It appears that lately mobile devices are becoming the catalysts for Lifestreaming. Last week I wrote about Nokia’s new Lifestreaming initiatives and today at the Mobilizer conference in San Francisco Motorola unveiled their first Android phone. The phone is called the Motorola Cliq. I’ve read quite a few posts on this new phone as well as watched video of it in action. I also watched the presentation and subsequent Mashable interview of Motorola Co-CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha.

In both the presentation and interview Sanjay focuses on the feed aggregation features of the device. Along with aggregation you can puplish status updates simultaneously across multiple sites all at once. After watching Sanjay in both videos it is clear to me Lifestreaming was designed to be front and center with this phone.

Motoblur is being referred to as a skin in many articles but it actually appears to be a collection of widgets that provide most of the phones features. I also think Motoblur has a service layer as well because in the presentation they discuss that it stores all your social media profiles along with authentication to keep the things fluid and simple. Also if your phone is lost or stolen you can re-authenticate with the service on a new phone.

GDGT live blogged the presentation and provided this Lifestream nugget during their coverage

10:39AM – Oh, sorry, it’s “MOTOBLUR” — OTA sync and backups, constantly updating lifestream. “It syncs contacts, posts, feeds, messages, emails, photos, and more from Facebook, Gmail, MySpace… integrated deep into the corners of the device.”

Photo courtesy of GDGT

I’ve provided 3 videos and several other resources to read more about the Cliq below

Motoroal Cliq Presentation at Mobilizer Conference

Hands-on with the Motorola Cliq

Adam Ostrow Interviews Motorola Co-CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha

Here are more resources available for the Motorola Cliq

• Official Motorola Cliq Press Release
• GigaOM Story on Cliq unveiling
• GigaOM Hands-on with the Cliq
• Mashable coverage of the Cliq
• Gizmodo – Motorola Cliq Gallery and Impressions
• Also…you can follow MotoMobile on Twitter if you’re interested in the Cliq

Nokia continues to be the one mobile company focused on exploiting Lifestreaming both on their devices as well as the web. A few months ago I wrote about their nVine service which was an impressive visual community focused on geo located photos by users.

Nokia is continuing their Lifestreaming push with the release of what they are calling their “Linked Internet UI Concept” which aggregates all of your friends online content into one simple interface. The video shows a phone where friends are displayed by thumbnail photos. When you click on one of your friends you then view their “Life” profile which provides an aggregated view of their activity across multiple communities including Twitter and a photo site. They also go into demonstrating content discovery by navigating from one users content to discover relevant content created by others. A search engine is also demonstrated that returns results from your social graph.

Here’s the video they produced to demonstrate the concept

This is how they describe it:

Linked Internet UI Concept understands the content, and links related content using the same navigation method as the Web. The linkage is based on similarity of the content, such as similar service sources, associated contacts, or assigned tags. For example, photos are linked if they are shared or commented by the same person, or taken in the same location. By leveraging the links between related content items, the concept can help people to discover content that they may not be able to find otherwise.

Linked Internet UI Concept identifies “interesting” content by learning the user’s habits. The users are facing high volumes of online content shared by their contacts on various services and applications. They may find some content is very important, but most of it is not. Linked Internet UI Concept prioritizes the content and highlights the items most likely to be important. It does that by learning the users’ habits over time, and by adapting to provide them with personalized views.

Nokia has created a site to provide more details on this concept and you can read more about it here.

Below is video of a presentation from DrupalCamp Dallas in which Randall Knutson provided insight into what Lifestreaming is and then shows how to create one using Drupal. The method Randall uses to create a Lifestream in Drupal is by using the Feed API module. Coincidentally I too have spent a good deal of time recently implementing this module for the X PRIZE website and also did a quick talk on it at the LA Drupal meeting this month (video should be available in the future).

The video is just shy of an hour and unfortunately the camera is focused on Randall as opposed to the projector which he appears to be using to show much of the process. Still it is worth listening to if you are interested in learning more about Lifestreaming and Drupal.

Randall also created a slide presentation which is available on Google Docs here.

While Feed API is a very powerful and flexible module, there is a simpler alternative for creating a Lifestream using Drupal. Be sure to also look at the Activity Stream Module written by Adam Kalsey which was designed specifically to create a Lifestream. It comes with support for a slew of services out of the box with the ability to create additional ones as well. Below is a screencast that shows how to install, configure, and use the module.