Newsbites
I’ve been able to listen in from the edges of the Glue Conference that’s currently taking place through the awesome tweetbytes provided by Kevin Marks. He always does an amazing job when live tweeting from the talks he attends at…
I was excited with the release of WordPress 3.1 which added the Post Formats feature. This provides the ability to create themes for customized display of content based on new types of content that you create. Sure there were hacks…
I came across this post today that lists some vague information about how if you create an account on the AOL Lifestream service with a .Mac or MobileMe account the data may share some stream information. The information is vague…
We can create an enormous amount of data over the course of a year while we are Lifestreaming. On a daily basis this is a simple set of information to track and digest, but some very interesting information could be…
Jay Adelson returned as an alumni to Cranbrook School to give a lecture last Friday. His talk was about Lifestreaming which he referenced several times. He discussed both the values of engaging on online social activities as well as bringing…
I’ve written about Flavors.me in the past, and they continue to improve this great Lifestreaming service. They’ve just announced a slew of new updates that include the following: Support for more services including Formspring, Digg, Tripit, Github, and Soundcloud with…
I read over on TechCrunch today that a new startup called MemoLane out of San Francisco, and created by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, just raised $2 million in funding. Here’s a description of the service from the…
Today Facebook rolled out new functionality that will now feature search results based on your friends liking the resulting content. This applies to content you click the like button on at any external site on the web that has them.…
If you’re not familiar with Joomla, it’s an open source content management system that is similar to Drupal. Extensions are add-ons available for it and I just came across one called Lifestream from Joomlashack that has become available. It currently…
Nice post from Technology Review giving a nice plain English primer of what the Activity Streams open standard is trying to achieve. Hopefully at one point it will provide an easy way to seamlessly create lifestreams and provide unique functionality…