In the highly choreographed, highly status-conscious world of diplomatic protocol, it would be hard to imagine a more blatant snub.

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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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