Abstract: The claimed subject matter decreases duplicate entries and loops in an activity record. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion includes a predetermined number of characters at a beginning of the entry. Additionally, the predetermined number of characters is based on a likelihood of duplicates in the activity record. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter decreases duplicate entries and loops in an activity record. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion includes a predetermined number of characters at a beginning of the entry. Additionally, the predetermined number of characters is based on a likelihood of duplicates in the activity record. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method for decreasing duplicate entries and loops in an activity record such as on a user's page on a social networking site. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Abstract: Described is a notifications platform that routes notifications to endpoints of recipients, corresponding to email, instant messaging, text messaging, telephones, social networks, blogs and/or the like. A publisher of a notification designates the recipients, while preference data of each recipient determines whether that publisher is able to send to that recipient, and if so, to which endpoints. The notification may be modified via one or more templates to be appropriate for a locale of the recipient, as well as appropriately formatted for the endpoint, which may also be locale-specific.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method for decreasing duplicate entries and loops in an activity record such as on a user's page on a social networking site. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.

Abstract: A provisioning service datacenter provides a key transfer from a web service datacenter over a first secure channel. In certain versions, the provisioning service datacenter transmits an email having a hashed link to a partner site in response to a key request provided by the partner site. Certain roles at the partner site can respond to the email, thereby returning the hashed link to the provisioning service datacenter. Thereupon, in certain versions, the request is forwarded to a web service datacenter, and a secure channel is provided over which a key can be forwarded to the provisioning service datacenter, and thereupon to the partner site. In certain versions, the key is used to establish a second secure channel.