I've been doing my own custom lifestream using yahoo pipes for a while. Pipes standardizes a lot of the RSS feeds from the usual places, and allows for time zone fixing and other minor data manipulation. I grab that every hour and store new things somewhere (currently in a database), so I can provide date based browsing of past entries. Of course, the tumultuous nature of Yahoo's services lately has me wondering if this is a great approach.
There's also a fairly popular app called Sweetcron that's pretty advanced and easy to use.
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 12 months ago
Yahoo Pipes is an essential part of the lifestreaming I have going on at rizzn.com, but I find the main problem with pipes is the incredible lagtime. Changes sometimes take the better part of a day to show up in the RSS feeds, and occasionally they disappear altogether.
I think it's a great tool to prototype things with, but a lousy production tool.
ak
· 12 months ago
Mark,
HOT TO or HOW TO?
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 12 months ago
Ha! How to. Post updated. :-p
Aaron Newton
· 12 months ago
In the words of the fellow from Monty Python - We're not dead yet! Iminta is still going strong and doing fine. We still have nearly as many features as FriendFeed. They have a nicely documented API (we have one, it's just not easy to find) and the support more services (we only add services when our users ask for them so as not to clutter the signup process - there are hundreds of sites out there we could add, but we only do it when there's demand for it), but for the most part, our service still goes toe to toe with FriendFeed's offering.
Aaron @ Iminta
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 12 months ago
Indeed, Aaron - and I didn't mean to imply you guys were dead - but the emails from you that told me how quickly you developed the latest feature that FriendFeed had have tapered off this year. Seems like you've been carving out a bit of your own community more recently rather than going after FriendFeed's.
In that vein, keep it up!
Aaron Newton
· 12 months ago
Well, to be frank, it just seemed that competing with FriendFeed on feature development doesn't seem to be very ... interesting. They support nearly 60 services. We can add 100 services tomorrow and that doesn't make it something worth emailing you guys to point out. We have a blog widget, they have a blog widget. Just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's going to excite Mashable.
Lately most of our work has been focused on performance and efficiency (for instance, working on logic to limit how much we hammer the APIs of others). That kind of stuff is never sexy, though it greatly improves the usefulness and reliability of our service.
We have been quietly working on our own community and our own strategy on how to reach a larger one. Maybe we'll have a good scoop for you in a month or so. If it's useful to you, I'll start sending you updates on what we're up to.
Aaron
Annet
· 12 months ago
Tnx for info * Stereogrammes, Cross Eye 3D, Illusions, 3D Illusions, Optical Illusions, Magic Eye http://stereogrammes.org/
Willem Kossen
· 12 months ago
Well, I've been keeping a LifestreamLog at my lifestreamer site build simply with Wordpress and the Lifestream plugin. It's here: Lifestreamer.nl Pretty simple to get that going and full control on my own server.
I'm still thinking to reinstall this on wordpress-MU to allow others to do the same. Would that be interesting? Would people -say- pay a dollar a month for it?
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 12 months ago
Perhaps so. I like php and asp scripts for this sort of thing better because I enjoy the full degree of control you get with that, but a lot of non-developers would probably better enjoy working in a framework like WordPress that they know better.
Patrickometry
· 12 months ago
I do like having my lifestream in my blog sidebar. I've had little problem with FriendFeed's widget; I've been able to customize its CSS so it fits right in. The one aspect which I decided to turn off were comments. Whenever a comment displayed in the widget it didn't wrap around; instead, since the sidebar has overflow set to hidden, the comment just abruptly ended/disappeared. Otherwise, I really like that it imports and provides thumbnails of photos and videos that streams in. :)
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 12 months ago
The only problem with this (and again, not a problem for most people) is that a javascript provides no Google juice.
It's amazing, once you install lifestreaming of any kind on your personal domain, how much your search engine traffic increases.
Patrickometry
· 12 months ago
Mark, Oh I see. I hadn't thought about the Google Juice angle. Hmmmmmm.
Yves
· 12 months ago
I've done a similar job with Movable Type and its Action Streams Plugin on my blog. Unfortunately archiving of Action Streams items isn't possible and comments. So I am planning to build my own aggregation engine based on SimplePie an RSS aggregator for PHP.
Benjamin Wiederkehr
· 12 months ago
If your a Wordpress user I would recommend having a look at the awsome Lifestream plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/). It supports a ton of feeds and displays them nicely everywhere you want.
jujuk suwandono
· 11 months ago
i like this
gareth
· 9 months ago
Another great aps. the more I find the greater my online addiction becomes. Help.
Geoffrey Tuck
· 9 months ago
Gonna have to give this a try, thanks for the script and info.
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There's also a fairly popular app called Sweetcron that's pretty advanced and easy to use.
I think it's a great tool to prototype things with, but a lousy production tool.
HOT TO or HOW TO?
Aaron @ Iminta
In that vein, keep it up!
Lately most of our work has been focused on performance and efficiency (for instance, working on logic to limit how much we hammer the APIs of others). That kind of stuff is never sexy, though it greatly improves the usefulness and reliability of our service.
We have been quietly working on our own community and our own strategy on how to reach a larger one. Maybe we'll have a good scoop for you in a month or so. If it's useful to you, I'll start sending you updates on what we're up to.
Aaron
*
Stereogrammes, Cross Eye 3D, Illusions, 3D Illusions, Optical Illusions, Magic Eye
http://stereogrammes.org/
I'm still thinking to reinstall this on wordpress-MU to allow others to do the same. Would that be interesting? Would people -say- pay a dollar a month for it?
It's amazing, once you install lifestreaming of any kind on your personal domain, how much your search engine traffic increases.