Archive for February, 2010

  • Did Facebook Just Patent the Activity Stream?

    Did Facebook Just Patent the Activity Stream?

    I came across this post tonight which would lead you to believe so. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Here’s an image from the patent filed: Here’s a snip from the post at All Facebook On Tuesday, Facebook was awarded a major patent for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a [...]

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  • Custom Lifestream Gallery #17

    Custom Lifestream Gallery #17

    This is a series where I highlight some of the unique Lifestream sites that I come across. You can view previous galleries here. If you or someone you know has a unique custom Lifestream, be sure to let me know. Site: Renaud Euvrard Code: Custom (click on Accueil for slideshow version) Site: Tanner Moehle Code: SweetCron Site: Apollo Lemmon Code: Custom Site: Tom [...]

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  • Google Buzz Tries to Put Chocolate in Your Peanut Butter

    Google Buzz Tries to Put Chocolate in Your Peanut Butter

    When I first started this blog in March of ‘07 there were only a handful of custom scripts that allowed you to aggregate your social services. Over the months thereafter a large number of services launched to do this for you. In November of ‘08 I wrote about how Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google were all [...]

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  • Storytlr Founders Announce Ambitious One Social Web Project

    Storytlr Founders Announce Ambitious One Social Web Project

    Today I discovered that Laurent Eschenauer & Alard Weisscher, co-founders of the popular Storytlr Lifestreaming service, have embarked on a very ambitious new project. Storytlr ceased development and was released as open source last December and today we apparently find out why. They’ve now taken on a much larger problem of building a ” free, open, [...]

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  • Tutorial for Building a  Custom Lifestream Using SimplePie

    Tutorial for Building a Custom Lifestream Using SimplePie

    If you haven’t heard of SimplePie let me tell you that it’s a great PHP library that can be used to do all kinds of things with RSS or Atom feeds. I have used it as a raw library as well as the core library for both Wordpress Plugins and Drupal Modules. It’s fairly simple [...]

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