Meta-identity content, ok then Lifestreams
So what do you call it when you splice content from various feeds from all the web 2.0 services you publish content in:
Personal Content Management or Personal Content Stream
Profile Management
Identity Management or Identity Stream…even Meta-identity
Personal Data Stream
Life Stream
To make it even more confusing some of these services are even within a social network itself.
And there are even RSS remixing services that are more general and not focused just on personal RSS feeds (although you can use them for this purpose)
The structure of the content may even affect the name of this thing we are talking about, content can be a mixed stream, but it can also be widgets on a page, or even a cloud.
The Lifestream Blog is focused on this very activity, there’s even a post about defining this personal collective site.
The Lifestream blog has even started a list of Lifestreaming services…I’m going to clone this list adding some more related type services.
Lifestream
Tumblr (review, blog posts, reblog from other Tumblr’s)
Ziki (blog posts, people tags)
Dandelife (blog posts)
profileomat (formerly LinkMyBox)
ProfileFly (blog links, review)
Profilactic (blog posts, review)
Wink (blog posts)
profil.es [ADDED 31/07/07]
readr [ADDED: 03/09/07]
Streamy (review) [ADDED: 12/09/07]
intuuch (review) [ADDED: 24/09/07]
Plaxo Pulse (review) [ADDED: 08/10/07]
FriendFeed (review) [ADDED: 08/10/07]
meecard (review) [ADDED: 14/11/07]
Onaswarm [ADDED: 05/12/07]
Lifestrea.ms (review) [ADDED: 08/12/07]
Clickstream
RSS Widget Page
RSS Remix Page
Bozpages (also widget and cloud)
afeeda (see above)
Top 10 Sources (also clip and blog)
NOTE: There are plenty of RSS remixers that don’t host a public page for you, but then again you could use a re-syndicating service to convert your RSS to HTML (such as a blog).
DIY - Planet Planet and more.
Nearly, Sort of, kinda
Spock (review and more, people tags)
Comwat (blog links)
OtherEgo (review, view all your sites in iframes via tabs)
MyLifeBrand (view all your sites in iframes via tabs, also add friends from other sites)
ShowYourself (review, just a widget)
Pidy (just a widget, see also Internet Address Book)…now a lifestream.
findmeon (widget)
mevu - just a widget (review) [ADDED 8/10/07]
digFoot - social network directory and profile aggregator (review) [ADDED 24/01/08]
Plugin
See the Lifestream blog.
Friendstream
Dandelife (see above)
8hands (see above)
iceflake (see above)
iStalkr (see above)
Wink (see above)
correlate.us (see above)
Mugshot (see above)
Profilactic (see above)
Blueswarm (see above)
readr (see above)
intuuch (see above)
Plaxo Pulse (see above)
FriendFeed (see above)
External Friendstream
Tabber (see above)
Blueswarm (see above)
Friend Feed (see above)
NOTE: MyLifeBrand (see above), Fidg’t, ProfileLinker (review, people tags), Loopster, UpScoop (review) search profiles whether people have registered or not, but they don’t stream the content, it’s just bookmarks of your friends and the social networks they belong to, basically a contact list.
People Search
Ziki (see above)
Spock (see above)
Lijit (see above)
As you can see this market is crowded already…
Related:
Vertical Search and Personal Network Clouds or is it all just attention
[ADDED 1/06/07: Second Brain and a lifestream plugin]
[ADDED 05/07/07: Lifestream comparison chart]
[ADDED 11/07/07: Socialstream and Lifestreams Social Needs]
[ADDED 22/07/07: Group lifestreams with Ziki Groups]
[ADDED 22/07/07: Friendstreams]
[ADDED 22/07/07: Lifestream Groups]
[ADDED 14/11/07: Ziki is still my favourite lifestream network]
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These are great services John. Also consider that a lifestream is actually part of your Attention Data and a number of the services you mentioned are members of the APML workgroup and will soon support APML.
