Tools, Software, and Services to Create a Lifesream

Here is a list of resources that can be used to create a Lifestream. They are broken down by various categories that can help provide functionality to host on your own site as well as the services available to host them for you.

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Services

– Timeline Based

Quotidian (3D timeline software)
Knight Lab Timeline

– Nameplate Style

About.me | my review

– General

Life2Front | | my page
Overblog | | A blogging platform that can be connected to social accounts for publishing
Rememble
Soup.io | Tumblr-like | my Lifestream
Tumblr | | my Lifestream

WordPress Plugins

Lifestream Plugin for WordPress by David Cramer | |
Profilactic WordPress Plugin by Anish H. Patel
WordPress RSS Stream – by Ricardo Gonzales
SimpleLife for WordPress- by Kieran Delaney
FeedWordpress – by Charles Johnson
Lifestream – WordPress Plugin – by Elliot Back (based on Chris’)
WordPress Plugin – by Chris J Davis

WordPress Themes ($ denotes premium)

Open Source Community Apps

BuddyPress | |
Movable Type – Motion | My Review
Lifepress | Open Source multiuser, multilanguage platform written in Django
Jaiku
Multi-User SweetCron
Magnetism | Software that powered the Mugshot service that is now open source
Noserub open source PHP/MySQL application that allows you to create a distributed social network
One Social Web | Preview

Yahoo Pipes

Lifestream by Eric Ferraiuolo
Digital Inspiration – Merge Multiple RSS Feeds Into One with Yahoo! Pipes + FeedBurner
A better website concept: Lifestreaming interface
Update Maker for Lifestreams – by Kingsley Joseph
Lifestream_v2 – by djiezes
STML Lifestream 1.0
combined-etc-feed – eozten
Yahoo Pipes & Javascript by Gareth Paul Jones

Drupal Modules

Lifestream Module for Drupal by nickgs (inspired by Yongfook)
Activity Stream Module for Drupal by akalsey
Drupal – Read more here

Google Reader

Lifestream using Google Reader’s Bundles by Damian Nolan
Digital Inspiration – How to Put All Your Content in One Place with Google Reader

Other Code and Scripts

MicroStream – A script that utilizes the JSON generated from Yahoo Pipes for display
Jquery Lifestream – Review here
Causal – Open source Lifestream aggregator
Storytlr | |
Pubwich Nice PHP script that creates a nicely designed compartmentalized Lifestream. Review here.
Custom PHP built atop Lifestream WordPress Plugin
Build a Lifestream using Simplepie
Ident Engine – Javascript Library to pull profile data and build Lifestreams | My Post
MyStream – built on ASP.NET 4 | My Post
Amplifeeder – built on ASP.NET | My Post
Jellyroll a Lifestreaming app built on Django
HulloHallo a Lifestreaming application built on top of Codeigniter, a PHP framework
Lifestream Script for Etomite CMS
PHP Script by Johan Nilsson
Motion for Movable Type (my review)
UDStream script build for the Ubuntu Developers Conference
Yahoo Pipes & Javascript – Several methods to look at here, here, and here
ASV_Tumblelog for Textpattern – by Amit
PHP Script – by Jeremy Keith
Feedgrab – Expression Engine Plugin – by Andrew Weaver
Movable Type Action Streams
Custom Script by l.m.orchard
Actionstream by Stephen Paul Weber
Gregarius a web based RSS/RDF/Atom Feed Aggregator (info | example)
Project by Yongfook that is an application using Code Igniter & Tumblr API
LifeSpot is a FriendFeed Javascript by OrangePascal (used to embed in your own blog)
SweetCron – by Yongfook is an open source Lifestream blogging platform | |
SquidCron – fork of SweetCron
Kakuteru – by Dominiek ter Heide is an open source platform powered by many existing services. Read more here
CJD Lifestream for Habari – Lifestreaming plugin written by Chris J Davis for the Habari blogging platform
Gelato CMS – An open source app you can host yourself that offers very similar functionality to Tumblr and offers themes and plugins as well
Xstriim – Lifestream in a single php file. Review here.