[foaf-dev] [foaf-protocols] fp:ping

[Story Henry]

On 16 Apr 2010, at 19:49, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Story Henry wrote:
>> 
>> On 16 Apr 2010, at 17:26, Danny Ayers wrote:
>> 
>>> pings are great, and recording pings is a great idea (you don't think
>>> google don't do this already?). Bit over engineered - all you need is
>>> maybe A -> B (hopefully URIs) and a timestamp.
>> 
>> Not sure one needs a timestamp even.
>> 
>> I can see a comment being useful perhaps.
>> 
>> "Hi we met yesterday at the bar..."
> 
> What is "yesterday" without a timestamp :-)

☺ Good point! 

Well presumably it would be an indexical on the time of the saying, ie, the posting of the content. So the server receiving the content would just have to know when it received it. 

But there may be more sophisticated use cases that we are missing that way.

> 
> 
> - Jonas
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> P.S.
> 
> Greetings!  I am new to this list and have just sat idle until I couldn't resist with above silly remark. I do software packaging for Debian and have a growing interest in FOAF and semantic web.

Good remark, and welcome to the list!

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