Comment by Chris Saad — May 2, 2007 @ 3:47 am
Chris,
That’s true, that’s why I included Clutzr and lifestream.
Maybe a lifestream has different branches
- stuff you publish/collect/comment
- your activity attention (that is how much you use these above services) and secondly other stuff like surfing habits
I see a lifestream as content I publish, comment and collect…I guess this displays basically what I pay attention to…if I blog, comment and bookmark it, this means this is what I pay attention to.
Another element is more about stats (attention trends or stats), how long and often do I spend on these sites.
Back to the attention stream…
so stuff I publish, comment, and collect is my attention/lifestream, this is very refined, but accurate.
You could add websites surfing as another attention element, but then again sites I surf may not mean I like them, I paid attention to a site and surfed to it to find out I did not like it.
Then you can make it social or a more round attention file by throwing in my RSS Reader OPML into the mix.
What are your thoughts Chris?
And as Alex Barnett ended up saying was, fine to collect attention, but where can we plug in and play.
I’d like to go to any repository of information and interrogate it with my attention file?
eg. go to a journal database, newspaper archive, bookmark service, video (like YouTube), etc…and plug in my attention file and wait for it to return me stuff I like…your results could be returned in a topic cluster cloud.
Sometimes you don’t want to have to use a search query, when all you want to do at a site is plug in and discover stuff you like.
Comment by Johnt — May 2, 2007 @ 6:20 am
John this is exactly the dream of APML. With more and more of these services providing APML export and tools like Particls allowing APML Import, we can achieve the result you described.
Together we are building the Attention Economy where the user is in control!
Comment by Chris Saad — May 2, 2007 @ 8:02 am
Good stuff, John.
Chris - good to see you here too. Viva APML and lifestreams!
Thrive,
K
Comment by Kelly — May 5, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
Johnt, I’m fully agree what you said bellow :
Maybe a lifestream has different branches
- stuff you publish/collect/comment
- your activity attention (that is how much you use these above services) and secondly other stuff like surfing habits
I hardly works to include 2 lifestream in one for LifeLine profiling… My way is :
- Main stream for our published content (while several month) ; blog, photos, favorites (with comment), videos, comments, etc.
- Tiny “Activities” stream (while last week only) with micro-blog, listen music, used app, favorites or votes (without comment), visited websites, etc.
I study how I could display tiny “Activities” stream into lifeline’s shoutbox (on top)… And include it into main stream feed as daily-digest-report.
Comment by Olivier ze kat — July 12, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
8hands update
http://mashable.com/2007/08/11/8hands-upgrade/
Comment by Johnt — September 3, 2007 @ 4:19 am
Great collection of links John.
Spelling correction: “Cluztr” not “Clutzr”
I personally wouldn’t classify Cluztr under “Nearly, Sort of, kinda”, since clickstream is a major element of one’s lifestream (or meta-id). I think it deserves far higher billing given easy of entry and comprehensiveness of the attention profile you can create. Cluztr also fully supports APML and is working to further its development as a standard.
Perhaps it would be better to classify such services under “Ways to create a Lifestream”…
Just some thoughts.
Comment by Jon — October 8, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
Hi Jon,
Thanks for dropping by…I have made a new heading “Clickstream”
Comment by Johnt — October 8, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
Hi all,
I would like to suggest another web based RSS tool, which is a feed directory and a very easy-to-use RSS mixer / RSS merger :
Swiv RSS mixer
Many thanks for this list.
Comment by Tilt — November 5, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Hi John
I wonder if you could add our online address book to your list above. We are a bit of a mash up but essentially we enable people to be found and contacted via a Google search and via our message gateway system - so people don’t have to reveal their contact details and the people messaging them don’t have to register. Not rocket science but fairly unique.
The service also enables people to show what networks they are on and any contact details they want to display. Our free people search engine searches social media, social networking and the general web to provide catagorised and filtered results for people.
Comment by ben leefield — February 5, 2009 @ 9:23 pm