[Greasemonkey] TechnoProxy

[Alf Eaton]

Matthew Gertner writes: 

> Hey guys, 
> 
> Stef Magdalinski and I collaborated on a new AJAX-style script that embeds
> Technorati links in every webpage you visit. The design even looks quite
> nice since it was spruced up by Gina Haeussge (aka Foosel). Among other
> things, it's another good demonstration of what you can do with
> semi-transparent iframes, which I noticed were mentioned here recently in
> the context of the Google Maps API. 
> 
> The script and my brief description are here:
> http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/07/05/technoproxy/. 
> 
> Enjoy!
> Matt

It would probably be worth explicitly pointing out that this script allows 
Stefan to track every web page that users visit. Not that he'd necessarily 
do anything with it, but some people might find that to be a bad thing. 

Would it not be possible to call Technorati directly (as the memetrack 
script does with del.icio.us and bloglines: 
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/04/11.html#a1212 )? (of course this 
doesn't get much further around the privacy problem either) 

alf.