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Making the Case for Activity Streams in the Enterprise

if you want to sell your manager on an activity stream or microblogging solution, what are you supposed to do? Here are Lynch's key points for making the case for activity streams in the enterprise:

1. Admit Activity Streams Are Another Tool (It's OK That It Is)

2. When Done Right, Activity Streams Quell, Not Add To, Information Overload

3. You don't have to stare at activity streams all day

4. They're Cheaper and Easier

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Inbox2 - One stream for all your accounts

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MySpace Has Activity And Content Streams Now

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Why Big Data & Real-Time Web Are Made For Each Other [Michael Franklin in GigaOm}

"This doesn’t mean that the need for managing stored data is going away. In fact, most useful applications will need to combine streaming data with stored historical data, and in-stream processing is an extremely efficient way to compute metrics to be stored for later use."

You're already seeing the traditional software vendors retool platforms to address real-time data. It used to be all you heard was unstructured and structured data..now it's real-time and everything else.

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