A method and system for generating contextual activity streams are provided. The method comprises receiving unstructured data collected by an agent operable on a client node from a plurality of data sources, wherein the collected unstructured data is of a user of the client node; analyzing the collected unstructured data to identify at least one tag in the collected unstructured data; determining a context of the collected unstructured data based in part on the at least one identified tag; creating a contextual activity stream; inserting contextual data items gathered from a plurality of social networks into the created contextual activity stream, wherein the contextual data items are data items shared by connections of the user and have a substantially similar context to the determined context; and causing a display of contextual data items in the contextual activity stream over the client node.