The out of the box activity feed of SharePoint can be extended with custom activities. These activities will then also show up in the My Newsfeed on the My Site.
http://weshackett.com/2011/06/extending-the-activity-feed-with-enterprise-content/
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This is the website of Thomas Maeder with a blog about Intranet, Digital Workplace, Digital Communication & Social Collaboration topics.
The out of the box activity feed of SharePoint can be extended with custom activities. These activities will then also show up in the My Newsfeed on the My Site.
http://weshackett.com/2011/06/extending-the-activity-feed-with-enterprise-content/
MVP Yaroslav Pentsarskyy shows how to customize the SharePoint blog template and use it in a more microblogging similar manner.
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=438