October 14, 2011
For most of us, the amount of digital content we produce is staggering – Twitter, personal blogs, professional blogs – but bringing all of that in to one central place is a real challenge. Having recently purchased my own vanity domain of jamesbruce.me to act as a central hub for my articles and web content, the task fell upon me to find a suitable way to aggregate it all – commonly called a life stream.
May 30, 2011
Webdoc is a new social platform that is something of a chameleon. It can be seen as a simplified blogging platform, in the vein of Tumblr, a media rich social network, or it can even be used as a journaling or lifestreaming service.
February 1, 2011
Gone are the days when people would write fancy diaries, documenting their lives for a lucky finder to explore. Or are they? In fact, with the rise of social networks and microblogging, sharing your life has become something of a trend. Now writing a diary seems like a time intensive project that takes a lot [...]
January 6, 2011
Have you ever wanted to browse through all of your online activities by date? Do you think a calendar-style lifestream would be awesome? Well, that’s what we’ve got for you today. Memolane is the newest incarnation of a lifestream, which displays your online life in a most promising way. It basically takes all of your [...]
January 4, 2011
Did you lose a little faith in the cloud when you heard about Delicious shutting down (even though they say it will be sold now)? Do you use multiple services online to organise and express yourself? Do you need a backup of those things just in case? Well, I’m about to let you in on [...]
December 14, 2010
In the digital world, the difference between a journal, a diary, and a blog is fuzzy. A blog is meant to be shared with those around you. An online or offline journal is more personal. You can of course, remove the padlock and share it with the world but I guess most would like to [...]
March 2, 2010
I recently wrote an article about how to share your own lifestream on your own blog called How To Create Your Own Lifestream On A WordPress Blog In 3 Easy Steps. We saw how easy it really is to stream all of your online content into one place. Bakari also recently wrote an article about Flavors.me [...]
February 25, 2010
Most of us have heard of lifestreaming before. Some refer to it has a logging of your entire life online (maybe in a blog or YouTube or something similar). You can also use the word lifestreaming to refer to a stream containing all of your online activity. For instance, you may have content on a [...]
December 2, 2009
A lot of your online time is probably spent divided between publishing and sharing content on a variety of websites, from Flickr to YouTube. There are a few options that allow you to aggregate all of that content into a lifestream, such as FriendFeed, or for the more adventurous, there’s the self-hosted Sweetcron. But a [...]
September 20, 2009
We have looked at 5 Social Aggregators on MakeUseOf and also looked at hosting your own lifestream using Sweetcron. Lifestreaming is getting increasingly popular these days, because we feel the need to consolidate all our footprints that we leave scattered all over the web. Some people still shy away from it because the word “Lifestreaming” [...]
