Hey all,
    (Expanding on http://wiki.activitystrea.ms/Gaming) I've been talking with a few colleagues about gaming activities and I'm wondering if others think gaming activities should include both the game and the platform or jus the game.  For example:

* Anna Apple achieved Underboss in Mafia Wars
* Anna Apple achieved Underboss in Mafia Wars on MySpace

I've gotten mixed feedback from colleagues and I'd love to see if other folks have perspectives here.

Thanks-
--Rob

I'd say activities like this would need in include the platform. From my experiences on Twitter it would just be too easy for others to hop on a popular name for marketing and confuse the heck out of people.

Unless of course the name context was given a namespace or something that could be used to indicate the source to consumers.

/steven
http://livz.org

From: Rob Dolin
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:53 PM
To: activity-streams@googlegroups.com
Subject: Should gaming activities include a host/platform?

Hey all,

    (Expanding on http://wiki.activitystrea.ms/Gaming) I've been talking with a few colleagues about gaming activities and I'm wondering if others think gaming activities should include both the game and the platform or jus the game.  For example:

* Anna Apple achieved Underboss in Mafia Wars

* Anna Apple achieved Underboss in Mafia Wars on MySpace

I've gotten mixed feedback from colleagues and I'd love to see if other folks have perspectives here.  

Thanks-

--Rob

mafia wars is essential and I imagine most platform owners would want to
have the platform from a branding perspective (myspace in your example).
How would each of these parts be represented?
-Ryan

How would you represent multiplatform (transplatform?) games? Where I'm
playing Hearts on my iPhone, you're playing with me via a facebook app, and
Anna's playing with us on X-box.

Do you want to represent the UI access point, the surface someone
uses/plays? This would be like twitter's 'posted via' reference. Or are you
representing the game host or game publisher?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ryan Boyd (Google)
<api.rb...@google.com>wrote:

I just had a glance through the wiki page. This models seems hardcoded
to SN games and excludes  games (eg mmorpgs) that might generate events
people want see outside the game world. Is that intentional?

Bill

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dehora/4045632893/

gaming activity sent from uncharted2 to twitter; note the activity types.

Bill