Socialcast provide a service with a strong focus on building activity streams into the fabric of the organization.
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The activity streams standard is an open source project created by Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate at Google.
Using activity streams inside your business seems like a great way to start.
It promises to help make sense of your Twitter account through easy-to-use features for cleaning up followers, lists and activity streams.
The activity streams standard has already been adopted by MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad, Gowalla, Gnip and many others.
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We created a driving game, and messages come up with driving trips, and their activity can show up in various activity streams.
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Mobile Devices: Use your iPhone, iPad or Cisco Cius Android device to start video conference calls, post your status, or stay informed through activity streams.
The next step then will be to start plugging new sources of data into the activity streams to raise awareness in all sorts of ways.
So with one click, our electric car salesperson can import a contact from Hootsuite into Nimble and auto-populate the record with additional contact information and activity streams.
So far, we have made clear that the potential for surprise will likely increase as internal corporate social networking expands and starts to put activity streams to work.
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These offerings, which are focused on microblogging and activity streams (although some are quickly venturing into new areas of functionality) are getting a lot of traction in the market.
In addition to simple notification, the activity streams data could also include payloads of information that could be used by the device or the cloud-based service to perform activity.
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Now, with activity streams, we harvest the recognition of important events from a variety of sources and spread them around to see if they hit home to create value.
The Activity Streams Project is being implemented in two ways: by extending the Atom Syndication format and by adding a JSON-based format to the Open Social 2.0 standards.
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Making activity streams work in a social network internal to a company is much easier than getting all the companies on the public social networks to play nicely together.
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Over the past couple of years, IBM has been working on technology for collaboration that include not just email but instant messaging, web meetings, blogs, wikis, Facebook-type communities and Twitter-like activity streams.
Activity streams complement them by allowing employees to keep track of activities and messages from many different networks of people, groups and even applications in a stream of content over time, again conceptually similar to Twitter.
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Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.
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Given the massive growth in the amount of data that is becoming available and the innovations of startups like WiseWindow that are making such data useful for business, it is only natural that the audience for consuming the insights gained from such data will be expanded through activity streams.
The ultimate goal for IBM is not only to show that this suite of applications can be more valuable through integration of news feeds created from activity streams, but to also to act as a conduit so that the rest of the applications and sources of information used in a business can have their value amplified by social networking mechanisms.
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ThingWorx itself is both a platform to implement an activity stream application and to synthesize external activity and event streams in a way that could help discover surprises in another application.
The updated app gives tablet fans new streams of activity to explore what songs people are tagging and, in the US, what TV shows people are currently watching, as well as a fascinating new interactive mapping feature enabling music fans to explore what people are discovering in any city around the world.
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Morgan Stanley is undergoing a significant strategic shift in its business, with the stated goal of reducing volatility from traditional investment banking activity and generating more stable fee income streams from Global Wealth Management.
As more streams of machine data become available, more activity can and will be tracked, and more potential value can be reaped from such data.
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The free app enables Dropcam users to view live video streams of up to four cameras simultaneously as well as receive activity alerts and capture photos.
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Organizations can find new business streams, create more sustainable buildings and cities, pinpoint cures for diseases, or reduce criminal activity.
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