About this ebook
With those skills under your belt, you can explore other applications of this publish-subscribe technology: content management systems, internet of things, and enterprise automation. With hands-on examples and in-depth knowledge from Evan Prodromou, one of the authors of the protocol, this is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs.
- Learn what the social web is and what ActivityPub does
- Represent social network data in the Activity Streams 2.0 format
- Write a simple ActivityPub client and server
- Extend ActivityPub's functionality with new types
- Find in-depth details about the more obscure ActivityPub data structures
Evan Prodromou is a coauthor of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format.
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About the author
Evan Prodromou is the co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format. Sometimes called “The Father of the Fediverse”, Evan made the first-ever post on the social web in May 2008. He founded the Identi.ca web site and StatusNet software (now GNU Social), as well as co-authoring the OStatus social networking specification. As chair of the W3C’s Social Web Working Group, he coordinated the development of AP and AS2 into official standards. He won the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2009 as “Best Social Networking Hacker”. Evan lives in Montreal, Canada, with his wife and two children, where he works on Open Source software to fight climate change. He loves hacking the ActivityPub API and protocol, cooking Greek food, and gardening with North American native plants.
