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Technorati: Linking Blogs

sar7501 has taken time out of his busy schedule to bring a few improvements to your TechJapan navigation experience.

-First of all, we've added "Tags" that seem to be all the rage with blogs these days (though we vehemently deny being a blog). In the Tamagotchi article, for example, the tags are "Bandai" and "Tamagotchi." We have also put in some features to enable related articles to come up even if no tags are defined (since we're too lazy to go back and add them to our existing 1,000+ articles).
-These tags will link you directly to a search of TechJapan for articles containing the same terms. You'll probably notice we implemented some new search URLs, so searching for something like "noodles" is as easy as punching in http://www.techjapan.com/Search-noodles.html in your address bar. And for some reason, "noodles" actually yields search results.
-From the new tags and existing topic system, we now have links to related articles at the bottom of all articles. Going back to the Tamagotchi article, you should see links to the 2-story Gundam recreation, that ULTRAMAN model Exilim, and the Evangelion edition iPod (all having to do with Bandai). The related articles from the topics are also randomly generated, so you can literally sit in front of TechJapan all day, lean on the F5 key, and find new articles EVERY refresh.
-Where the ultra-exciting topic icons appear in the articles, you'll notice a new box containing some information about how the article was categorized. Some of you may think that having categories, topics, AND tags is a bit overkill, but given the breadth of technology we cover here at TechJapan, we felt it was appropriate. In this block you'll also find Technorati's "Linking Blogs" feature, which we've chosen to act as our "Trackback" feature because this functionality is not offered by the default PostNuke package.

Let us know if you have any problems!