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  • Your Checkins are About to Get a Whole Lot Easier with Check.in

    Your Checkins are About to Get a Whole Lot Easier with Check.in

    It all started with a poll create by ReadWriteWeb where they asked people what location based mobile apps people were planning to use at SXSW. I left a comment on that post stating that I wanted a multi-checkin service to which Baratunde Thurston showed his excitement for as well, followed by a comment from Martin [...]

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  • My Thoughts on the Current State of FriendFeed

    My Thoughts on the Current State of FriendFeed

    Image courtesy of Louis Gray Its now been well over 24 hours since the initial shock that FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. I’ve been watching all the reactions originating both by the coverage surrounding the deal as well as the user community on the FriendFeed site itself. It’s been a pretty surreal two days that [...]

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  • Create a Lifestreaming Portal Using UnHub

    Create a Lifestreaming Portal Using UnHub

    This is the first guest post from reader Trae Blain. You can visit his site at traeblain.com. If you are interested in writing a guest post, just head on over to the contact page In a sea of lifestreaming services, UnHub tries to distinguish itself from the other services by offer a simple portal into your [...]

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  • Choose your Lifestreaming Service Carefully. Swurl.com is No More

    Choose your Lifestreaming Service Carefully. Swurl.com is No More

    I found out yesterday that Swurl.com has shut down. Swurl isn’t the first Lifestreaming service to go the way of go dark. They join several others which I update on my Lifestreaming services listing page. But in this case it was a little surprising considering that the service received quite a bit of fanfare when [...]

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  • The Year in Lifestreaming for 2008

    The Year in Lifestreaming for 2008

    2008 has been a tremendous year for Lifestreaming. When I first began researching Lifestraming back in February of 2007 and then started this blog a month after there were only a few scripts available to create a Lifestream and not a single web service dedicated to them. Since then I have found over 50 services [...]

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