Dirk Olbertz notified me about a preview to the new version of NoseRub at their blog today. For those of you not familiar with NoseRub it’s basically an open source protocol/application written in PHP/MySQL that allows you to create a distributed social network using open standards like OpenID, RSS and FOAF. It is […]

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I’ve been chatting it up a bit lately with Matt Galligan who is one of the founders of Socialthing! which is a new Lifestreaming service that is currently in private beta. One of their distinguishing features is the ability to use the service as a dashboard to publish to other services. I’ll provide more details […]

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I read over at TechCrunch about a new Lifestreaming service called Iminta that just went into private beta. This one was started by some former Cnet’er. Leaving high profile dotcoms to start Lifestreaming services may be a new trend. If you remember it was a group of former Googlers that started FriendFeed as well.
Iminta first […]

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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 […]

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I came across not just one but two new Lifestreaming services the other day which I think continues the trend that I predicted would make Lifestreaming reach a tipping point in 2007. But I won’t dwell on my Nostradamus like abilities with regards to web predictions…on to the services.
Natuba is currently an invite only service […]

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Here is s a Lifestream plugin written by Chris J Davis for a new blogging platform called Habari (note to self…I need to get me a colophon)
Here’s some tips on how to make a Lifestream useful by Phil Wilson
Steve Jay has provided some tips on creating a Lifestream where he utilizes a tool from The […]

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If you haven’t already heard of Dandelife it’s a self described “Social Biography Network”. The site provides a platform that allows you to tell stories about your life in posts that are tied to the dates that they occurred. They also have leveraged existing sites allowing you to compliment your post with photos (from Flickr) […]

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