A Lifestreaming Push Client is the Killer App

Interesting idea. Out of interest, how do you think that Jaiku measures up against this? I think the Nokia client pushes feeds items shared through Jaiku out in this way. Could be something Jaiku/Google could explore further?

Like lifestreaming profiles, I’m not sure is usefull to merge our content with our bits of activities. I spend time to research better way…

- Two stream, two feed
and/or
- Two stream, one feed with activities daily-digest

NB: perhaps I will introduce third stream on LiFE-Line for our “status & localisation report” (from Facebook, Yahoo! Live, and Messenger). Need more API from third parties Web services.

Cool idea. I use Twitterific for Twitter and almost never visit the site. I can see how a similar app would be beneficial in a lifestreaming context.

You should run it past someone like Icon Factory (makers of Twitterific) and see if it’s something they could produce (obviously I’ll expect some kind of handling fee here )

I have to think that pulling a Jaiku feed into an AIR application (formatted to look all pretty) would do what you have pictured above.

hey, sometihng similar exists for windows –

http://www.8hands.com/

and i bet their are at least a few others out there or in the works.
need something cross-compatible done in AIR or based on PRISM etc.
not sure of any others. did you search around yet?

sull.outputs.it

Hey Mark,

I’m totally on the same page. We should talk.

-b

With “push” I thought you meant you could as well “push” content from the client into the network i.e. post messages, upload pictures etc.

8hands does indeed seem to do the trick:
http://www.8hands.com/blog/_The_8hands_Video_Tour

@Sull & @Pascal
I’m familiar with and use 8hands but it doesn’t provide the updates in the client the way I have them shown. It also doesn’t seem to support update notifications on some of the services I’ve setup such as Twitter. That said it’s the only application I know that even comes close to this.

@Pascal…yea, I meant “push” from the client application to me the user. There are however a few services that are coming out that do support what you mention.

i’ve never used 8hands since it is windows only. So i dont know how well it performs and what usability issues may exist. But my interpretation of the core proposition here is on push technology. The UI and User Experience can always be conceptualized in different ways. So i cannot speak to that. But regarding push technology, their is a fairly new shift in focus on it so maybe we should shed some light on it here.

Here is what 8hands sais:
“Real time notifications. Forget all those tabs and refresh buttons. 8hands lets you know exactly what is happening on all of your social networks in real time!”

It could be marketing, but it sounds like they are using push technology and not polling every x minutes. 8hands website is all about marketing the product and i cannot find anything technical that explains how it really works.

With that said, here is an interesting javascript related programming language that is capable of pushing content to the client in real-time:

http://www.flapjax-lang.org/

It came out last year but I have not seen much activity around it… unless their are strealthy projects that are using it.

To go back to the early days…. when pushing content actually was a focus (~late nineties), you would look at java related tech… this site has always been around to provide information and tools regarding java based pushlets:

http://www.pushlets.com/

and this is also worth mentioning:

http://getahead.org/dwr/

Googling for puhslets, servlets, server push, reverse ajax, http streaming and other terms should yield you accurate results for research.

sull

forgot to link also to comet programming -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29

As for pushing content, the stuff the guys at Socialthing have been talking about seems really exciting.

Someone else on my post about how people are using FriendFeed also suggested the need for a desktop-style application and I couldn’t agree more. Once someone gets the two-way right from the Web, I think it’ll be a matter of time before someone whips one up. At least I hope so

Hey Mark,

You have something similar on your blogcatalog profile, http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/Krynsky/activity

which is also made portable using the new lifestream widget

Comments are coming out in the next few days.

Tony

I always used the Jabber integration in Twitter — just as good as a native client, but using a program I /already/ have running! No need to run YAN (Yet Another Notifier)

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This is basically what Gwibber (http://launchpad.net/gwibber) does, though it doesn't support FF directly yet.