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  • 4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    A common thread I’ve heard by people who use social media services are the concerns of how to access their archived data or what could happen if the service ceased to exist. In the case of photos and videos I personally always have local versions that are usually much higher resolution than the versions I [...]

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  • The Value Proposition and Migration from Lifestream to Likestream

    The Value Proposition and Migration from Lifestream to Likestream

    On Friday I came across this tweet from Brian Frank stating he had switched his Lifestream to a Likestream. Lifestreams normally contain a mashup of both personal content we create as well as content we find interesting that we “like” and share. I found his decision to basically remove his personal content from the equation pretty [...]

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  • Technology Review Giving Activity Streams Some Love

    Technology Review Giving Activity Streams Some Love

    Nice post from Technology Review giving a nice plain English primer of what the Activity Streams open standard is trying to achieve. Hopefully at one point it will provide an easy way to seamlessly create lifestreams and provide unique functionality with the associated data. From the post The standard, known as Activity Streams, aims to solve the [...]

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  • How to Install a SweetCron Like Theme to Your Posterous Site

    How to Install a SweetCron Like Theme to Your Posterous Site

    Posterous has been adding many more themes lately to their service. A few weeks ago I noticed that Drew Olanoff had a sweet looking theme on his Posterous that reminded me of the default theme used by SweetCron. I really like how items are displayed on the home page when using that styled theme so [...]

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  • Federated Social Web Leaders to Gather in Oregon for a Summit

    Federated Social Web Leaders to Gather in Oregon for a Summit

    Status.net has organized a Federated Social Web Summit to occur on July 18th, 2010 in Portland Oregon. Before you get too excited, this is a private and invite-only event for active groups developing code specific to federation of the web. The goal of the summit is for the teams working on initiatives to discuss their [...]

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