Echo Stream Server
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StreamServer is essentially a highly scalable real-time database. Ratings, Reviews, Comments, Likes, Shares, Page views, Video Plays, New users, New follows, Game plays, leveling up, new purchases and more. All of your activity data can be captured by StreamsServer.
Actually Echo Platform stores not only Items themselves but also the relations between items, some sort of graph database. It goes like this: Item4 Here Item2 is the child of Item1, Item3 and Item4 are children of Item2 and Item5 is the child of Item4. The most common interpretation of the parent-child relation is the "origin item and reply" relation, for the above example it might be the following:
Echo Stream Client The Echo Stream Client is the first, best example of leveraging the Echo Platform to get real-time data and present it in a user friendly and highly customizable way. The Echo Stream Client is Open Sourced and developed using the Echo Application development framework. It can be extended through custom plugins. appkey Specifies the customer application key.
Note: When submitting items to Echo StreamServer it's first important to know how data in the system is organized. StreamServer essentially uses your domain(s) (domains registered by you against your customer account) as a namespace to store data. You can use any path within that domain to store information (www.example.com, www.example.com/givendata). Each item in the system is also identified by a URL and must be targeted AT a URL as its parent.
The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by BBC, Gnip , Google Buzz Gowalla , IBM , MySpace , Opera , Socialcast , Superfeedr , TypePad , Windows Live , YIID , and many others .
In order to make the data from the Echo StreamServer more SEO friendly, you should make a distinction in generating the page content based on the information about the page visitor, i.e. whether a regular user is visiting the page or the page is being indexed by the Search Engine Crawler. Generally the process can be described using the following pseudo-code: The search engine crawlers can be detected by the "user-agent" headers. Here is a simple third-party PHP script which detects whether the page was fetched by the search engine crawler: