Re: Activity Pingback

On 13 October 2012 00:10, Andrei Sambra <andrei@fcns.eu> wrote:

> On 10/12/12 22:20, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> On 12 October 2012 21:22, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
>> <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.**com <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>>     On 11 October 2012 21:16, Sandeep Shetty <sandeep.shetty@gmail.com
>>     <mailto:sandeep.shetty@gmail.**com <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.
>>          >
>>          > 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/<http://pingback.converspace.com/>
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>>         and I'm currently working on a proof of concept of
>>         activityweb.org <http://activityweb.org>,
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>>         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 <http://pingback.converspace.**com<http://pingback.converspace.com>>)
>> to
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>>         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 <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<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)
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>> Kingsley's pingback endpoint gave an error
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>> Henrys gave me : Your message has been successfully delivered!
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> Henry uses my-profile.eu for pingback delivery. However, your ping was
> not addressed to him but to yourself. At least that's what I can tell my
> looking up the ping in the database. This is the source URI:
> http://melvincarvalho/likes, and this is the destination URI:
> http://melvincarvalho/likes. Are you sure you're doing it right? :)
>

Thanks Andrei, I resent the form


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> Andrei
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>  Really cool that all this could be implemented in under a day!
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>>         --
>>         Sandeep Shetty
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