Challenges and Goals Creating an application designed to be a central repository to store and display our life’s collection of personal data is a monumental task. Having to factor in the ability to integrate external and cloud based data sources, that will most likely change over time, in addition to our local data makes it …
Thoughts on Building a Lifetime Personal Data Collection App Read More »
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 …
4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data Read More »
Today I came across an interesting development project called 3D Lifestream created by Nick Selvaggio. Nick is the author of the Lifestream module for Drupal that exposes Lifestream data created by the Activity Stream module and provides an interface for Flash/Flex apps. So Nick took his Lifestream data from Drupal and using his module connected …
Lifestreaming Goes 3D Courtesy of Drupal and Papervision Read More »
Below is video of a presentation from DrupalCamp Dallas in which Randall Knutson provided insight into what Lifestreaming is and then shows how to create one using Drupal. The method Randall uses to create a Lifestream in Drupal is by using the Feed API module. Coincidentally I too have spent a good deal of time recently …
A while back I posted a message on FriendFeed asking if anybody hung out on any IRC channels. Not too surprisingly I got a decent amount of feedback, and many folks still were communicating using that method. The reason I was asking is because I’m a pretty active user on FriendFeed and have made many …
Alan Cheslow notified me last night of a new site project he is working on that he’s deemed a Travelstream. He really piqued my interest and I made my way over to the site right away. He’s created this new site so that he could share his family road trip with his extended family and …
New Travelstreaming Site Offers Great Niche Based Form of Lifestreaming Read More »
I came across an interview with Chris Messina today in which he discusses DiSO (pronounced DeeeeeeSoooooooo) in detail. Along with the primer he goes on to say that he is currently working on the initial implementation to be done via WordPress Plugins. Some initial functions include: OpenID Authentication Use your blog as an OpenID source …
Chris Messina Explains DiSO and Discusses Initial WordPress Integration Read More »
My friend, and creator of Life2front.com Lifestreaming service, Olivier Duprez notified me of new Lifestreaming service myFeed.gr. The site is based in Greece and was created by 2 guys known as Skull & Basilis according to the about page. I went ahead and started creating my account as I have on so many services before …
New Lifestreaming Service myFeed.gr Built Using Drupal Read More »
I recently featured Yongfook’s Lifestream in the first Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery. Several people commented on how they really liked his unique design. Well guess what, pretty soon you will be able to host your own version just like his with the release of his new development project Sweetcron. Visiting the site provides the following …
Interview with Yongfook on Sweetcron Automated Lifestream Blog Software Read More »
You may already know that I am a huge fan of the Drupal content management system. I’ve spent the last year deploying and configuring it for all the websites for The X PRIZE Foundation. It’s an extremely powerful & flexible system to use for running a website. A while back I provided a guest post …
Chris Pirillo Releases New Powerful Lifestreaming Module for Drupal Read More »