As part of my discovery process for posting to Lifestream Blog, I monitor a large number of outlets looking for interesting items in the world of Lifestreaming. Most of the items I find don’t ever make it onto the blog. A subset of what I find is interesting enough that I usually share it via …
Thoughts and Plans for Highlighting More Content on Lifestream Blog Read More »
Image courtesy of Louis Gray Its now been well over 24 hours since the initial shock that FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. I’ve been watching all the reactions originating both by the coverage surrounding the deal as well as the user community on the FriendFeed site itself. It’s been a pretty surreal two days …
Over the last few months Twitter (or the technology of micro-blogging) has marched its way to penetrate the mainstream and just like any new web technology that does this, we see a much wider base of users and then come the spammers. Even prior to this phenomenon there was a race to gain followers. Many …
You’ve got a ton of Followers but are they Listening? Read More »
One of the features I’ve always wanted from a Lifestream is a calendar feature. What I’d like to see would be a standard calendar UI to be able to navigate and drill down through a Lifestream. This would offer the ability to easily find dates and ranges that I’d want to look for. This would …
This is a guest post from reader Trae Blain. You can visit his site at traeblain.com. If you are interested in writing a guest post, just head on over to the contact page Lately, with the release of new software and updated web services, I’ve seen a blurring of what defines a lifestream. This is …
Lifestream vs. Socialstream: A Battle of Nomenclature Read More »
Everyone in the college world is focused on basketball so I thought it would be a good time to tell you about a course on Lifestreaming currently being taught by Dr Thomas Ho at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. You can find the course description and objectives here where you can see that 25% …
First College Course on Lifestreaming Taught at IUPUI Read More »
I found out yesterday that Swurl.com has shut down. Swurl isn’t the first Lifestreaming service to go the way of go dark. They join several others which I update on my Lifestreaming services listing page. But in this case it was a little surprising considering that the service received quite a bit of fanfare when …
Choose your Lifestreaming Service Carefully. Swurl.com is No More Read More »
I was recently contacted by Jon Paul Davies about a new open source Lifestreaming app called AmpliFeeder which he’s working on. He’s a longtime reader of the site and was nice enough to provide me with an early look at it. First off it will initially be a downloadable app which you will need to …
New Open Source App AmpliFeeder Brings Beautiful Visualizations for Your Lifestream Read More »
Last year ther conversation had already started on how to tame the social media firehose. There were many discussions from folks about noisy data. We were still in the early statges of adoption so concerns at the time hadn’t really penetrated to too many users. It was mainly those that chose to track a redonkulous …
FriendFeed and Other Lifestreaming Services Need Filtering & Segmentation Read More »
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