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October 14, 2005
Michael Graves on Pingwidth
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Michael Graves at Verisign has immediately picked up on the "pingwidth" term I introduced the other day, and more importantly, chimes in on the likely demand for fatter and fatter pings:
[from
Welcome to the Infrablog: Word of the Day: Pingwidth]
As Stowe Boyd suggests in his reply, there is demand and usefulness for fat pings. Pings that come not just with the URL-based information contained in the basic ping above, but also metadata like:
- geo-location (where the blogger is posting from)
- geo-referencing (places mentioned in content)
- people names
- author’s tags
- trackbacks/pingbacks
- comment notification
- digital signatures & trust assertions
- media/attachment metadata
That’s not an exhaustive list, but you get the idea – much more pingwidth. All of this information is useful in some consumption context, and much more efficient if submitted with a ping rather than having to be discovered by URL dereferencing and crawling.
‘Pingwidth’. Wish I’d thought of that…
Well, people like Verisign are in a much better position to benefit from the new ping economics. All I am going to get is a footnote for coiing the term. Grumble.
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