Lifestream.fm
recently launched into beta, so far I have to
say, this is the best “life streaming” service I have found. However,
it has tough competition with FriendFeed, SocialThing,
and others. Lifestream.fm offers users the ability to aggregate
numerous services such as Del.icio.us, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo,
Pownce, Tumblr, and many others. It also allows you to aggregate
numerous RSS feeds.
The really cool thing about Lifestream.fm is that it is built on the same user-interface as Twitter, which makes it extremely easy to use. You can follow people just like on Twitter and they can do likewise. Users can provide some information about themselves, just as they do on Twitter.
What’s missing? The ability to post directly to any of your networks or on their network alone. FriendFeed allows users too post messages on their site, as well as, replying to your friends Tweets. I am sure something very similar is soon to come from the Lifestream team, I can’t wait to see their progress.
Check out a screen-shot of Lifestream.fm (below).
Editor's Note: With lifestreaming and profile aggregation a hot topic lately coupled with the growing number of social networks, managing all those connections can be a lot of work. This has created a market for lifestreaming sites like sociathing! which I highlighted previous as they demoed at TECH cocktail Boulder. Dustin Mooney, an 18 year old senior in high school, offered his SOMEWHAT FRANK opinion on the new startup called Lifestream.fm as a SOMEWHAT FRANK guest authors. Dustin writes his on blog about news, tech and life called Dustin's Dispatch that is worth checking out.
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I think that Profilactic has the heads up on the social aggregator war going on right now. Not only do they support 170+ feed networks, they have a the ability to add your own feeds from whatever service they don't support by default. I've used the other's and they really don't have near the awesome as Profilactic. I believe they were referred to as "the social aggregator aggregator".
Posted by: Sean | Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 06:43 PM
I also did a post on lifestream.fm. it should be noted that the developer said it should be considered a public beta. every attention it has gained was because of Mark from the lifestreamblog caught it and then it spread to be covered everywhere.
I also like it a lot. i haven't added my Xbox Live account, but it is the first lifestreaming service to dig into the new xbox live api.
Posted by: Avatar | Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 10:51 PM