Emily Chang - My Data StreamMy Data Stream:
A few months ago, Jeremy Keith wrote about his experience with this very issue in ”Streaming my life away.” He decided to write a PHP script that would track several RSS feeds (Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, and blog posts) by time-stamp and then display them in chronological order. It doesn’t do any caching but “the important thing is that it’s keeping the context of the permalinks (song, link, photo, or blog post) and displaying them ordered by date and time.” His experience resonated with me. I tried his PHP script but it didn’t quite work on my blog. Jeff Croft also has a similar implementation at his tumblelog, which appears to be down now. current: jeff croft's My lifestream

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Watching the stream* by Jeremy Keith: Of course this idea of mashing up time-stamped (micro)content—usually through RSS—isn’t anything new.

Traffic And Flow by Stowe Boyd: We are sending all sorts of traffic -- different sorts of messages -- flowing through the various implicit and explicit social networks that we define ourselves through, and through which we discover meaning, belonging, and insight. This traffic flow -- made more liquid by RSS and instant messaging style real-time messaging -- is the primary dynamic that I believe we will see in all future social apps. Yes, we will want to have our traffic cached -- for search and analysis purposes -- but we will increasingly move toward a flow model .. hmm.

Taming your own river of news by Grant Robertson on DownloadSquad: Personal aggregation. Melding the content you create into one unified stream which can flow over anyone you want to allow to follow what you're putting out. Although Stowe's points (above) take the idea to another level -- enabling applications to watch and deal with the river automagicly -- Chang's point must come first. Our data generation in the current model is more akin to tributaries of flow, the next step is to unite them into our personal river. Panning and mining that self-generated river for info-gold. This seems like an obvious target right for some rockin' open source app, Wordpress plugin, Yahoo! Pipe jeremy in post linked above talks about & gives his ex of using Pipes to make a lifestream, etc.. but a cursory search says I'm going to have to roll my own if I want to hang with the cool kids. heh, yep. like you also shld have yr own blog domain. Where's the open source content flow aggregation system for the everyman?

My Life Stream by Jack Vinson: Chang is focusing on data streams: stuff she is reading or posting online that as a RSS feed attached to it. But the idea of expanding this to include documents I've created-read-modified on my desktop and my other browsing activity would be the direction to go. The thing that keyed my interest is the link to personal knowledge management. Why? If I am able to see context in which I was operating, I can recreate in my head what was happening and what I was thinking. yep that's what I like. Sometimes it may just be one thing, but other times it takes more memory triggers to remember the setting in which I found a particular item interesting or why I wrote what I did. yep yep. my concern always with "via" = why was I there? (what was the context, my int, why did I care?)

Everyone’s data streams for everything visible everywhere by Ross Dawson: For me, what this suggests is a world in which many people choose to expose all of their activities to the world. Del.icio.us is a great example. People used to favorite websites on their PC. Now many are happy to do it publicly, so other people can look at what they choose to make note of. It seems that many people are thinking about and putting the mechanisms in place to expose all that we do, including our activities in socializing, entertainment, work, and more. Clearly not everyone will choose to expose their activities, yet many will – this has been proven over the last few years.

Lifestreams could help create new personalised discovery engines by Sam Sethi [also linked by adactio: Sam Sethi has been talking about life streams as a rich vein of attention data]

Marketing 2.0 [Practical Blogging: helping bloggers & webmasters increase their income..] by Robyn Tippins: This is fascinating, but even more so is the comments on her post. People from 30Boxes, AIM, etc. are telling how their service does something similar. That’s interesting in that I had no idea there were companies doing this AND in that these companies know that these comments will resonate to a targeted audience that they want to reach.These are likely either 1-regular readers of her feed or 2-regular Techmeme readers (being that the post is now on Techmeme). Either way, they are plugged in enough to know how to mention their company without sounding spammy at all. In fact, they have added their commentary to a blog post that is very relevant to their company. hmm. Impressive on all accounts. Make it someone’s job to follow relevant feeds and comment when appropriate (and only then). If you don’t have someone on your team to do this, hire someone.

IDEA #23 - Your Syndicated Chronological Life [techquilashots.com] by Steve Poland: So who’s going to create this for the rest of us? For the company that launches this business there’s plenty of monetization opportunity.

Lifestream - Could it be the next big thing? by Mark Krynsky: (Update: I have created Lifestreamblog.com as a resource for information moving forward)