lifestreaming Archive

  • 4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    A common thread I’ve heard by people who use social media services are the concerns of how to access their archived data or what could happen if the service ceased to exist. In the case of photos and videos I personally always have local versions that are usually much higher resolution than the versions I [...]

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  • The Value Proposition and Migration from Lifestream to Likestream

    The Value Proposition and Migration from Lifestream to Likestream

    On Friday I came across this tweet from Brian Frank stating he had switched his Lifestream to a Likestream. Lifestreams normally contain a mashup of both personal content we create as well as content we find interesting that we “like” and share. I found his decision to basically remove his personal content from the equation pretty [...]

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  • How to Install a SweetCron Like Theme to Your Posterous Site

    How to Install a SweetCron Like Theme to Your Posterous Site

    Posterous has been adding many more themes lately to their service. A few weeks ago I noticed that Drew Olanoff had a sweet looking theme on his Posterous that reminded me of the default theme used by SweetCron. I really like how items are displayed on the home page when using that styled theme so [...]

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  • We Need an Open and Federated Social Network. Even Facebook’s Paul Buchheit Said So.

    We Need an Open and Federated Social Network. Even Facebook’s Paul Buchheit Said So.

    I’ve been somewhat following the whole Facebook privacy debacle over the last few weeks with some interest. The very passioned outcry I’ve seen from so many is something I didn’t expect. I agree that any social network that offer layers of both public and private sharing needs to adhere to some basic principles. They need [...]

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  • 5 Good Examples for Managing Your Lifestreaming Data Flow

    5 Good Examples for Managing Your Lifestreaming Data Flow

    One of the more difficult aspects of creating a Lifestream is devising how to manage the flow of data. For me there are many factors that determine this process and it’s like a very complex decision tree depending on the source of data (microblog, photo, video) the publishing mechanism (mobile, desktop computer) and the destination [...]

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