socialism, activity streams, & federating the social web
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Brief set of slides I put together for the Federated Social Web Summit.TRANSCRIPT
SOCIALISMACTIVITY STREAMS, & FEDERATING THE SOCIAL WEB#fsws
Portland, OR ••Chris Messina July 18, 2010Federated Social Web Summit •
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>
person
post
note
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.
“History is written by the winners”
—George Orwell Tribune, 4 February 1944
I’m on a horse.