Lifestreaming - combining your online activity into a single stream (using trawlr)

ben@slashdotdash.net (Ben) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:07:00 +0000

It’s been a year since I last mentioned trawlr on this blog at which point I promised no further status updates here. Well I’m going to just pretend I didn’t say that for now as I wanted to get some feedback (and usage) on the latest feature I’ve been working on.

Streaming your life away

It’s support for “lifestreaming” – combining your online identity from various different social sites into a single stream. Very much like a diary or timeline of events, grouped by date.

The inspiration for this feature came from a blog post by Jeremy Keith (hence the title) so props to him for the idea.

Lifestreaming is like Twitter, but covers everything you do online that is publicly available and has an RSS feed. Currently there’s support for Delicious, Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming, Last.fm, your own blog feed (RSS) and any other site that provides an RSS feed.

You can see an example of my lifestream in the screen shot. If you already have a trawlr.com account then why not give it a whirl and create your own lifestream. Don’t have an account yet? Registration is quick & simple (with no email activation required) and once you’ve tried out the lifestreaming, you might also be interested in the main RSS reader.

Once you’ve created your lifestream, it’ll be automatically updated throughout the day.

Let me know if you can think of any important sources I’ve missed, such as; YouTube, Picassa, SmugMug, FaceBook, MySpace, Google Reader shared items, Digg (dugg by) and Reddit (activity).

I’m planning to create a “widget” version of the lifestream so that it may be embedded within your own blog or website, allowing customisation of the display

Slash Dot Dash: Lifestreaming - combining your online activity into a single stream (using trawlr)

Lifestreaming - combining your online activity into a single stream (using trawlr)

Streaming your life away