The point of having activity feeds is that instead of having to check every blog post for new comments, forum thread for replies, projects for updates, and photo galleries for new images, all of these "actions" will now be sent directly to your activity feed on your Me page. This includes users you are following, your friends, and everything you have contributed to (including updates on blog postings that you have replied to).

This sprang out of an obvious need, but also in the first blog post on this blog, I noticed that I had to keep coming back to the posting to check for new comments.Now new comments show up on my Me page, as well as a snippet of the actual text, updatedinformationabout the blog post itself (total # of comments, blog title, date of action, and accompanying project), and a way to tell one action from another (icons & grey explanations).

Of course I will continue to update the functionality of the activity feeds to support more actions and events, but the overall structure and feel are there. You should even see this entry on the activity feed!

Please post comments and feedback about the activity feed. I will do my best to address everything I hear.

Lastly, just so everybody realizes, I came back from London a week ago and took a couple days off (one to travel, one to get set up back in Cleveland). As with all traveling, I ended up sick immediately afterwards. Well, it turned into the flu, and I am only just now recovered. Development worked stalled a bit, but all I could keep thinking about were which features should I work on as soon as I feel better.

My priority right now is to work on public-facing pages (user profiles, project discovery, user discovery, the Home page, your Me page, etc.) but I continue on the Collaboration features.