Going into day one of SXSW Interactive, a tech conference in Austin Texas, the New York Times published a story on how the spotlight this year would be on hardware. The story went on to discuss several devices to make…
2012 was a year where I began covering some broader areas. While I continue to follow services that do social aggregation as well as services that leverage social data, I continue to focus quite a bit more on personal data…
On the heels of the recent Microsoft patent filing for Lifestreaming comes the announcement from a company called OMG Life of a new Lifestreaming wearable camera. What is a lifestreaming wearable camera you ask? Well it’s a camera that you…
Last week through an Engadget post I learned of a Microsoft patent filing for ‘life streaming’. The filing describes ‘life streaming as: A system and method for analyzing, summarizing, and transmitting life experiences captured using a life recorder is described.…
I recently tested out a new service in private beta called Vizify. The concept is fairly simple, connect your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts and it will generate an interactive bio infographic based on the imported data. But after…
In this month’s Wired there’s an interview with Will Wright that chronicles his rise as a video gaming icon. The story covers how his interest began, and covers all the way through to where he is today. It’s a nice…
I’ve been witnessing a pretty interesting phenomenon as of late. There is a very similar progression to how the evolution of Quantified Self technologies are going when compared to Lifestreaming. When I first started covering Lifestreaming the first phase began…
In my current quest to collect more personal data around my activities to draw knowledge and information with the aim of achieving a better quantified self I’ve kept a lookout for apps and devices to help me. We’re currently about to…
It was 5 years ago today that I created Lifestream Blog. It all stemmed from the fact that I became intrigued with the ability to find a way to aggregate content I created across social services into a single location.…
Today’s news uncovered by Arun Thampi that Path has been uploading users entire address book to their servers does not bode well for them. You can read coverage around this issue on ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, and Venture Beat. But none of…