Entries Categorized as 'Commentary'

Will 2008 Bring Lifestreaming to the Masses?

Date January 3, 2008

I first started this blog back in March of 2007. I created it shortly after this post on my personal blog where I already felt that Lifestreaming had the right recipe for becoming something big. I was so intrigued by this new concept but as is the case in most early web innovation, the information [...]

Mashable Causes a Lifestreaming Mind Numb

Date July 21, 2007

First off I’ll say that I’m glad to see Lifestreaming continue growing awareness across the web. Unfortunately, due partly to the openness of the concept and plethora of services and methods to create them, confusion is rampant. That appears to be the case after this recent post on Mashable titled “20 Ways To Aggregate Your [...]

Socialstream and Lifestreams Social Needs

Date July 9, 2007

User Tommaso on #Lifestream let me know about an interesting project called Socialstream. It was the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. It was initially planned as a way to improve Orkut which is Google’s home grown social network but it went beyond just [...]

An Insightful Look at One Perspective of a Lifestreaming Future

Date July 2, 2007

I read on a blog by Ian Delaney that about 2 weeks ago there was a round table meeting in the UK with several Yahoo folk which included Bradley Horowitz whom Ian took the liberty of describing his job description as someone whose purpose is “making cool stuff happen”. He goes over the details of [...]

Lifestreaming Takes a Wrong Turn

Date June 20, 2007

A few days ago I was perusing my RSS feeds in Google Reader when I came across this story on Digg called Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!). I knew right away this was related to Lifestreaming and by the headline I felt it was going to be a negative view [...]

Professor Writes Research Paper on Computers Needing to Forget

Date May 10, 2007

Lifestreaming inevitably always seems to prompt concerns of privacy. The basis for creating a Lifestream first begins by either already using or finding a web service that by design already provides anybody the ability to see our activity. Last.fm allows users to find our profile page and see what music we listen to, while [...]