readwriteweb.com - 1/9/2009
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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 ...
obsessable.com - 1/13/2009
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obsessable.com —
While Facebook has seemed like king of the
social networking sites for a while now , boasting...
the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year . The past year has seen a steady increase in
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Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this ...
techcrunch.com - 1/13/2009
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Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience
are out. The first thing we checked? How the...
major social networks are doing. Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2008, is still playing catch up to MySpace in the ...
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Social Networking: Will Facebook Overtake MySpace In The ...
wiki.developers.facebook.com - 1/13/2009
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From Facebook Developers Wiki Jump to: navigation ,
search There is currently no text in this page,...
you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page . Retrieved from " ...
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Custom Tags Directory - Facebook Developers Wiki
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Working Toward Activity Stream Standards
WebProNews Feed —
... that span DiSo, OpenSocial, Open Stack, Facebook Connect, Y!OS, MySpaceID, among others," notes John McCrea, who liveblogged the meeting, and also shares the following related video from the Open Stack Meetup: The mission: make some progress toward a standardization of user generated content or "activity streams." Imagine if all the social networks were somehow unified as one communication medium. Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web uses a couple of really good analogies to describe the event : 1 . "Just like a standard size of railroad track helped the trains get across ...
Google Paper Proves Social Web Has Become a Science
Google Watch —
... Service providers can save themselves headaches by granting users greater control over their data online without enabling them to compromise their personal data. That's a fine line to walk ideologically and technically, but it needs to be worked out. In fact, folks at these sites are working on just that. ...
Goodbye Jaiku? Nope, says Engestrom
p2pnet news —
... and the forthcoming activity stream standards, and what we’re seeing here is the accelerating trend away from microblogging being a destination to microblogging being a pervasive and ubiquitous part of the fabric of the web itself. ...
Will Your TiVo Tweet?
Zatz Not Funny! —
... Apparently I am not alone in my opinion that Activity Streams are the next big thing. Some of the most influential people in social media (MySpace, Google, Plaxo, Comcast, Nokia just to name a few) recently attended a DiSo meeting to discuss the future of how their user’s activity will be published. ( ...
Anatomy of "Connect"
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... Activity: Poked, bought, shared, posted, watched, loved, etc. All of the actions that things like the Activity Streams project are starting to take on. ...
Yahoo! Updates + Yahoo! Social Directory API (aka Yahoo! Connect)
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... Activity: Poked, bought, shared, posted, watched, loved, etc.
All of the actions that things like the Activity
Streams project are starting to take on. ...
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