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# A conversation about social network interop and activity stream relevance
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/a-conversation-about-social-network-interop-and-activity-stream-relevance/
- Published: 2008-06-11T22:41:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:40:57.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: activity streams, Citizen-centric Web, david recordon, DiSo, gspeast08, Open source, social networking, Technology, Web building

\[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/1155577 w=500&h=377\] [Brian Oberkirch](http://brianoberkirch.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) captured [some video](http://www.vimeo.com/1155577?ref=chrismessina.me) today of a conversation between him, [David Recordon](http://daveman692.livejournal.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) and myself at [GSP East](http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/?ref=chrismessina.me) about [social network interop](http://www.ownyouridentity.com/2008/06/11/social-network-interop-chat-gsp-east/?ref=chrismessina.me#comment-281), among other things. Hot on the heals on [my last post](http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/11/adding-richness-to-activity-streams/?ref=chrismessina.me), this conversation is rather timely!

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### 💬 Comments from the original post

**[Clearing the Backlog of Stuff to Read | Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts](http://blog.thylmann.net/2008/06/15/clearing-the-backlog-of-stuff-to-read/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2008-06-15 02:39:44

\[...\] is a very good discussion on the future of social media right here. I do fully believe in the openness part, and it is actually the only way all the social part will \[...\]

**[Defining information relevance for location based services « Geographically challenged](http://siddey.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/defining-information-relevance-for-location-based-services/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2008-06-18 04:12:54

\[...\] from people’s activity feeds. That’s certainly one requirement and you can watch a very interesting video at Chris Messina’s blog in which he discusses elements of this as they relate to social \[...\]