Entries Categorized as 'News'

Lifestream.fm Relaunches with New Features and Adobe Air App

Date July 3, 2008

I wrote about Lifestream.fm a while back. This new service came on the scene and very quickly got purchased. Well it’s now been 2 months since the acquisition and they have been working on a new version and it has just been released.
Here’s a list of new features:

Support for 56 services 
Comments - You can now […]

Top 30 FriendFeed Users Based on Google Ranking

Date June 27, 2008

I came across an amusing post by Glenn Slaven (author of the great FriendFeed Comments Wordpress Plugin) where he had discovered that 2 FriendFeed users (Deepak & Kevin,) appeared in Google’s search results as more relevant than the about page. He mentions some other interesting ranks after clicking on the more results.
I decided to take […]

Display Your Twitter Friends on a World Map

Date June 27, 2008

Today I started thinking about how cool it would be if I could see the locations of my Twitter friends on a Map. After spending some time Googling for such a tool I was only able to find one, and interestingly enough it only became available a few days ago.
I came across this post by […]

Examining the Evolution of Lifestreaming Into Lifeportals

Date June 26, 2008

This is the first guest post from reader Terri Ann. I wrote about her custom Lifestream previously here. You can visit her blog at blog.ninedays.org and don’t forget to check out her lifestream. If you are interested in writing a guest post, just head on over to my contact page
The other day on css tricks.com, […]

My Interview on Lifestreaming for the New York Press

Date June 25, 2008

I was contacted by Gina Pace of the New York Press for a story they were writing on Lifestreaming. I spent about 40 minutes with her on the phone where I spent a good deal of time explaining the concept from its early beginnings to where it is now and where I thought it was […]

Lifestreaming Posts & Pages for June 4th 2008

Date June 4, 2008

Blue Whale Labs - The Pervasiveness of Streams  - “Managing the raw output of data from RSS feeds, IM conversations, Activity Streams, News Feeds and of course the whole flood of LifeStreams requires adjusting our hope that time can stand still, archived in the ever-overflowing Inbox of unread items”
Lifeblog: Mechstreams - when machines start lifestreaming […]

Chris Messina Explains DiSO and Discusses Initial Wordpress Integration

Date June 3, 2008

I came across an interview with Chris Messina today in which he discusses DiSO (pronounced DeeeeeeSoooooooo) in detail. Along with the primer he goes on to say that he is currently working on the initial implementation to be done via Wordpress Plugins.
Some initial functions include:

OpenID Authentication
Use your blog as an OpenID source
Discover friends services advertised […]

Lifestream.fm Reaches Out to Users Regarding Community Functionality

Date May 29, 2008

 
I read Jodi’s post over on the Lifestream.fm blog where she is asking it’s users whether or not to add community functionality to the site.
Here’s a snip:
So, while we’re working on the UI and more features, I am especially interested in the aspect of community…So should there be a community or should the communities stay […]

Social Network Vibstars adds Lifestreaming Features

Date May 28, 2008

Vibstars is a Social Networking site based in France that appears to have been built as a platform to share web content with friends. That of course is the a primary goal of Lifestreaming so it makes sense that they add aggregation services to the site.

Vibstars currently support 19 services. If you want to try […]

Strands.com to Relaunch as a Lifestreaming Service

Date May 28, 2008

I just read on Gigaom.com that Strands.com currently has a new Lifestreaming service in private beta.
Here’s a snip:
The company hopes to take the lifestreaming features offered by Web 2.0 darling FriendFeed a step further by adding the ability to build a “taste profile” based on your social media usage patterns.
You can read the whole story […]

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