Ronald Ashri: On Supporting Activity Streams in Drupal

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Supporting Activity Streams in Drupal is an interesting problem. On the one hand you have the endless possible actions afforded by Drupal and on the other hand you have the necessarily restrictive standard on which to map those actions. Add to that the need to make this as transparent to the user as possible and it becomes a really fun little exercise. In this post we take a brief look at Activity Streams and what some of implications of supporting them in Drupal are.

A couple of days ago I wrote a post about the importance of de-centralised social networks in general and the role Drupal can play, in particular. I also indicated that one of the first things we would like to look at here at Istos is providing support for Activity Streams in Drupal. In this post we briefly look at Activity Streams and discuss some of the issues for adding support in Drupal.

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