mobility & activity streamsnick drandakis

nylon.grdrandakisdrandakisdrandakis

Social Object

People don’t just connect to each other. They connect through a shared object.

Jyri Engestrom

personal activities

From content production, to

microcontent goodness

tweets, checkins, status updates, likes.... But goes further than that:

*Location Based Services

LBS*

Fight Club Augmented Reality

The Feltron Reportswww.feltron.com

I can see a world where eventually my children will look back at my Foursquare data and say: ‘This is Kevin’s history - this is where he was on his birthday 10 years ago, and this was his favourite place to eat’. Building that profile throughout your life and saving those locations - I think that’s huge.

Kevin Rose - DiggMarch 11, 2010

“”

my blog

my activities place

Text

The solution to data overload is more

metadata

“”

Chris MessinaGoogle Inc.

RSS

RSS is made for documents, not activities

1999

title + link + description

2005

title + link + summary + author + id + updated

the friendfeed problem

the challenge

• Develop a format for expressing activities

• Compelling experiences from activity feeds

the solution? a universal format

activitystrea.ms

Actor verb object {context}

Nick tweeted Good morning! {via Tweetdeck}

Actor verb object [indirect object]{context}

Nick bought Outliers [for Hector]{at Amazon}

title + link + summary + author + id + updated +

verb + object-type + target

ATOM+ACTIVITY STREAMS

ATOM+ACTIVITY STREAMS

verbs & objects• Article• Audio• Bookmark• Comment• File• Folder• Group• List• Note• Person• Photo• Photo Album• Place• Playlist• Product• Review• Service

• Add Friend

• Favorite

• Follow

• Like

• Join

• Play

• Post

• Save

• Share

• Tag

• Update

don’t think websites, think data.

please...

the FC, MRD rule

FC = Free Content

MRD = “Machine Readable Data”, babe...

we

needmore

developers

thanks

nylon.grdrandakisdrandakisdrandakis

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