Activity Streams is an open format specification for activity stream protocols , which are used to syndicate activities taken in social web applications and services, similar to those in Facebook 's, Instagram 's, and Twitter 's.
6-549: The standard provides a general way to represent activities. For instance, the sentence "Jack added Hawaii to his list of places to visit" would be represented in ActivityStreams as actor:jack, verb:add, object:Hawaii, target:placestovisit. Implementors of the Activity Streams draft include Gnip , Stream, Stream Framework, and Pump.io . The largest open source library (based on watchers) is Stream Framework,
12-467: The Foundry Group and First Round Capital . The service was used for projects like collecting huge volumes of data for analyzing Twitter clients. In 2009, Gnip launched a Push API. In September, Gnip underwent a significant product overhaul accompanied by an internal restructuring of resources. In 2010, Gnip launched their new and revised social media data collection product and released
18-534: The "Grand Central Station for the Social Web" shortly after launch. Although the company launched with just a few basic features such as notifications, the product was designed to act as an intermediary to simplify the collection of social media data. The company used the tagline "making data portability suck less." By the end of 2008, Gnip had raised $ 3.5 million in Series B funding from investors such as
24-439: The authors of Stream Framework also run getstream.io. In addition there is a trend of SOA (service-oriented architecture) where third parties power this type of functionality. GeoSPARQL provides OWL and RDFS alignments to the Activity Streams vocabulary. This Internet-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gnip Gnip, Inc. was a social media API aggregation company that
30-452: The new Activity Streams format for web data. Subsequent to a 2010 data licensing agreement with Twitter Inc , Twitter purchased Gnip in April 2014. Gnip was founded by Jud Valeski and Eric Marcoullier with an initial investment of $ 1 million. The company was based on the premise that collecting data from many social APIs simultaneously is tedious and time-consuming. It dubbed itself
36-524: Was purchased by Twitter in 2014. Headquartered in Boulder , Colorado , it provided data from dozens of social media websites via a single API . Gnip was among the first social media API aggregation services. Gnip is known as an early influencer in building the real-time web. The company has also been instrumental in defining relevant web standards : Gnip's co-founder Eric Marcoullier actively advocated for adoption of open web standards, and helped define
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