How to Read Google Plus Posts in Flipboard
I recorded a step by step guide on how to create a group of Google Plus users using Google Reader and then view their posts in the popular Flipboard iPad app. This is made possible by an app on appspot…
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On the Rise of Social Magazine Content Readers and a Comparison Chart
If you’ve been reading my blog over the last year you probably know that I’ve spent quite a bit of time writing and thinking about social content readers. Actually, I’m pretty obsessed with them. I’ve been thinking about this for…
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…
Code and Design Tutorial for Creating a Lifestream
Chris Spooner has written up a very thorough tutorial on how to create a self hosted Lifestream. This tutorial takes you through creating a design for the site as well as the individual feed elements, coding the site using XHTML/CSS,…
New Open Source App AmpliFeeder Brings Beautiful Visualizations for Your Lifestream
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…
Lifestreaming Posts & Pages for June 4th 2008
Blue Whale Labs – The Pervasiveness of Streams – “Managing the raw output of data from RSS feeds, IM conversations, Activity Streams, News Feeds and of course the whole flood of LifeStreams requires adjusting our hope that time can stand…
Why You Should Be Lifestreaming
I’ve provided little nuggets of info sprinkled in many posts regarding my insights as to why I’ve always felt the Lifestreaming concept was great. What I’ve never done though, is provide a post telling others why they should be Lifestreaming…
A Vision of the Web in 2008
Embedding of Flickr notes provided by Mbedr The artwork above was created by Paul Downey aka Flickr user psd. He also wrote a post on his inspiration for the piece here where he discusses his views on each of the…
Lifestreaming Services Need Better Filtering Mechanisms
Finding ways to limit the firehose of information has become a common theme lately. I recently read this interesting post on TechCrunch highlighting the need to filter the noise. Then I read on Mashable about how Twitter can be such…
Lifestreaming News for April 14th
Here’s a collection of relevant Lifestreaming news I’ve recently come across FriendFeed RSS Is a Fantastic Discovery Tool « I’m Not Actually a Geek – Nice post about the benefits of using FriendFeed as a reference tool. He also discusses…