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” [...]
January 1, 2009
With the success of Twitter, microblogging as a form of communication has exploded in popularity. Several new startups have capitalized on this and given internet users the ability to create their own microblogging communities. Here is a brief look at 4 microblogging platforms that can help you start your own microblogging community today. Personal ShoutEm [...]
November 11, 2008
These days just about everyone around the internet knows about lifestreaming and may even have one of their own. This is due to the great growth and expansion of services like FriendFeed and Socialthing! Previously, MakeUseOf covered the top 5 lifestreaming services. One thing about most lifestreaming services is that they can’t be self-hosted. You might be [...]
August 3, 2008
Who wants to be famous? Oh of course you do. You’d be lying if you said you didn’t stand in front of the mirror when you were younger with the hairbrush as your microphone mouthing the words to Rick Astley or Shaking Stevens. We all have visions of being a pop star or a TV [...]
July 23, 2008
With all the social media sites available to us now, it’s very easy to go into social media overload. There’s no possible way that one can keep up with even 10 sites, let alone the hundreds that are created each month. In order to keep up with the social media phenomenon, there are numerous aggregation [...]
