activity streams
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The talk I gave at the "Learning About the Open Stack for the Social Web" event at Digg.TRANSCRIPT
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Activity Streams
Chris Messina
Learning about the Open Stack for the Social WebDecember 19, 2008 ☃ Digg, 135 Mississippi St, San Francisco, CA
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“Lifestreaming”
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Today
• Last.fm
• Jaiku
• Facebook newsfeed
• FriendFeed
• etc.
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The challenge
• Develop a format for expressing activities
• Compelling experiences from activity feeds
• The zero-knowledge test
• etc.
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FriendFeed Services
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The Benefits• Staying in touch across the web
• An open, emergent ecosystem
• Filtering, search, automation & stats
• Optimal, compelling experiences with activities
• Coalescing, merging, de-duping
• etc.
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Examples
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last.fm
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sweetcron (yongfook.com)
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FriendFeed
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boxee.tv
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Movable Type Motion
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Eventbox
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Anatomy of an activity
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Actor verb object [context]
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factoryjoe tweeted Niches Bitches! [via SMS]
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Actor verb object {indirect object} [context]
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Chris bought Planet Earth {for Brynn} [at Amazon.com]
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Activities on the Open Web
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I visit davidrecordon.com
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I decide I want to follow his activities
Sign in to follow Dave!
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I sign in with my OpenID
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At my hub, I’m asked whether I want to follow Dave
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I say yes, and am asked which activity types I’m interested in...
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Should any of the selected types be protected, I will be asked whether I want to request access
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If yes, an OAuth request will be sent which Dave will later be able to approve, deny or ignore
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...And Dave’s public activities will show up in my activities dashboard
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...And if Dave approves my request, his protected activities will show up later
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More soon at activitystrea.ms
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Fin.
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