Tutorial for Building a Custom Lifestream Using SimplePie
If you haven’t heard of SimplePie let me tell you that it’s a great PHP library that can be used to do all kinds of things with RSS or Atom feeds. I have used it as a raw library as…
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Newsbites
A Futuristic Look at the Evolution of Lifestreams
Last December Edo Segal wrote a post for TechCrunch titled “The Dawning Of Ambient Streams” on how the evolution of Lifestream technologies will bring about some major changes in our future. He states We will be seeing the first swells…
Ars Technica Provides Storytlr Setup Walk Thru
I’ve been seeing quite a few Storytlr sites pop up now that the code has been released as open source. Ars Technica who like the service and had written about it in the past decided to write a post with…
Woo Themes Releases MyStream WordPress Theme
Woo Themes has added yet another Lifestreaming theme for WordPress to their arsenal. This new one is called MyStream. Here’s a breakdown of its features: A social profiles widgetized zone with custom widgets to display your Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Flickr,…
Flavors.me Rolls Out New Features and Support for More Services
Flavors.me is a new Lifestreaming service launched at the end of last year that I really liked. Yesterday they announced the addition of several new features. They’ve now added support for Foursquare, Posterous, WordPress, Blogger, Etsy, and LinkedIn. They’ve also…
Feedmaze.com Launches Community Based Lifestreaming App on Noserub Open Source Platform
Noserub was one of the first community based, open source Lifestreaming apps released. I first wrote about it back in March of 2008. It seems like I’ve been noticing a quite a few niche based social streaming sites pop up…
Former MyBlogLog Product Manager Details How to Export Your Data
Amidst rumors of a possible shutdown, former MyBlogLog Product Manager Ian Kennedy wrote a helpful post today for users of the service. He provided details outlining ways to both export your data from the service as well as finding alternatives…
Track Your Sleep Cycles with an iPhone
I came across the Lifestream of Acetuk and saw this interesting post with his sleep pattern: A little more sleep but still erratic – Sleep statistics for 13 – 14 Jan (Thu). Went to bed / woke up: 01:34 /…
Sneak Peek at Soon to be Released Social Life WordPress Theme
I saw a tweet from Jason Schuller a few days ago where he announced a new Lifestreaming WordPress theme being released called “Social Life”. He included an image of the theme which I’ve provided below: If Jason’s name seems familiar…
One Man’s Mission to add a Service to His Lifestream
Even in this day and age there are still some web services out there that offer no way of sharing the data created by them from an RSS feed or API. This can be problematic if you want to add…