An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single

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. For example,

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News Feed Facebook's Feed, formerly known as the News Feed, is a web feed feature for the social network. The feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Feed highlights information that includes profile ...

is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the proliferation of activity streams on websites, there have been calls to standardize the format so that websites could interact with a stream provided by another website. The Activity Streams project, for example, is an effort to develop an activity stream protocol to syndicate activities across

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applications. Several major websites with activity stream implementations have already opened up their activity streams to developers to use, including Facebook and

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. Though activity stream arises from

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, nowadays it has become an essential part of

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is used in different types of companies to organize their internal communication and acts as an addition to traditional corporate intranet. Collaboration software like Jive Software,

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, and Chatter offer activity stream as a separate product. At the same time other software providers such as , Central Desktop, and Wrike offer activity stream as an integrated part of their collaboration software solution. Activity streams come in two different variations: * Generic feeds: all users see the same content in the activity stream. * Personalised feeds: each user gets bespoke items as well as custom ranking of each element in the feed.

Notable sites with activity streams

* Gnip * Salesforce.com's Chatter * Traction TeamPage Release 5.0 adds activity streams to Enterprise 2.0 social software platform *

Twitter Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, image ...

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Notable software

* Eureka Streams * Ektron CMS400.NET Release 8.0 adds activity streams to its social software suite

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* Talk by

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on Compass Summit 2011
Instagram's feed with images & videos

New York Times news feed
(on mobile) {{Online social networking Social networking services

Notable sites with activity streams

Notable software

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