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    <p>Specifications:</p>
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      <li><b>W3C Recommendations</b>: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/">JSON Activity Streams 2.0</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/">Activity Vocabulary</a> (current <a href="http://www.w3.org/Social/WG">W3C Social WG</a> publications)</li>
      <li><a href="http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/">JSON Activity Streams 1.0</a> (2011)
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          <li><a href="https://github.com/activitystreams/activity-schema/blob/master/activity-schema.md">Activity Base Schema</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/targeting/1.0/">Audience Targeting for JSON Activity Streams</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/replies/1.0/">Responses for Activity Streams</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://raw.github.com/activitystreams/activity-streams-verb-definition/master/activity-streams-verb-definition.txt">Draft: Verb Definitions for Activity Streams</a>
          <li><a href="https://raw.github.com/jasnell/specs/master/activitystrea.ms/priority_extension.txt">Draft: Priority Extension for Activity Streams</a>
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      </li>
      <li><a href="http://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/">Atom Activity Streams 1.0</a></li>
    </ul>

    <p>Community:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Join the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/">mailing list</a></li>
      <li>Contribute to the <a href="http://wiki.activitystrea.ms">wiki</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://github.com/activitystreams" title="activitystreams's Profile - GitHub">GitHub Repository</a></li>
    </ul>

    <p>
      Archive:
      <a href="http://martin.atkins.me.uk/specs/atommedia">Atom Media</a>.
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    <p>
      The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by
      BBC,
      <a href="http://www.ibm.com">IBM</a>,
      <a href="http://blog.superfeedr.com/activity/pubsubhubbub/streams/activity-streams/" title="Superfeedr Blog : Activity Streams">Superfeedr</a>,
      <a href="http://wiki.activitystrea.ms/TypePad-Activity-Streams">TypePad</a>,
      and <a href="http://wiki.activitystrea.ms/Implementors">many others</a>.
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    <p>
      An initiative from the <a href="http://diso-project.org">Diso Project</a>.
      <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/12/20/where-were-going-with-activity-streams/">Background</a>.
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