In San Francisco last night, Six Apart (who
The mission: make some progress toward a standardization of user generated content or "activity streams." It's quite obvious that the web is going in a more social direction altogether, and the need to have such standards will increase right along with the number of sites going social. With all these data portability projects on the loose, it's going to be important to have some common ground established, and it's great to see all of these players are working together to acheive this.
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
"Activity streams are already a big deal, but if these conversations can be fruitful, the results will be as big as the point in history when customers of different email providers became able to email each other or different telephone company customers became able to call each others' phones."
Working Toward Activity Stream Standards
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