Re: Activity Pingback

On 12 October 2012 21:22, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11 October 2012 21:16, Sandeep Shetty <sandeep.shetty@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I might be quite interested to try out the "like" use case from any URI
>> to
>> > any URI.
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>> > I know that facebook and google have a like button that is used in many
>> > sites, does anyone have a button that we could use to test out the
>> general
>> > case?
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>> I have a working open-source (alpha) implementation of Activity
>> Pingback at: http://pingback.converspace.com/
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>> and I'm currently working on a proof of concept of activityweb.org,
>> specifically around "like" and should have something to demo in about
>> a weeks time.
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>> There are some interesting problems with federated likes (or any
>> activity for that matter). For example, unlike centralized likes, its
>> hard to ensure accuracy of like counts since the activities are taking
>> place on different websites and any problems during the activity
>> pingback process could mean loss of info.  To mitigate this, an
>> activity pingback endpoint will need to implement queuing of
>> unsuccessful activity pingbacks and retry with an exponential delay
>> (like you typically would do with webhooks). Endpoints could delegate
>> this responsibility to open proxies (soon to be implemented at
>> pingback.converspace.com) to simply their own implementation (this is
>> the equivalent of a hub in PubSubHubbub).
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>> I would love to get feedback and suggestions from people on this list
>> on how this could be improved upon.
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> I have managed to find a like button which I've added to the bottom of my
> homepage
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> http://melvincarvalho.com/
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> The 'likes' so far (which you can see by clicking on the number "3")
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> http://melvincarvalho.com/likes
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> To see the data behind it click on ("This page as Linked Data"), I've
> modelled it as a commerce transaction so that this flow can be extended
> fully to payments:
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> http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmelvincarvalho.com%2Flikes
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> Last step is pingback ... I was thinking of just doing these one at a time
> then automating it ...
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OK I've completed the final step by pinging both Kingsley and Henry (by
hand)

Kingsley's pingback endpoint gave an error

Henrys gave me : Your message has been successfully delivered!

Really cool that all this could be implemented in under a day!


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>> Sandeep Shetty
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