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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The artwork above was created by Paul Downey aka Flickr user psd. He also wrote a post on his inspiration for the piece here where he discusses his views on each of the technologies portrayed in the picture.
After reading it I also came across his unique self-hosted Lifestream here [...]

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This is huge! I just saw this Tweet from Loic Lemeur and couldn’t believe it. I wrote about the killer Lifestreaming app a while back and today it becomes reality.
Here’s a video with info on it:

 
You can read more about it on Loic’s blog here and you can download the pre-release here
If you enjoyed this [...]

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I have recently gotten to a point on Twitter where I’m following so many people I can’t keep up. I feel that Twitter really needs to add a feature allowing us to put followers into groups for filtering. I have local friends, Lifestreaming users, other cool folks I follow, and I can’t keep up with [...]

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I recently wrote about the Lifestream mashup Wally J Punsapy created. Well he’s at it again. This time he’s modified his self hosted Lifestream to use either FriendFeed or MyBlogLog to dynamically generate the page via dropdown menu. He wrote about it here and you can check it out here. The dropdown menu is on [...]

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