Contents 1 Building Blocks 1.1 Posts 1.2 Mentions 1.3 Login 1.4 Syndication 1.5 Web Actions 1.6 Link Preview

Building Blocks

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Posts

Posts and variants are perhaps the building block of an indieweb site:

• posts
  • notes
  • articles
  • posts-elsewhere
• comments

Stuff in/of posts:

• hashtags
• permalinks

Mentions

The ability for one webpage to let another it has linked to it is a vital indieweb building block. Amongst other purposes, it helps software pass SWAT0.

Mention technologies:

• pingback
• webmention
• salmon

Login

The ability to use your online identity (domain) to authenticate yourself on the web.

Technologies:

• indieauth
• openid

Syndication

syndication, the ability to post content on your own site and push it out to 3rd party silos.

• POSSE

Web Actions

A web action is the interface and user experience of taking a specific discrete action, across the web, from one site to another site or application.

• webactions

Link Preview

A link preview is what various social network silos (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+) show underneath notes and comments that have one or more URLs, by extracting information from those URLs content and showing a title/summary/photo for those URLs underneath the posted note/comment.

• Link Preview