DiSO Activity streams standard
It was quite a scene yesterday at SixApart.
John McCrea and Read/Write have already reported on it - so I’ll add my two cents from my perspective.
1. Chris Messina has been researching the issues and Marty Atkins came up with the first draft spec for this DiSO Activity Feeds standard.
2. We went over the spec and helped define some more verbs which seem to be the standard ones everyone was using. I pushed for JOIN and FRIEND.
4. There was much discussion over the Atom media extensions, mediaRSS and basic meta-data for media. Now I hate to say I told you so, but that’s the stuff I was pushing for - like 3-4 years ago. But alas, we were too early. So here we are 3-4 years later, still discussing media meta-data in feeds. Microformats are great for page tags, but we’re talking about feeds here. But at least we’re getting there now!
5. DiSO Activity feeds are based on Atom, with lots of RSS mixed in. It all seemed coolio to me - but I’m not geeky enough to argue the fine points. A key aspect of my ‘open mesh’ treatise is that geeks spend too much time arguing over details. What I heard was positive vibrations throughout the room.
6. Verbs and Objects is what it’s all about.
7. Facebook was there and talking like they’d be supporting this stuff. I wanted to ask them explicitly about that - but I promised that I’d focus on positive vibes - no negativity - so I kept my mouth shut.
8. David Recordon ran the meeting like a pro. The best part was when Simon of SixApart pointed out that it is HE who actually writes the code that David is often talking about. Gotta love it.
9. Joseph Smarr and John McCrea seem so NOT like COMCAST dudes. I just gotta womder when and if the shoe will drop on them. It’s as if they’re running on full just trying to get as much done as possible before somebody at COMCAST notices. I just don’t see COMCAST building this stuff into their Interactive features for their cable customers. Don’t get me wrong. I’d LOVE IT if that happened, but the whole thing seems so weird to have two of our best leaders working for COMCAST. They’re the guys who do theSocialWeb.tv (along with David Recordon and Chris Messina.)
10. Monica Keller (3.0) made her debut - and what a debut it was! Smart, articulate, well versed and on the money. We brought up the MySpace Atom feed on screen and it was the best example we could find or what we want to do. MySpace has a real winner in this leader.
Lots and lots of other peeps there - lost of progress - kudos to everyone.
Me - I was the oldest dude in the room. And felt proud of that fact.
Now if I could only get folks to focus on distributed friending or a dashboard standard. I guess I’ll have to wait on those ideas.
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