socialmedian: Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

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Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jan 09, 2009

Summary

Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying recent activities of your friends online. Think Facebook Newsfeed, the basic format of FriendFeed, or the kinds of update chronicles we're seeing now on almost every social network around the web.

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Who was in the room? People from Google, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, Nokia, Comcast and a variety of forward looking small startup companies. Thanks to the magic of mobile streaming video, you can be a virtual fly on the wall of this important meeting. Nokia's Ian Kennedy captured the conversation on his phone using Kyte.com and posted it online.

What are activity streams all about? People are taking actions and publishing content on a wide variety of websites these days; pulling all that data together, with a variety of different permission levels for viewing and different types of data, is much easier said than do

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Comments (4)

Marcel,

Jan 09, 2009

" Activity streams are already a big deal, but if these conversations can be fruitful, the results will be as big as the point in history when customers of different email providers became able to email each other or different telephone company customers became able to call each others' phones."

Tweric,

Jan 10, 2009

I like the transparency...meetings like this out in the open! Thanks Ian Kennedy, his phone & kyte.com and readwriteweb + Marshall K -- first time I heard of Chris Mussina: cool video.