Presentation by Chris Messina

1. Activity Streams
Chris Messina
Learning about the Open Stack for the Social Web
December 19, 2008 Digg, 135 Mississippi St, San Francisco, CA

2. “Lifestreaming”

3. Today
Last.fm
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Jaiku
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Facebook newsfeed
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FriendFeed
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etc.
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4. The challenge
Develop a format for expressing activities
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Compelling experiences from activity feeds
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The zero-knowledge test
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etc.
•

5. FriendFeed Services

6. The Benefits
Staying in touch across the web
•
An open, emergent ecosystem
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Filtering, search, automation & stats
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Optimal, compelling experiences with activities
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Coalescing, merging, de-duping
•
etc.
•

7. Examples

8. last.fm

9. sweetcron (yongfook.com)

10. Facebook

11. FriendFeed

12. boxee.tv

13. Movable Type Motion

14. Eventbox

15. Anatomy of an activity

16. Actor verb object [context]

17. factoryjoe tweeted Niches Bitches! [via SMS]

18. Actor verb object {indirect object} [context]

19. Chris bought Planet Earth {for Brynn} [at Amazon.com]

20. Activities on the Open Web

21. I visit davidrecordon.com

22. I decide I want to follow his activities
Sign in to follow Dave!

23. I sign in with my OpenID

24. At my hub, I’m asked whether I want to follow Dave

25. I say yes, and am asked which
activity types I’m interested in...

26. Add contact
Dave Recordon Add subscriptions
Worst username evar. Contact details
San Francisco, CA Status updates
davidrecordon.com
Photos
Bookmarks
Your message (optional)
Blogs
Hi there! We met that conference
daveman692
last week. I’ve subscribed to your
updates on my site. Six Apart
Location
-Chris
Music
Movies
Slide presentations
Events
Travel
Local reviews
Books
Access requires permission from Dave
Inspired by Jyri Engeström

27. Should any of the selected types be protected, I will
be asked whether I want to request access

28. If yes, an OAuth request will be sent which Dave
will later be able to approve, deny or ignore

29. ...And Dave’s public activities will
show up in my activities dashboard

30. ...And if Dave approves my request, his
protected activities will show up later

31. More soon at activitystrea.ms

32. Fin.
me -› factoryjoe.com