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 that’s available here (Update: previous app is no longer available but there’s a new one here. …
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 a long time and last year finally posted my thoughts on the features and functionality …
On the Rise of Social Magazine Content Readers and a Comparison Chart Read More »
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 well as the core library for both WordPress Plugins and Drupal Modules. It’s fairly simple …
Tutorial for Building a Custom Lifestream Using SimplePie Read More »
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, and then using SimplePie to power the importing of all your feeds. He provides images …
Code and Design Tutorial for Creating a Lifestream 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 »
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 still, archived in the ever-overflowing Inbox of unread items” Lifeblog: Mechstreams – when machines start …
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 as well. When I first began covering Lifestreaming, there weren’t any services. In fact there …
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 technologies portrayed in the picture. After reading it I also came across his unique self-hosted …
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 a time sink. Sarah Perez then goes into more detail stating that Real People Don’t …
Lifestreaming Services Need Better Filtering Mechanisms Read More »
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 the phenomenon of subscribing to people which I also heard Leo Laporte discuss recently on …