The activity stream applications could then use that contact information to update a contact database.
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The third example builds on this last point and suggests a hierarchy of activity stream applications.
Often, this involved some sort of notification that would make sense to broadcast on an activity stream.
For example, an activity stream notification that a new employee has joined the company could contain full contact information.
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The expectation is that they will work with their activity stream daily and see the workflow items within that stream.
In addition, other, formerly separate, elements, like loyalty programs, gift cards, and location-based services, can now be folded into the main activity stream.
Model 4 requires common standards for it to work externally to insert or remove from the activity stream and keep the interaction model.
He said that after CSC implemented a companywide social network, the ambient awareness created by activity stream like information flows helped current processes work better.
Few people need the activity stream, and if some people do, I am sure an activity stream icon on the left panel would work just fine.
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Soon, IBM should be able to show how updates to the status of an opportunity in SugarCRM that we referred to earlier can be broadcast on an activity stream.
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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 activity stream makes this distributed intelligence more powerful.
With a huge flow of information from many sources, some sort of activity stream filter is needed so that the amount of information flowing through a news feed does not become overwhelming and unmanageable.
Chris Messina pointed out that people seeking to create their own activity stream applications could benefit from another open source project, status.net, that has implemented a protocol called OStatus that incorporates the activity stream formats.
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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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Eventually, however, wider awareness enables some processes to be radically transformed for the better. (For more about this, see the big idea on Social Media and Business Process Transformation at CITO Research.) Note that an intelligent activity stream filter is key to making this work, and we do not have one yet.
If users opt to "follow" favorite trainers, they'll see a stream of activity from those trainers on the right-hand side of this dashboard screen.
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The game is designed to be very social, with a Facebook-style stream of activity of your friends, the ability to instant message friends, status updates, in-game messages and forums.
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Now Rypple is launching a new feature for companies called Rypple Flow, which is basically a constant real-time stream of activity in a company that is piped in over an HD television.
By offering users an option to see all recent activity, Facebook is partially reverting to a feature that it had eliminated years ago, when users could easily toggle back and forth between the news feed and a stream of all activity.
In a poll of nearly 300 venture capitalists, corporate buyers, bankers and entrepreneurs, 79% of the respondents expect "a strong stream" of IPO activity to begin in 2010 or later, according to a recent survey by auditor KPMG.
High-quality video, for example, and the problem of a stream of high-speed Internet activity.
The best improvements can be found in the Discover tab, which now shows one rich stream of tweets and trends, activity and suggestions.
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If the owner of the open cart responds in some way, have a separate stream of communications that responds to their activity.
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