How would you mark up a phone history?

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http://josephholsten.com

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Dec 27, 2011, 7:23:07 PM12/27/11
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I'm trying to twist my google voice history into a self-monitoring
tool I built. Each entry has a phone number, time, type (incoming/
outgoing, sms, voicemail) with an optional message.

Has anyone seen phone calls, sms or voicemail in existing activity
streams implementations? I'd prefer to pave the cowpath if there is
one.

Otherwise, I'm leaning towards:

actor: whoever actually called or messaged
objectType: person
url: occasionally the phone number is the only identifier: tel:
+1-918-948-6747
verb: post
object: call or message
objectType: note for sms, audio for voicemail, what about recorded,
placed, recieved and missed calls?
content: transcription of the message
target: whoever was called or messaged

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Alex Solleiro | Manybots

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Dec 28, 2011, 6:56:42 AM12/28/11
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Hi,

On Dec 28, 12:23 am, "http://josephholsten.com"
<jos...@josephholsten.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to twist my google voice history into a self-monitoring
> tool I built. Each entry has a phone number, time, type (incoming/
> outgoing, sms, voicemail) with an optional message.
>
> Has anyone seen phone calls, sms or voicemail in existing activity
> streams implementations? I'd prefer to pave the cowpath if there is
> one.

This is what we've implemented so far in Phown's integration with
Manybots:

- the Actor is always the account's owner (URLs and IDs match this)
- the Object's objectType is either phone-call or sms
- the verb
- if phone-call: start, receive, miss, fail
- if sms: send, receive, fail
- the Target is always the other person

In a weird activity english: Alex start phone-call Joseph / Alex
receive sms Joseph

We are planning to add a custom "duration" property to represent a
phone-call's duration in seconds in a soon to be launched upgrade to
Phown.

We'd never brought this up on the list or documented it publicly on
the AS Wiki or elsewhere, so it's a contribution to the discussion and
comments are appreciated.

(links: https://phown.manybots.com and https://www.manybots.com)

HTH,
Alex
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