I was excited with the release of WordPress 3.1 which added the Post Formats feature. This provides the ability to create themes for customized display of content based on new types of content that you create. Sure there were hacks to do this before, but now that it’s supported natively there will be many new …
WordPress Tapestry Theme Using Post Formats Which is Perfect for Lifestreaming Read More »
This is a series where I highlight some of the unique Lifestream sites that I come across. You can view previous galleries here. If you or someone you know has a unique custom Lifestream, be sure to let me know. Site: Gregory Ng Code: Custom Site: Terri Swallow Code: Custom Site: Guillaume B Code: Tumblr …
Image courtesy of Flickr user r9M I’ll start this off by saying that I had high hopes at the beginning of the year for technical advancements in Lifestreaming. I really thought we would see some new innovations from service providers and unique ways of processing data and create better filters to view it. Unfortunately I …
Today provided several serendipitous stories which is what led me to write this post along with its headline. I’ll start with some of my own observations. One of the biggest barriers towards allowing a simpler and more fluid Lifestreaming experience is the lack of open standards. While creating a Lifestream has become a fairly simple …
Progress on the Open Web is Finally Reaching a Tipping Point Read More »
As part of my discovery process for posting to Lifestream Blog, I monitor a large number of outlets looking for interesting items in the world of Lifestreaming. Most of the items I find don’t ever make it onto the blog. A subset of what I find is interesting enough that I usually share it via …
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Puddle is a self hosted lifestreaming script created as a side project from mobile game developer, OrangePascal. Puddle is simple to setup with no need for a database and can get you quickly up and running with it’s easy to use interface. This script—being young—still has a few hurdles to get over, but it’s promising feature-set could lead to an excellent self-hosted lifestreaming solution.
Scott Jarkoff has created a very nice step by step tutorial for how to create your own site to mimic the very popular ones that can be created at Tumblr using WordPress. He provides lots of good detail in his post and the good news is that it’s a pretty simple process. In a nutshell …
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Everyone in the college world is focused on basketball so I thought it would be a good time to tell you about a course on Lifestreaming currently being taught by Dr Thomas Ho at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. You can find the course description and objectives here where you can see that 25% …
First College Course on Lifestreaming Taught at IUPUI Read More »
I wrote a review of new Lifesreaming service entrant Storytlr last October. I was impressed with this service at the time and with today’s announcement of added features continue to thing that this is a great alternative to creating your own self hosted Lifestream. You can get the abilities of running a WordPress blog with …
Storytlr Continues to Impress with a Batch of New Features Read More »
Using Friendfeed as a Lifestream within WordPress – A nice guide providing details just as the title suggests Using CouchDB with Django – Info on creating a Lifestream using Django and a schemaless database using CouchDB Feedalizr Review: Lifestreaming on the Desktop – Review of Air app that supports several services including Twitter, Jaiku, and …