''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