Yesterday I wrote about Swurl but today found a great new feature I hadn’t seen during my original testing of the service. I had added my Last.fm account but it hadn’t imported my “loved” tracks yet. Today when I revisited I was very surprised to find what it does when importing your tracks.
Here’s an example […]

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Update: Apparently I’m blind and need to pay more attention as you will see after reading the first comment. In any case, I still think this tip is useful for people. This has now been downgraded from a hack to a tip.
So how often do you upload a photo to Flickr or bookmark something on […]

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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, […]

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I stumbled on (no pun intended) this custom designed Lifestream by Jon Phillips.
From the site:
It took me a little less than a day to come up with the design (mock-up in Fireworks), slice it, code it and validate everything. My goal was to create a minimalist 1 page design that would display my latest social […]

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A while back Loic Le Meur wrote a post discussing how his social map is decentralized. He also urged others to create their own social maps. Several folks have since created them using wildly different visual ways to interpret and display them using a variety of tools.

Loic used pen and paper for his original version
Stowe Boyd created […]

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Twitterlocal.net is a site that lets you find local Twitter users based on proximity to a given location. They got mentioned quite a bit on Twitter today due to a newly created leader board that shows a breakdown of locations with the most tweets over the last 24 hours. The way it works is you […]

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It’s great that there are so many services out there for Lifestreaming, but I also envision a future where I can query and view my data using local tools in a more flexible manner outside the cloud.
I have written about various methods that can be used for archiving or caching our […]

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I read about FriendFeed’s new search functionality on their blog today. Then while roaming around my friends page I found this item from FriendFeed developer Sanjeev Singh. I then left a comment stating that adding an RSS feed for the search results on a specific term would add a nice touch and be very useful […]

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I just saw this message posted by Scoble to Dave Winer on Twitter

So I decided to check and see if the current format used to get RSS Feeds for all user data would also work to specifically get Comments & Likes for users. As you can see below, it sure enough did. Looks like I […]

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You got a Lifestream and you wanna let people know what movies you’ve watched lately? It’s easy to do if you have a Netflix account. Just visit the Netflix site and make sure you are logged in. Now that you are on the home page and logged in you need to find […]

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