photo by soapylovedeb I just returned from SXSW and had a really good time. There’s been some negative feedback from the event this year which I feel revolves mainly around the parties. I’ll cover that in a wrap-up post later but that’s not what I wanted to talk about here. It’s amazing to think that …
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. AOL has recently rolled out changes to their popular AIM instant messaging service. Utilizing the skills and knowledge from their acquisition of …
AOL’s Lifestreaming Initiative Evolves with New AIM Beta Release Read More »
Today AOL owned Bebo social networking service released their initial implementation of Lifestreaming features to the service. This functionality was brought in after AOL’s purchase of Lifestreaming service SocialThing and I’m sure also based on features created for their buddyupdates service. Several sites have covered the news portion of the annoncement (links below) but I’m …
Taking New Lifestreaming Features from Bebo Out for a Spin Read More »
2008 has been a tremendous year for Lifestreaming. When I first began researching Lifestraming back in February of 2007 and then started this blog a month after there were only a few scripts available to create a Lifestream and not a single web service dedicated to them. Since then I have found over 50 services …
It was October of last year when I wrote about a Wired story talking about Plaxo Pulse that generated some of the first rumblings of Lifestreaming entering into the mainstream. Then in January I asked if 2008 would bring Lifestreaming to the masses. Clearly it had now become “Wired” which is a little scary as that sometimes means that …
Major Developments Continue to Bring Lifestreaming to the Mainstream Read More »
On the heels of a slew of new features with their recent 2.0 update, Socialthing has recently released some more. Added new services Brightkite, Plurk, Seesmic, and Guitar Hero Added several new shortcuts Visual color queues for new items in the Lifestream Visual icons detailing the types of account activity available for each service and publishing …
SocialThing Version 2.0 Adds Features and Services Read More »
I have recently gotten to a point on Twitter where I’m following so many people I can’t keep up. I feel that Twitter really needs to add a feature allowing us to put followers into groups for filtering. I have local friends, Lifestreaming users, other cool folks I follow, and I can’t keep up with …
Using Crowdstatus to Follow the People Behind Lifestreaming Services Read More »
Up until now I’ve watched this battle rage from afar, shaking my head as I read most of the posts and comments that fueled it. The only reason these two services are being compared is because they are both Lifestreaming services that hit the limelight at the same time. The fact is that these are …
Stop the FriendFeed vs. SocialThing Madness They’re Different Read More »
I’ve been chatting it up a bit lately with Matt Galligan who is one of the founders of Socialthing! which is a new Lifestreaming service that is currently in private beta. One of their distinguishing features is the ability to use the service as a dashboard to publish to other services. I’ll provide more details …
Socialthing to Bring Lifestreaming to Your iPhone Read More »