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Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Tifa Miller — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:56:50 -0000

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Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Geoffrey Tuck — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:07:15 -0000

Gonna have to give this a try, thanks for the script and info.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

gareth — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:37:17 -0000

Another great aps. the more I find the greater my online addiction becomes. Help.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

jujuk suwandono — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:18:44 -0000

i like this

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Yves — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:32:02 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Patrickometry — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:38:15 -0000

Mark, Oh I see. I hadn't thought about the Google Juice angle. Hmmmmmm.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:49:41 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Patrickometry — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:30:24 -0000

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. :)

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:51:05 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Willem Kossen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:48:13 -0000

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?

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Aaron Newton — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:39:46 -0000

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

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:17:14 -0000

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!

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Annet — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:11:49 -0000

Tnx for info
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Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Aaron Newton — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:26:21 -0000

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

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:17:20 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:11:13 -0000

Ha! How to. Post updated. :-p

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

ak — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:47:09 -0000

Mark,

HOT TO or HOW TO?

Re: HOW TO: Use Your Blog’s Domain as a Lifestream

JR — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:26:17 -0000

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.