Publish/subscribe mashups for social networks

摘要

Described herein is a mashing technology that facilitates mashup creation over a plurality of publish/subscribe social network data stream. These mashing techniques that are tailored to managing content from disparate social networks. As described herein, these techniques include creating and using a set of operations that facilitate the creation of “mashups” over multiple publish/subscribe social network data streams.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, incoming streams comprising social network data from a plurality of publishers; monitoring, by a processor, at least one of the incoming streams for changes over a predetermined interval of time, the changes being determined by comparing the at least one of the incoming streams to previous related incoming streams; transforming, by the processor, the at least one of the incoming streams via transformations comprising:
creating an output stream comprising the determined changes over the predetermined interval of time;modifying a data item from the at least one incoming stream;modifying the output stream to be compatible with a particular device; and serving, by the processor, the output stream.