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Title:

ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here?

Your vote:
Yes No
Organizer:
Chris Messina, OpenID Foundation
Description:
From Facebook's newsfeed to Twitter's relentless real-time updates, the metaphor of the "stream" has taken social networking beyond blog posts and on to rich social activities. Learn about ActivityStrea.ms — the open format adopted by Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live — and how it's fundamentally changing the social web.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is the activity streams format?
  2. Why did Facebook, MySpace and Microsoft adopt it?
  3. How has the format been adopted or implemented?
  4. What are the ramifications of stream-based social networks?
  5. How does the real-time web and streams relate to my web application?
  6. Where can I read the spec and find out more?
  7. What were some of the challenges and design goals in designing this format?
  8. What research was done in developing the format?
  9. What are creative uses of activity streams?
  10. What is the history of activity streams?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Accessibility / Web Standards, Digital Distribution, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Networking, Web Apps / Widgets
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Dave Gray
on 17/8/09
This topic looks very interesting, would also like to hear what problem it solves and why it was invented in the first place.
Brynn Evans
on 17/8/09
@Dave I believe the problem it's solving is: now that we split our attention across lots of different social sites, our actions are distributed all across the web (posting to Flickr, digging news, tweeting, etc.) Activity Streams now gives us a standard specification for taking those actions outside of any one site — it encourages interoperability across social sites. But it would also let an individual user have a "stream" just of his/her activities from anywhere. Hope that helps!
ryan junell
on 4/9/09
aight then!
Phil Wolff
on 6/9/09
OpenID provides a measure of identity consolidation: one login for many sites. ActivityStrea.ms sets out to do the same for your updates: a protocol so sites can synchronize what you do. Update once, see everywhere.
Free Games
on 2/11/09
Fabulous. Voted!
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
Moroccan Furniture
on 27/11/09
sounds incredibly interesting and relevent!
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