members to a channel with the ability to include channel feeds and bots to that channel application_number US 201615006042 A description the platform described in this invention defines a unity of apps solution with the following technology principles fig1 a d 1 data hub or public switched messaging network for apps all apps and things are easily pluggable to a common data hub or public switched messaging network this is what provides system integration with user apps and things users are able to authenticate applications and things to privately and securely connect to the system and then engage them transparently as data sources or provide access control to them to other users for example this allows users to push content of their facebook page to an app share their location feed as a delivery driver give a neighbor access to smart home controls while on vacation or enable others to save content to a dropbox folder 2 interconnected apps all apps created in this ecosystem as well as those plugged in to the data hub can talk to each other in other words content of any app can be routed to any other app or provide command signals to that app to do something or utilize a service for example a user can build an application that controls the philips hue.