Brief set of slides I put together for the Federated Social Web Summit.

1. SOCIALISM
ACTIVITY STREAMS,
& FEDERATING THE SOCIAL WEB
#fsws
Chris Messina • Federated Social Web Summit • Portland, OR • July 18, 2010

2. actor verb object target

3. ATOM
JSON
Photo by trainman74

4. ATOM+ACTIVITYSTREAMS
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/">
<entry>
<title>...</title>
<link rel=”alternate”>...</link>
<id>...</id>
<updated>...</updated>
<author>
<activity:object-type>person</activity:object-type>
<name>...</name>
</author>
<activity:verb>post</activity:verb>
<activity:object>
<activity:object-type>note</activity:object-type>
<content type=”html”>
...
</content>
</activity:object>
</entry>
</feed>

5. ATOM+ACTIVITYSTREAMS
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/">
<entry>
<title>...</title>
<link rel=”alternate”>...</link>
<id>...</id>
<updated>...</updated>
<author>
<activity:object-type>person</activity:object-type>
person
<name>...</name>
</author>
post
<activity:verb>post</activity:verb>
<activity:object>
<activity:object-type>note</activity:object-type>
note
<content type=”html”>
...
</content>
</activity:object>
</entry>
</feed>

6. VERBS &
OBJECTS

7. VERBS & • Add Friend • Article
OBJECTS • Check-in • Audio
• Favorite • Bookmark
• Follow • Comment
• Like • File
• Join • Folder
• Play • Group
• Post • List
• Save • Note
• Share • Person
• Tag • Photo
• Update • Photo Album
• Place
• Playlist
• Product
• Review
• Service
• Status
• Video

9. VERBS & • Add Friend • Article
OBJECTS • Check-in • Branch
• Close • Comment
• Commit • File
• Created • Folder
GitHub • Edited • Group
• Follow • Issue
• Fork • List
• Join • Master
• Open • Note
• Post • Page
• Pull • Person
• Push • Photo
• Resolve • Project
• Save • Service
• Share • Status
• Tag • Video
• Update

14. VERBS & • Accept • Article
OBJECTS • Add Friend • Badge
• Answer • Comment
• Ask • File
• Award • Group
StackOverflow • Follow • List
• Join • Note
• Post • Person
• Revise • Photo
• Share • Question
• Tag • Status
• Update • Tag
• Video

15. VERBS & • Add Friend • Article
OBJECTS • Check-in • Comment
• Follow • File
• Join • Group
• Post • List
StackOverflow • Save • Note
+ GitHub • Share
• Tag
• Person
• Photo
• Update • Status
• Video

16. The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by Facebook,
MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad,
Gowalla, Gnip, Superfeedr, YIID, and many others.

17. “History is written by the winners”
—George Orwell
Tribune, 4 February 1944

18. I’m on a horse.