- From: Sandeep Shetty <sandeep.shetty@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:46:51 +0530
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>, public-rww@w3.org
> I might be quite interested to try out the "like" use case from any URI to > any URI. > > 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? I have a working open-source (alpha) implementation of Activity Pingback at: http://pingback.converspace.com/ 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. 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). I would love to get feedback and suggestions from people on this list on how this could be improved upon. -- Sandeep Shetty
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