I stumbled on (no pun intended) this custom designed Lifestream by Jon Phillips.

From the site:

It took me a little less than a day to come up with the design (mock-up in Fireworks), slice it, code it and validate everything. My goal was to create a minimalist 1 page design that would display my latest social media activity and tweets.

The result is a very unique looking Lifestream and you he provided a guide on the steps he took to create. You can read about it here & you can visit his Lifestream here.

My friend, and creator of Life2front.com Lifestreaming service, Olivier Duprez notified me of new Lifestreaming service myFeed.gr. The site is based in Greece and was created by 2 guys known as Skull & Basilis according to the about page.

I went ahead and started creating my account as I have on so many services before it but quickly started getting a very familiar feeling with the interface. You see I am very familiar with the Drupal CMS as part of my day job for the X PRIZE Foundation and I saw some very familiar telltale signs of the CMS within their user interface. Just to make sure though, I pulled out some of my ninja skills (ok, I just tested a few /node/* urls in the site path) and I was able to deduce that this surely was a site built on Drupal. I’m also pretty sure that they are using the Activity Stream module which you may remember I mentioned a while back that was sponsored by Chris Pirillo

The site appears to be using a large amount of the core Drupal codebase but these guys have definitely put a good deal of effort into some customizations. Overall I’m pretty impressed with what they have been able to accomplish with Drupal. The flexibility of the platform never ceases to amaze me.

myFeed.gr offers support for 35 services already with the ability to add your own feeds. They also have support for placing users in groups, exporting your Lifestream in an RSS feed, and widget support.

While the site is pretty functional there are still some rough edges that need to be smoothed out. I came across some errors, some of the navigation can be cumbersome, and there is no simple way to  find other users on the site. So it’s not really yet ready for prime time,  but I have to applaud their effort and they are a definitely a service to keep your eye on.

 

I read Jodi’s post over on the Lifestream.fm blog where she is asking it’s users whether or not to add community functionality to the site.

Here’s a snip:

So, while we’re working on the UI and more features, I am especially interested in the aspect of community…So should there be a community or should the communities stay on their respective services?

This is a tough question that any Lifestreaming service must currently face and there is no easy answer as to what they should do. FriendFeed has become the most popular service and it’s arguably due specifically to its Community functionality. It’s very tempting to emulate that aspect and other services have to take notice.

Yesterday I mentioned Strands who will be focusing on taking the data from user Lifestreams and building a recommendation engine based on it.  Service aggregation is the base of a Lifestreaming service and it’s clear that the base functionality alone isn’t going to get you very far in the next phase of these services. Lifestreaming services need to bring something new to the table to define their own niche to differentiate themselves from the pack.

So go let Jodi know whether they should add Community functionality by visiting her post here

Vibstars is a Social Networking site based in France that appears to have been built as a platform to share web content with friends. That of course is the a primary goal of Lifestreaming so it makes sense that they add aggregation services to the site.

Vibstars currently support 19 services. If you want to try out Vibstars and add a Lifestream take a look at the blog post describing the addition of the functionality here. It took me a while to figure out you had to click on the “Edit my pages” to be able to access the Lifestream functionality.

I believe the addition of Lifestreaming on Vibstars is part of a growing trend occurring triggered by Facebook opening up their newsfeed (see Facebook’s Lifestream Adds More Services). I think that Facebook’s entrance into the Lifestreaming service game will push the proliferation of it being added to many other sites moving forward.

You can check out my Vibstars page here.

I just read on Gigaom.com that Strands.com currently has a new Lifestreaming service in private beta.

Here’s a snip:

The company hopes to take the lifestreaming features offered by Web 2.0 darling FriendFeed a step further by adding the ability to build a “taste profile” based on your social media usage patterns.

You can read the whole story here.

It appears that one of the focuses for them is to offer a filtering algorithm for the data in the stream. I am starting to see more of this lately and see this as the next phase in Lifestreaming. I’m looking forward to checking out the service as soon as I can somehow finagle an invite.

UPDATE: You can read more about the service on their blog post here