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Lifestrea.ms Blog

Mirror your Life online with Lifestream Aggregation, an Open Social Network, Identity 2.0, Microformats and OpenID


Where’s the Real Value of Lifestreaming?April 2 2008

I have followed the recent hype around lifestreaming and especially friendfeed.com and socialthing.com with a lot of interest, but pretty quiet, biting my lips to stop myself from giving any comments. I didn’t feel like it was my task to educate people about what’s lacking from these massively promoted apps.

Well, it didn’t take long for people to realize that the benefit of bringing together every activity from your friends on the web in one place turns into a completely overwhelming information overload after the first excitement is over.

Steve Rubel already stated a while ago:

We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are capable as humans of managing. The demands for our attention are becoming so great, and the problem so widespread, that it will cause people to crash and curtail these drains. Human attention does not obey Moore’s Law.

Caroline McCarthy on CNET puts it even more rude:

Technology blogs have been chirping enthusiastically about “lifestreaming” services like FriendFeed and Socialthing, which claim to provide an answer to growing complaints about “social-networking fatigue.”
But taking overkill an

Meet lifestrea.ms on the RoadJanuary 20 2008

Social Graph Foo (Friends of O‘Reilly) Camp
Sebastopol / California / USA / Feb 1-3 2008

SIME Innovation Day 2008
representing lifestrea.ms as an innovation award nominee
Stockholm / Sweden / Feb 7 2008

Ecomm 2008 Conference „Talk Lifestreaming“
Computer History Museum / Silicon Valley / USA / Mar 14-16 2008

2nd European Identity Conference „User Centric Mastermind Panel“
Deutsches Museum / Munich / Germany / Apr 22-25 2008

If you would like to meet Thomas Huhn (founder of lifestrea.ms) at one of these events, just send an email to thomas \ AT \ lifestrea.ms






lifestrea.ms Feedback CollectorJanuary 3 2008

Today I was asked from one of our beta users where he could leave his feedback. I thought it was a good idea to make this feedback available not only internally to the beta community, but also externally, because there might be people interested in the topic that haven’t received an invitation code yet.

So, this is your thread, give us your comments, your feedback, your feature wishlist and whatever you like. To prevent spam, comments are moderated, so please be patient after posting your thoughts.

hCard Import with lifestrea.ms Profile PagesDecember 5 2007

lifestrea.ms followed the vision of a portable social network from the beginning on. To accomplish this goal we have been integrating technologies to enable this portability, like XFN, hCards and OpenID.

Anyway the number of sites and applications that make use of this data is still restricted. Today we came over the german site wevent.org, which is a social event calendar utility, similar to the well known upcoming.org (but much more beautiful :) ).

If you register with wevent.org, you have - like with every new social network - the problem that you have to take your friends there to make most out of this application. The good message is that wevent has an hCard import which works very well with lifestrea.ms.

According to Dennis Bloete, one of the founders of wevent,  they check pages for hCards and try to match fullnames and nicknames with what’s in their database. As most people use the same nick all the time this works pretty well.

Give it a try and please tell us if you know other sites with hCard or XFN import. We are more than happy to have them listed here!

Press Roundup for lifestrea.msDecember 4 2007

We’ve received a lot of press coverage during the first days after our beta launch, which I wouldn’t dare to hold back :) .

Please have a look at the following articles to get an impression how and what the first beta testers see in lifestrea.ms. If you’ve blogged about lifestrea.ms and you are not on the list, just drop us a note.

As a personal remark: If you’re stuck with some functionality inside of lifestrea.ms the awesome in depth review of Michael Pick and Robin Good on MasterNewMedia is a perfect FAQ!