Activity stream

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List of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website

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::summary List of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/FavBlogs_-Flickr-_USDAgov.jpg" caption="A stream of [[Twitter]] posts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture"] ::

An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website. For example, Facebook's News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the proliferation of activity streams on websites, there have been calls to standardize the format so that websites could interact with a stream provided by another website. The Activity Streams project, for example, is an effort to develop an activity stream protocol to syndicate activities across social web applications. Several major websites with activity stream implementations have already opened up their activity streams to developers to use, including Facebook and MySpace.

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Activity streams come in two different variations:

  • Generic feeds: all users see the same content in the activity stream.
  • Personalised feeds: each user gets bespoke items as well as custom ranking of each element in the feed.

Notable sites with activity streams

Notable software

  • Eureka Streams
  • Ektron CMS400.NET Release 8.0 adds activity streams to its social software suite

References

References

  1. Michael Arrington. (September 6, 2006). "Facebook Users Revolt, Facebook Replies". TechCrunch.
  2. "Atom Activity Base Schema (Draft)". Activity Streams.
  3. Juan Carlos Perez. (December 9, 2009). "MySpace Opens Activity Stream to External Developers". PC World.
  4. "Forrester research". www.tibco.com.
  5. David F Carr. "Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr Ranked Top Social Activity Streams". Information Weekdate=May 18, 2012.
  6. Juan Carlos Perez. (April 27, 2009). "Facebook opens up 'activity stream' to external developers". Computer World.
  7. (June 22, 2010). "Salesforce.com Heralds The Activity Stream - Chatter Comes out of Beta". ReadWriteWeb.
  8. (June 15, 2010). "Traction TeamPage 5.0 Delivers Integrated Social Networking and Collaboration with New Generation Interface Technology".
  9. (November 9, 2009). "Release delivers eMarketing Suite and builds on CMS400.NET's social software platform".

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