What is a Lifestream?

In it’s simplest form it’s a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline. It is only limited by the content and sources that you use to define it.

How to Create a Lifestream

1. Start by defining the services you want to use to create your Lifestream. The services listed offer the ability to track our activities such as Delicious (bookmarking), Last.fm (Music we listen to), Flickr (photos we take), or YouTube (videos we create).You may already have accounts on existing sites, or want to create new ones.

2. Determine how you want to create your Lifestream. I recommend starting with one of the many available services and then once you get the hang of it you can add one to your personal site or blog.

I was inspired to create a blog for the Lifestream concept after doing a little research which I wrote about on my blog in February of 2007. Most of the information I found was pretty scattered and there wasn’t a central repository of resources so I thought I should create one. I feel that beyond the self expression of allowing people to track their actions in a passive manner there will be many more exciting technologies that will surface from the backend data aggregation that can occur from people supplying this information.

Why Create a Lifestream?

I provide some insight on a post here and Lea Woodward also provides some great reasons to create one here.