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Getting started and integrating with a technical solution, like the Stream activity feed API, can be exciting. Sometimes you just want to rip open the proverbial box and get started. When implementing a new API I rarely want to read pages and pages of (sometimes boring) documentation - so here’s your TL;DR version of the

These days, activity stream and feeds (ex. newsfeeds) are ubiquitous. The most obvious examples are the Twitters and Facebooks of the world, but feeds are also being adopted by companies such as Google and Amazon. We’ve even noticed that many companies are basing their entire application off of a dynamic feed structure, but don’t even

Here at Stream, we’re all about exploring the latest trends around popular technologies. Doing so allows our team to better understand what is happening in the open-source community, a community that our company DNA is largely comprised of. Last year, Stream released the open-source project Winds, an aggregated and personalized RSS reader powered by Stream.

Here at Stream, we're helping thousands of companies build and scale their activity feed, chat, and video technology. In this guide, we share best practices to make designing an activity or notification feed with world-class UX easier for you. Remember this: feeds are fun! They're really one of the best UI patterns for sharing and

Introduction We’re covering some “best practice” examples of how to set up a mobile application powered with Stream APIs. We’re happy to announce that after several weeks of development and testing that we have an Android example to share. As with all of our example code, the project is open sourced and available on GitHub.

Introduction As part of our "best practices" series, we wanted to describe our best practices for setting up activity feeds for a simple photo sharing application. These feeds allow users to upload photos, follow other users, like photos, and see notification and aggregated feeds. Of course, how you use Stream depends greatly on the kind

Introduction Many customers have asked our team to provide a “best practices” example of how we’d like to see a mobile application developed to utilize the power of Stream APIs. Since a mobile app would also need a backend API service with which to communicate, we also needed to develop a server-side application which we

Our team has been hard at work to make aggregated feeds easier to use. This blog post will dive into more detail and help you get your aggregated feeds up and running. If you're looking for something more interactive, also check out this 5 minute interactive tutorial. When to Use Aggregated Feeds You should use

Introduction As of late August, 2016, Stream has officially opened a Firehose to its real-time platform, allowing users to listen to all feed changes via Amazon SQS or webhooks. The Firehose is an addition to the existing websocket framework and was put in place to allow for speed improvements in applications where real-time aspects were

With all the excitement around the release of PHP 7 - here at Stream we have decided to give our own PHP a refresher - from our client, example apps, and Laravel framework integration. Learn installing PHP 7, Laravel 5.2, Stream-Laravel, and create an example application.

Getting the user experience right for a newsfeed is quite the challenge. Many apps end up showing completely irrelevant content to their users. Companies like Instagram, Quora, Etsy, Linkedin and Facebook have shown us a few tricks about providing an engaging newsfeed experience. At Stream, we’ve helped thousands of companies with their feeds. Every app

Learn React. Learn Redux. Do it while you create a scalable photo sharing app using services like Mapbox, Algolia, Keen, Stream, imgix, and DigitalOcean.

Did you know that there's a specification for activity streams? That's in it's second version, and handled by the W3C?

A quick how-to for building a notification feed using Stream.

We have released a small example app, which shows you how to integrate GetStream.io with Parse cloud code.

We are excited to announce the first of our GetStream example applications - Python/Django on Heroku.