Tumblr was one of the first Lifestreaming services that gained popularity with it’s minimalist blogging approach with beautifully designed sites. Unfortunately I feel that they took a step backwards when they began limiting sites to only allow for 5 feeds to be imported.

Last year in my coverage I came across a very similar service called Soup.io which I feel offers richer options, support for more services, and great flexibility. If you are a fan of Tumblr, you owe it to yourself to take a look at Soup.io.

Today, Richard MacManus proclaimed it’s currently one of his favorite web services. Andy Desoto who has been writing quite a bit about Lifestreaming lately picked up on the Soup.io mention at RWW today and wrote up a good review.

Here’s a snip:

If you’ve known about this service for quite some time now, feel free to move along; released in the last quarter of 2007, it’s hardly new, especially in the rapid-fire world of Web 2.0 startups.  But if you’ve never heard of it like I hadn’t, read along: soup.io just might be what you’re looking for.

You can read the rest of Andy’s review here.

Vibstars is a Social Networking site based in France that appears to have been built as a platform to share web content with friends. That of course is the a primary goal of Lifestreaming so it makes sense that they add aggregation services to the site.

Vibstars currently support 19 services. If you want to try out Vibstars and add a Lifestream take a look at the blog post describing the addition of the functionality here. It took me a while to figure out you had to click on the “Edit my pages” to be able to access the Lifestream functionality.

I believe the addition of Lifestreaming on Vibstars is part of a growing trend occurring triggered by Facebook opening up their newsfeed (see Facebook’s Lifestream Adds More Services). I think that Facebook’s entrance into the Lifestreaming service game will push the proliferation of it being added to many other sites moving forward.

You can check out my Vibstars page here.

• Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer – ReadWriteWeb – Read Write Web discusses 5 Lifestreaming services. Lifestream Blog gets a nice mention as well
• Life Caching is better then Life Streams – This is a great post from Creeva where he provides some insight into methods of saving the data from your Lifestreams. I wouldn’t state that Life Caching is better, it’s really just extending the ability to save and archive the data created by Lifestreams which I think is extremely important in giving users control and ownership of their data.
• Time Machine + Time Capsule + iLife + .mac = Life Caching – David Beach posts how he feels Apple has provide all the tools for Life Caching
• Get Feeds for Sites Without RSS with Dapper – Lifehackers take on a useful tool to add content that doesn’t offer an RSS feed to your Lifestream
• lifestreaming 101 | serial consign – Reader Greg j. Smith provides a post on Lifestreaming
• Expired-Tired-Wired – Lifestreaming makes the Wired list in the January 2008 issue of Expired-Tired-Wired. This is gonna be the year.
• Slashdot | Social Network Aggregation, Killer App in 2008? – Slashdot on the prediction that Lifestreaming becomes the killer app of 2008
• Edge 70 – Excerpt from David Galernter from his second coming manifesto. A futuristic look into Lifestreaming from the year 2000 which is mentioned starting at point 38
• 0xDECAFBAD accumulator – A custom Lifestream built using Planet Venus RSS aggregator and YUI JS framework from Yahoo