VizEdu, a site that explains Social Media, Web2.0, Search and Emerging technologies visually, just posted an animation that provides an overview of Lifestreaming. For their example they illustrate FriendFeed’s use as a service and provide Steve Rubel’s Lifestream as an example.

It’s a nice quick overview of Lifestreaming that can be used as a tool for mainstreamers to get a quick idea behind the concept of Lifestreaming.

Here’s the animation

A few weeks ago Common Craft also released an instructional Lifestreaming video. It was created as a promotional tool for new Lifestreaming functionality coming to Windows Live but is also generic enough to provide a useful explanation for others.

Here’s the video

I wrote about Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google’s recent foray into Lifestreaming here.