzz:

To make this claim using XFN markup, edit the external site and add a `<link>` element of type `rel="me"` and `type="text/html"` with a href value of `http://www.google.com/profiles/{user}`.

An example XFN link:

`<link rel="me" type="text/html" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/your.username"/>`

When the site is re-crawled the mutual claim will be verified and feeds associated with the site will be made available within Google Buzz for the verified user. […] To see your existing links, and to request that individual sites be recrawled for updates, see the SGAPI Recrawl Utility.

– Connecting Sites to Google Buzz

SGAPI Recrawl Utility

Connecting Sites to Google Buzz

Here’s what the SGAPI Recrawl Utility has to say:

Linked Sites in the SGAPI Recrawl Utility

What’s wrong?

My blog:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
[...]
<link type="text/html" rel="me" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/kensanata" />

My feed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/css/beige-red-alex-switcher.css" ?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:wiki="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/"
    xmlns:cc="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule">
<channel>
[…]
<wiki:profile type="text/html" rel="me" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/kensanata" />

For the moment it seems that *both these pages are invalid*. I’ll work on that.

Update*: I think the feed is fixed, now. The Feed Validator says so, at least. New version with an atom link and an unregistered `me` attribute:

Feed Validator

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/css/beige-red-alex-switcher.css" ?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:wiki="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
[…]
<link>https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki</link>
<atom:link href="http://www.google.com/profiles/kensanata" rel="me" type="text/html" />

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