Wordpress 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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  • Lifestreaming Statistics Module for SweetCron Built Using Google Charts

    Lifestreaming Statistics Module for SweetCron Built Using Google Charts

    I’ve always thought there could be some interesting analysis that could be gleaned from the content we publish to our Lifestreams. This is definitely a market that hasn’t been successfully tapped just yet. FriendFeed used to provide a graph that showed your personal breakdown of items by service as well as those from the people that [...]

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  • How to add a Customized Lifestream on Wordpress with Simplepie

    How to add a Customized Lifestream on Wordpress with Simplepie

    I read this post over at MakeUseOf.com titled “How To Create Your Own Lifestream On A Wordpress Blog In 3 Easy Steps”. This is a good tutorial and utilizes the very popular Simplepie RSS framework which I’ve written about many times that has been used to create custom Lifestreams. However I wouldn’t call this exactly [...]

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  • Segregate your Lifestream with the Aggregator Theme for Wordpress

    Segregate your Lifestream with the Aggregator Theme for Wordpress

    I have seen several themes that take a slightly different approach to Lifestreaming where instead of simply providing a reverse chronological output of all the items from your stream, they segregate the output. I quite like this approach because many times if you post infrequently to some services they get lost quickly, never to be [...]

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  • Custom PHP Lifestream Script Built Atop Wordpress Plugin

    Custom PHP Lifestream Script Built Atop Wordpress Plugin

    Mark Philpot spent quite a bit of time testing several different Lifestreaming apps including Sweetcron, Kakuteru, and a few other custom scripts. He ended up being fairly happy with the Lifestream plugin for Wordpress but wanted to create a more customizable view. So he decided to write some custom PHP code to do just [...]

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