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Comment on 'Thinking about Lifestreams' by Dinis Correia

2007-09-04T23:39:45Z

It's also a great way to track your *own* online activity. You dont even need Jaiku or Tumblr. With minimum PHP knowledge and SimplePie RSS parser with can get your own self-hosted lifestream. A few weeks ago I set up mine, using SimplePie: http://diniscorreia.com/stream It's far from perfect, but it's good for now.

Comment on 'Thinking about Lifestreams' by Sérgio Santos

2007-08-30T10:50:31Z

Nice thing you mentioned: each feed has its own pace. The stream should be able to tell the different kinds of feeds. I don't think anyone wants to know each music you listening, just your current favorites, and if you upload an hole photo album, maybe just show a preview.

In that aspect, nothing beets the old custom-made stream, if you got time to spend on it.

Comment on 'Thinking about Lifestreams' by André

2007-08-30T10:17:42Z

Funny you mention this. I read Jeremy Keith's article (http://adactio.com/journal/1202) a couple months ago and felt an urge to do something similar for myself, only a bit fancier. While testing it myself, I realised some feeds got in the way of others... due to their pace. It's easy to have your blog posts lose relevance amidst every last.fm song or ma.gnolia bookmark... also twitter microposts are way faster than actual blog posts... so I felt the need to group some of the sources in daily digests. I intend to tune it up.. it already supports (feed) caching but there's some issues I'm not really happy about it. For some reason, I don't really like tumblr... I want to be able to customize it in every way I can. :) I also plan to release the source so anyone who wants to do this, can host a similar lifestream on their websites. If only I had the time... :)