Matthias Pfefferle

David Shanske

IndieWeb

When you link to a website you can send it a Webmention to notify it and then that website may display your post as a comment, like, or other response, and presto, you’re having a conversation from one site to another!
A <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/" rel="nofollow ugc">Webmention</a> is a notification that one URL links to another. Sending a Webmention is not limited to blog posts, and can be used for additional kinds of content and responses as well.
For example, a response can be an RSVP to an event, an indication that someone “likes” another post, a “bookmark” of another post, and many others. Webmention enables these interactions to happen across different websites, enabling a distributed social web.
The Webmention plugin supports the Webmention protocol, giving you support for sending and receiving Webmentions. It offers a simple built in presentation.

Webmention

Easiest way to integrate Webmentions!

This is fantastic. I joined indieweb a few days ago. Last night I wanted to know "So what actually does the technical implementation of a WebMention look like?". I am now working on improving my understanding and perhaps I'll create some documentation that I find easier than the w3c spec or a WP plugin.

Great work, very patient team.

Wonderful

A good plugin that does something very useful. Love the indieweb and Matthias Pfeferle does such great work

Good plugin by a top dev

baptiste.gourdin

TalkBack is a open-source secure LinkBack mechanism based on a public-key cryptography that aims at tackling the blog spam problem at its root: instead of detecting spam via the content analysis like Akismet, TalkBack prevents spammers from posting LinkBack notifications. When installed TalkbBack add the two following lines of defense to your blog:
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The first line of defense is a lightweight PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) that ensures the identity of blogs by using public key cryptography. Moreover using cryptography allows TalkBack to guarantee that no one can tampers with your TalkBack notifications and that the receiver will received them unaltered.
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The second line of defense, is a global rate limiting system enforced by the TalkBack authorities that ensures that with a single blog identity, a spammer cannot massively spam TalkBack aware blogs.
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TalkBack is compatible with every other defense mechanism and do not store/disclose any private information about your blog or you. As a matter of fact if you don’t trust the network, TalkBack can also encrypt your notification to protect them from eavesdroppers.
A complete description of Talkback is available here: http://code.google.com/p/talkback-client/downloads/detail?name=talkback-paper.pdf and the source code here: http://code.google.com/p/talkback-client/downloads/detail?name=talkback-wordpress-plugin.pdf

Talkback

TalkBack is a secure protocol for LinkBack notification designed to prevent the blogosphere from being spammed.

Webmention vs Talkback