| 9 | | The Action Streams plugin utilizes Movable Type to monitor a collection of 3rd party web sites |
| 10 | | and services for changes to a user's profile. The plugin will then aggregate and collect those |
| 11 | | actions so that they can be published to a user's website, blog or profile. |
| | 9 | Action Streams for Movable Type collects your action on third party web sites into your |
| | 10 | Movable Type web site. Using it, you can aggregate those actions for your reference, promote |
| | 11 | specific items to blog posts, and stream the whole set to your friends and readers. Action |
| | 12 | Streams are a powerful part of your web profile. |
| 13 | | The plugin adds the ability for an author within Movable Type to list their accounts on 3rd |
| 14 | | party web sites. From these accounts, a periodic task automatically imports the author's |
| 15 | | activities on those services via RSS, Atom, and some web scraping. This allows the author to |
| 16 | | create an Action Stream completely under their control. |
| 17 | | |
| 18 | | This plugin then provides a set of template tags as well that make it possible to publish and |
| 19 | | display the author's accounts and actions on any page powered by Movable Type. The default |
| 20 | | example templates use the Microformats XFN and hAtom to make the information more accessible. |
| | 14 | The plugin adds the ability for your Movable Type authors to list their accounts on third |
| | 15 | party web services. A periodic task then automatically imports your authors' activity on those |
| | 16 | services using XML feeds (where provided) and scraping HTML pages (where necessary). Your |
| | 17 | authors can then publish their action streams completely under their control: the provided |
| | 18 | template tags make it possible to display authors' accounts and actions on any page powered by |
| | 19 | Movable Type. The example templates and the provided template set also use the XFN and hAtom |
| | 20 | microformats and provide web feeds to integrate with tools your readers may be using. |
