diff --git a/mod/ping.php b/mod/ping.php
index 38a32744d0..d11af2e0ea 100644
--- a/mod/ping.php
+++ b/mod/ping.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 	$friends = array();
 	
 	$r = q("SELECT `item`.`id`,`item`.`parent`, `item`.`verb`, `item`.`author-name`, 
-			`item`.`author-link`, `item`.`author-avatar`, `item`.`created`, 
+			`item`.`author-link`, `item`.`author-avatar`, `item`.`created`, `item`.`object`, 
 			`pitem`.`author-name` as `pname`, `pitem`.`author-link` as `plink` 
 			FROM `item` INNER JOIN `item` as `pitem` ON  `pitem`.`id`=`item`.`parent`
 			WHERE `item`.`unseen` = 1 AND `item`.`visible` = 1 AND
@@ -25,13 +25,16 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 	$network = count($r);
 	foreach ($r as $it) {
 		switch($it['verb']){
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/like':
+			case ACTIVITY_LIKE:
 				$likes[] = $it;
 				break;
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/dislike':
+			case ACTIVITY_DISLIKE:
 				$dislikes[] = $it;
 				break;
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/make-friend':
+			case ACTIVITY_FRIEND:
+				$xmlhead="<"."?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?".">";
+				$obj = parse_xml_string($xmlhead.$it['object']);
+				$it['fname'] = $obj->title;			
 				$friends[] = $it;
 				break;
 			default:
@@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `item`.`id`,`item`.`parent`, `item`.`verb`, `item`.`author-name`, 
-			`item`.`author-link`, `item`.`author-avatar`, `item`.`created`, 
+			`item`.`author-link`, `item`.`author-avatar`, `item`.`created`, `item`.`object`, 
 			`pitem`.`author-name` as `pname`, `pitem`.`author-link` as `plink` 
 			FROM `item` INNER JOIN `item` as `pitem` ON  `pitem`.`id`=`item`.`parent`
 			WHERE `item`.`unseen` = 1 AND `item`.`visible` = 1 AND
@@ -51,13 +54,16 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 	$home = count($r);
 	foreach ($r as $it) {
 		switch($it['verb']){
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/like':
+			case ACTIVITY_LIKE:
 				$likes[] = $it;
 				break;
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/dislike':
+			case ACTIVITY_DISLIKE:
 				$dislikes[] = $it;
 				break;
-			case 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/make-friend':
+			case ACTIVITY_FRIEND:
+				$xmlhead="<"."?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?".">";
+				$obj = parse_xml_string($xmlhead.$it['object']);
+				$it['fname'] = $obj->title;
 				$friends[] = $it;
 				break;
 			default:
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 	}
 	if (count($friends)){
 		foreach ($friends as $i) {
-			echo xmlize( $a->get_baseurl().'/display/'.$a->user['nickname']."/".$i['parent'], $i['author-name'], $i['author-link'], $i['author-avatar'], relative_date($i['created']), sprintf( t("{0} is now friend with %s"), $i['pname'] ) );
+			echo xmlize( $a->get_baseurl().'/display/'.$a->user['nickname']."/".$i['parent'], $i['author-name'], $i['author-link'], $i['author-avatar'], relative_date($i['created']), sprintf( t("{0} is now friend with %s"), $i['fname'] ) );
 		};
 	}