I read this post over at MakeUseOf.com titled “How To Create Your Own Lifestream On A WordPress Blog In 3 Easy Steps”. This is a good tutorial and utilizes the very popular Simplepie RSS framework which I’ve written about many times that has been used to create custom Lifestreams. However I wouldn’t call this exactly …
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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 …
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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 …
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So late last year I decided it was time for a site re-design. The blog turns 3 years 2 years old in March and I thought it was time so I spent the last month or so working on it. I started the process looking for a base WordPress theme I could use. This took a …
Last year we saw the release of SimpleLife. It was a Lifestreaming plugin for WordPress based off of Simplepie. Today I came across the blog of Thomas Trumble who has recently spent time editing the original plugin to add some additional features. Here’s a List: Addition of 6 extra feeds for a total of 9 …
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It’s great that there are so many services out there for Lifestreaming, but I also envision a future where I can query and view my data using local tools in a more flexible manner outside the cloud. I have written about various methods that can be used for archiving or caching our Lifestream data. Most …
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Lifestream Posts & Pages for February 29th 2008 through March 3rd 2008: Positive Interference | everwas – Post from MyBlogLog Product Manager Ian Kennedy about Lifestreaming services hosting comments around content pulled in from 3rd party services Creating an online identity on Squidoo – Dr. Thomas Ho provides a How To on creating your online …
A new version of the RSS Stream WordPress Plugin from Ricardo Gonazles was released. This new version allows for the addition of multiple generic feeds. Keep in mind that this plugin requires PHP version 5 so if you are on a hosted server you need to verify the version that your site is running on. …
I recently got word from Kieran Delaney about his new Lifestreaming plugin for WordPress called Simplelife. It’s based on the Simplepie RSS parser instead of the built-in MagpieRSS one that has issues and is used by some of the other WordPress Lifestreaming plugins out there. It’s currently an Alpha version and although I haven’t tried …
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Jackie Plage wrote me a few days back to let me know about a new custom script that her friend Steffen Larsen had written that utilized SimplePie to create a Lifestream. Jackie’s post provide the details to this and you can see her Lifestream using the script here. There aren’t many scripts out there to …
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