My presentation at Athens Mediacamp 2010 about Mobility and Personal Activity Streams

1. mobility & activity streams
nick drandakis
nylon.gr
drandakis
drandakis
drandakis

3. Social Object

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

5. From content production, to
personal activities

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

12. LBS*
*Location Based Services

15. Fight Club Augmented Reality

16. The Feltron Reports
www.feltron.com

17. “ 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 - Digg
March 11, 2010

18. my blog
my activities place

20. “ The solution to data
overload is more
metadata
”
Chris Messina
Google Inc.

21. RSS

22. RSS is made for documents, not activities

23. 1999

24. title + link + description

25. 2005

26. title + link + summary +
author + id + updated

27. the friendfeed problem

28. the challenge
• Develop a format for expressing
activities
• Compelling experiences from activity
feeds

29. the solution? a universal format
activitystrea.ms

30. Actor verb object {context}

31. Nick tweeted Good morning! {via Tweetdeck}

32. Actor verb object [indirect object]{context}

33. Nick bought Outliers [for Hector]{at Amazon}

34. ATOM+ACTIVITY STREAMS
title + link + summary +
author + id + updated +
verb + object-type + target

35. ATOM+ACTIVITY STREAMS

36. verbs & objects
• Article
• Add Friend • Audio
• Favorite • Bookmark
• Comment
• Follow • File
• Like • Folder
• Group
• Join
• List
• Play • Note
• Post • Person
• Photo
• Save • Photo Album
• Share • Place
• Playlist
• Tag
• Product
• Update • Review
• Service

37. please...
don’t think websites,
think data.

38. the FC, MRD rule
FC = Free Content
MRD = “Machine Readable Data”, babe...

39. we
need
more
developers

40. thanks
nylon.gr www.gapingvoid.com
drandakis www.flickr.com/photos/turtlemom_nancy/
Credits:
drandakis www.neologies.net/2007/03/html-tatoo.html
drandakis www.flickr.com/photos/ieatstars