Socialism, Activity Streams, & Federating The Social Web

SOCIALISMACTIVITY STREAMS, & FEDERATING THE SOCIAL WEB#fsws

Portland, OR ••Chris Messina July 18, 2010Federated Social Web Summit •

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ATOM

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ATOM+ACTIVITYSTREAMS<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/">

  <entry>

      <title>...</title>

      <link rel=”alternate”>...</link>

      <id>...</id>

      <updated>...</updated>

      <author>

        <activity:object-type>person</activity:object-type>

        <name>...</name>

      </author>

      <activity:verb>post</activity:verb>

      <activity:object>

        <activity:object-type>note</activity:object-type>

        <content type=”html”>

          ...

        </content>

      </activity:object>

  </entry>

</feed>

ATOM+ACTIVITYSTREAMS<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/">

  <entry>

      <title>...</title>

      <link rel=”alternate”>...</link>

      <id>...</id>

      <updated>...</updated>

      <author>

        <activity:object-type>person</activity:object-type>

        <name>...</name>

      </author>

      <activity:verb>post</activity:verb>

      <activity:object>

        <activity:object-type>note</activity:object-type>

        <content type=”html”>

          ...

        </content>

      </activity:object>

  </entry>

</feed>

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VERBS & OBJECTS

VERBS & OBJECTS

• Add Friend• Check-in• Favorite• Follow• Like• Join• Play• Post• Save• Share• Tag• Update

• Article• Audio• Bookmark• Comment• File• Folder• Group• List• Note• Person• Photo• Photo Album• Place• Playlist• Product• Review• Service• Status• Video

VERBS & OBJECTS

• Add Friend• Check-in• Close• Commit• Created• Edited• Follow• Fork• Join• Open• Post• Pull• Push• Resolve• Save• Share• Tag• Update

• Article• Branch• Comment• File• Folder• Group• Issue• List• Master• Note• Page• Person• Photo• Project• Service• Status• Video

GitHub

VERBS & OBJECTS

• Accept• Add Friend• Answer• Ask• Award• Follow• Join• Post• Revise• Share• Tag• Update

• Article• Badge• Comment• File• Group• List• Note• Person• Photo• Question• Status• Tag• Video

StackOverflow

VERBS & OBJECTS

• Add Friend• Check-in• Follow• Join• Post• Save• Share• Tag• Update

• Article• Comment• File• Group• List• Note• Person• Photo• Status• Video

StackOverflow+ GitHub

The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad, Gowalla, Gnip, Superfeedr, YIID, and many others.

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