Activity Streams News & Articles

As if we didn't have enough activity streams in our lives already, Hojoki provides one for your favorite apps. Now you can keep track of what's going on on Twitter, Google Docs and Dropbox from one convenient location. 

Mindjet has been busy. Not only is the company working hard on MindManager, but it also developed a new cloud-based collaboration solution: Mindjet Connect and acquired social task management vendor Cohuman. Guess what? Some of this is free.

You've probably noticed Twitter's (news, site) new Activity tab by now. The section displays interesting information about the people you follow, such as which tweets they've recently starred and who they've added to their network: 

Microblogging, activity streams and communities. These three elements are among the most popular within enterprise collaboration platforms, so they get a lot of special attention from vendors. NewsGator (news, site) has just updated all three in Social Sites 2.0 v2, so let's look at what's new and improved.

SocialText says that social is not just a feature, it's a layer. What's the difference? Read on.

Unless you’re living off the grid, or a paranoid rendition of Tony Soprano operating on a cash basis and only taking in-person meetings -- your life is full of streams of data that track what you are doing. 

Everyone knows that there are idealists, and there are pragmatists, and the two don't mix. Right? Well, the world is rarely that black and white. Want proof? A key name in the history of open source and the open web has just gone to work for a company-devouring corporation.

It’s back - yes it is. Jaiku has arisen from the depths of Google and is now offering unlimited invites to all. Google acquired the microblogging service back in the October of last year and we’ve heard very little about it since then. Perhaps now that school is back in, Google sees an opportunity to grab a market away from Twitter.