Comments on: My Lifestreaming Apps Wish List

By: Serverskine: Store and Manage Your Server Credentials | SpecialityMoney.com

Serverskine: Store and Manage Your Server Credentials | SpecialityMoney.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:20:54 +0000

[...] been on somewhat of an OS X productivity tools kick lately, with posts on EventBox, Mindnode and Manhour. So I’m going to round out that journey with a quick peek at a useful [...]

By: Serverskine: Store and Manage Your Server Credentials

Serverskine: Store and Manage Your Server Credentials — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:01:46 +0000

[...] been on somewhat of an OS X productivity tools kick lately, with posts on EventBox, Mindnode and Manhour. So I’m going to round out that journey with a quick peek at a useful [...]

By: Nambu: The Shape of Microblogging Consolidation to Come

Nambu: The Shape of Microblogging Consolidation to Come — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:31:46 +0000

[...] the end of last month, fellow WWD writer Imran Ali posted a wish-list for lifestreaming apps, those efficient little consolidation tools which are supposed to help make sense of the social [...]

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:00:47 +0000

@Imran Ali – Thanks. The digest page in feedly is not just about presentation. It actually filters the content of your RSS subscriptions in realtime based on both your own preferences and reading patterns, the reading patterns for the extended feedly community and topical trends derived from twitter and open calais. All this happens transparently under the hood in real-time. But you are correct that it is not social attention it is more centered around content and topics.

By: Imran Ali

Imran Ali — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:11:28 +0000

@Dharm- keep us posted on what you guys have in the pipeline.

@Edwin- I love Feedly, but its fixing a diff problem and Feedly’s literally limited to presentation, not attention management.

@Klaus- Lifestream seems to be the same sorta solution as Skimmer and EventBox…

By: Trae

Trae — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:14:42 +0000

I don’t think you want a lifestream app, but more a socialstream app. Lifestreams tend to aggregate your content into a single stream; a socialstream app would gather the various streams from the various social sites you use and intelligently work through them.

I would agree that I’d like a program that gathers my various social streams and filters out the uneccesary. I think the apps in good position to do this are RSS aggregators. If they could then take your social streams and filter and flow through them, allow for filtering out, combine, etc. That would be spectacular, then all my info would be in one place.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:45:14 +0000

Lifestream (www.lifestream.fm) might be worth a try. I picks up more than 60 sites/services in its feed.

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:55:05 +0000

Hi Imran. I am wondering if you ever had the chance to play with feedly (www.feedly.com). It tries to address some of the issues you are describing (although the angle is around content, sources and topics – social is just used for filtering and sharing). It would be interesting to see how we stack up compared to your expectations.

By: Dharm

Dharm — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:56:01 +0000

You are heard. We are addressing the same challenges u and most netizens are facing about information overload and visualizations problems. Watch out how semantic technology can change the game of information stream processing.

By: Jason T Johnson

Jason T Johnson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:37:29 +0000

I was thinking the very same thing just the other day. Things are getting way too noisy. Your list is right on.

By: What’s on your Lifestreaming app wishlist? | Reinventing Yourself...

What’s on your Lifestreaming app wishlist? | Reinventing Yourself... — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:14:45 +0000

[...] lot, I mean a whole lot, of people would pay for this app. I haven’t seen skimmer yet but I have been experimenting with [...]

By: Imran Ali

Imran Ali — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:36:19 +0000

@Tom that’s a great idea – wanna work on it together?

I actually did start some concept work on a hardware social volume control…think Griffin Powermate :)

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:23:45 +0000

1. You want De-duplication? It’s a great idea and if that worked across idividuals it’d be a meme killer. Genius! I’d happily ignore anyone who used the word “lol” for starters.

2. You want Relevance AND Long Tail? You want your cake and the other thing… I don’t think you can have both (sorry) but you can have much better visualisation or representation.

Great post, now how about having a bash at knocking up a demo screen… I’d love to see it.

By: tobias s buckell

tobias s buckell — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:01:14 +0000

Dowp, forgot to add iPhone. Yeah, desktop/laptop/iPhone, every time I refresh twitter I’m not sure what I’ve seen. My main issue with ‘the cloud’ and ‘web 2.0′ is that I love the mac desktop interfaces to the cloud for stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Mature technologies like email allow for imap so that I can easily work on my iPhone/laptop/desktop regardless, the cloud needs to catch onto this if they want more productive people to enjoy their usage…

By: Imran Ali

Imran Ali — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:34:24 +0000

Great point Tobias – I’m constantly frustrated that my iPhone clients for Twitter don’t ‘mark as read’ items that later show up on my OSX client.

By: tobias s buckell

tobias s buckell — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:32:26 +0000

They’re missing the ability for you to manage your lifestream across different computers (I have a laptop and a desktop). Ability to mark as seen and not repeat twitters on each machine would be dandy.