It all started with a poll create by ReadWriteWeb where they asked people what location based mobile apps people were planning to use at SXSW. I left a comment on that post stating that I wanted a multi-checkin service to which Baratunde Thurston showed his excitement for as well, followed by a comment from Martin …
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Image courtesy of Louis Gray Its now been well over 24 hours since the initial shock that FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. I’ve been watching all the reactions originating both by the coverage surrounding the deal as well as the user community on the FriendFeed site itself. It’s been a pretty surreal two days …
This is the first 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 In a sea of lifestreaming services, UnHub tries to distinguish itself from the other services by offer a simple portal into …
I found out yesterday that Swurl.com has shut down. Swurl isn’t the first Lifestreaming service to go the way of go dark. They join several others which I update on my Lifestreaming services listing page. But in this case it was a little surprising considering that the service received quite a bit of fanfare when …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
I came across this photo today while visiting this page at Somewhatfrank.com (photo courtesy of Frank Gruber) The photo was taken at the Future of Web Apps (better known as #FOWA on Twitter) Conference. It was at a panel discussion where the basic premise for the group was to be tasked with coming up with …
Today I read about Delver over at TechCrunch. At first glance it appears a bit like services from Spock or Wink that allow you to claim your identity. But after reading a bit more, you can also claim your identity across all of your social networks as well which will then provide relevant searches based …
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