Activity Streams: High-impact Emerging Technology - What You Need to Know : Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

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, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the proliferation of the activity stream 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. Several major websites with activity stream implementations have already opened up their activity streams to developers to use, including Facebook and MySpace. This book is your ultimate resource for Activity Streams. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Activity Streams right away, covering: Activity stream, Comparison of social networking software, Facebook features, Myspace, Salesforce.com, Traction TeamPage, Ektron, 1000Memories, 2collab, 360voice, 43 Things, 56.com, 85 Broads, About.me, Academia.edu, Adam4Adam, AdChina, Affinity Labs, Ambient awareness, Ameba (website), Amie Street, ANobii, Answerbag, Apache Thrift, Arnetminer, AsianAve, Askalo, ASmallWorld, ASUIsTalking, Asymmetric Follow, Athlinks, Audimated, Badoo, Bahu, Baidu Space, Google Base, Batanga.com, The Bear Club, Bebo, Bentio, BettyConfidential, BeWelcome, Big Fish Games, BIGADDA, BiomedExperts, BIRDZ, BlackPlanet, Blauk, Blip (internet), Blippy, Blogster, BlogTV, Blue Kaffee, BlueMelon, Bongotones.com, Boobquake, Bookarmy, Boomdizzle, Boomj.com, Bragster, Brand networking, Broadband Sports, BroadwaySpace, BROG, BuddyPress, BuzzDash, BuzzFeed, Buzznet, Bview, CafeMom, Cake Financial, CampusBuddy, CampusNetwork, Capazoo, Care2, Pete Cashmore, Cellufun, Central media, Cheek'd, Chictini, Cisco Eos, City-Data, CIX, Classmates.com, Cloob, Collaborative innovation network, Collaborative network, Communities.com, Community Health Index, Communote, Comparison of micro-blogging services, Comparison of sites using the LiveJournal codebase, Computational trust, ConnectU, Consumer-generated marketing, Contrail (network), The Conversation Prism, Cortex Inc., CouchSurfing, Crackle, Craigslist, Crazy Blind Date, CreateDebate, Crewster, Women in Crime Ink, Cross.tv, Crowd computing, Currensee, Cybermentors, Cyberpolitics, DaGeek, DailyBooth, Dailymotion, DailyStrength, DaruDar, DateBid, Decayenne, Delhii, Desimartini, DGamer, Diabetes Hands Foundation, Diabetic Rockstar Inc, Diary-X, Diaspora (software), Digital public square, Dipdive, Disaboom, Diversity University, DJ Tutor, Dodgeball (service), Dol2day, DontStayIn, Doostang, Dopplr, Douban, Dreamwidth, Dudesnude, Dulwich OnView, Eats Media, LLC, EConozco, Edmodo, EGO Game, Ekiga, Elfster, Elgg (software), Engage with Grace, Enterprise bookmarking, Enterprise social networking, Enterprise social software, Eons.com, Epernicus, The Equities Group, ERepublik, Essembly, Eureka Streams, Eurekster, Everyday Explorers, Expatica, Experience Project, Experts-Exchange, EXPO Communications, Inc. (dba ExpoTV), Exxset, Ezmo, FaceKoo, Faceparty, Faces.com, Album2, Faves.com, FetLife, Filemobile, Filn, Firefly (website), FitFinder, FiveSprockets, FledgeWing, Flickchart, Flickr, Flirtomatic, Flixster, Floxx, FOAF (software), Focus.com, Folkdirect.com, Fotki, Fotolog, Fotopedia, FoundersCard, Foursquare (social network)...and much more This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Activity Streams. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Activity Streams with the objectivity of experienced professionals.