WebMention

Webmention is a simple way to notify any URL when you link to it on your site DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20140820

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What is WebMention?

• From the receivers perspective
  • it's a way to request notifications when other sites link to it
    • http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention

What makes it work?

• It uses only HTTP
  • making it possible to construct simple HTML forms that exercise the protocol, which is a good design principle for web protocols in general

Who is using this and how?

• some IndieWeb participants are already using this
  • http://adactio.com/
  • http://aaronparecki.com/
• It provides the ability to provide simple (no JS needed) webmention submit forms
  • on blog posts for others to paste URLs to their replies