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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, [1] 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. [2] Several major websites with activity stream implementations have already opened up their activity streams to developers to use, including Facebook and MySpace. [3] [4]

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Though activity stream arises from social networking, nowadays it has become an essential part [5] of business software. Enterprise social software is used in different types of companies to organize their internal communication and acts as an addition to traditional corporate intranet. Collaboration software like Jive Software, Yammer, and Chatter offer activity stream as a separate product. At the same time other software providers such as tibbr, Central Desktop, and Wrike offer activity stream as an integrated part of their collaboration software solution. [6] [7]

Activity streams come in two different variations:

Notable sites with activity streams

Notable software

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References

  1. ↑ Michael Arrington (September 6, 2006). "Facebook Users Revolt, Facebook Replies". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Atom Activity Base Schema (Draft)". Activity Streams. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Juan Carlos Perez (April 27, 2009). "Facebook opens up 'activity stream' to external developers". Computer World. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ Juan Carlos Perez (December 9, 2009). "MySpace Opens Activity Stream to External Developers". PC World. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ "The Modern User Experience for the Enterprise and the Web" (PDF). Oracle.com. January 2011. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  6. ↑ "Forrester research". www.tibco.com.
  7. ↑ David F Carr. "Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr Ranked Top Social Activity Streams". Information Weekdate=May 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Salesforce.com Heralds The Activity Stream - Chatter Comes out of Beta". ReadWriteWeb. June 22, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
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