On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 20:30 -0400, Craig Andrews wrote: > My account is on http://identi.ca/candrews. Let's say I'm browsing around > teh intarwebs, and come across a notice at http://obscure.com/notice/123 > which I like. I am not subscribed to this obscure user's stream, nor do I > want to - it's just a one off notice I like. Because the site is obscure, > no one at identi.ca has subscribed to this user's stream, so > http://obscure.com/notice/123 isn't known as a remote notice in > identi.ca's database. > > I would like to favorite http://obscure.com/notice/123 Ignore the fact > that there is no UI to do so for now :-)
> 1. At the protocol level, can OStatus favor this notice? Or would > subscription/previous awareness be required? Yes, protocol is to send a Salmon "like" slap from candr...@identi.ca to u...@obscure.com. > 2. If it is possible at the protocol level, at the StatusNet code level, > how can we send that favor notification? (Again, ignoring the fact there > is no UI to do so for now) There's code to do this in the OStatus plugin. > Background: I'm plotting how to make a Facebook-esq "Like" button - but > based on StatusNet. And this is one part that I haven't been able to wrap > my mind around yet. This is something that matters quite a bit for me. Here's my rough idea on the subject. candr...@identi.ca can go to http://evan.status.net/ to subscribe to e...@status.net's stream. Technically, how this works is that when you click the "Subscribe" button, you enter your Webfinger URI (or HTTP profile URI), and the StatusNet site does some LRDD or WebFinger discovery on you. It finds a specific endpoint, the one for subscription, and redirects your browser to that URL, with the URI of e...@status.net as a parameter. (You can see the link template here: http://identi.ca/main/xrd?uri=candr...@identi.ca ). OExchange http://www.oexchange.org/ works very similarly. You provide an ID, the service does discovery on that ID, and then redirects you to an endpoint on your home server to complete the transaction. I think that some of the other things you do on someone else's notice (repeat, reply, fave) or profile page (message, nudge) could follow this same pattern. There are some tricky parts. First, showing you your current state w/r/t that notice: have you repeated it? Have you faved it? Second, the redirect-and-return UI is a little clunky compared to the Ajax UI on your own site. It would be good to have a similar interface without compromising security -- but that would complicate things. Third, maintaining your identity. One way is for obscure.com to cookie you (ostatususer=candr...@identi.ca) after your first successful interaction and just use that identity in the future, skipping the "who are you" step. Another would be for you to actually log in to obscure.com using OpenID, but not associating with a local user account. It's a pretty cool problem; I think we can come up with a pretty straightforward solution. In this particular case, I'd like whatever we provide to be in line with OpenLike and stuff like that. -Evan ________________________________________________________________________ Evan Prodromou, CEO StatusNet Inc., 1124 rue Marie-Anne Est #32, Montreal, QC H2J 2T5 T: 438-380-4801 x101 C: 514-554-3826 W: http://evan.status.net/ E: e...@status.net
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