Lifestream Backup. FriendFeed: I Think I Get It Now. I would say that I'm pretty far behind the curve on 'gettting' this social media tool, but as it's still in private beta, I guess the fact that I'm on it at all makes me still technically ahead of the curve. Of course I refer to FriendFeed, one of the many lifestreaming utilities out there. Now that I've had several months to play around on it and be in the private testing pool, I can say that as of the last few weeks, it's finding it's way more and more into my regular concentric surfing circle. When you say lifestreaming tools, a number of sites come to mind. Twitter might be among them, though it clearly has other applications aside from lifestreaming.
Tumblr is most certainly chief amongst them, though it comes at lifestreaming with a clearly artistic and bloggish approach. FriendFeed, though, is the odd man out, or so it would seem. This opt-in discussion, thus, is seeming to be a much more common theme in the social media/Web 2.0 world. ThisMoment: Photo and Video Micro-Blogging for the Mainstream - If you imagine a mashup of a micro-blogging site with a very pretty photo and video sharing service, with good privacy controls and an innovative user interface thrown in for good measure, you might come up with something akin to thisMoment.
ThisMoment, which is still in private beta, is one of the prettier sites we have reviewed in the recent past. The idea behind thisMoment is that you can upload photos and videos from special moments in your life to the site, which then displays them in a beautiful user interface. The site, however, is flexible enough to also make it a very capable all-purpose photo and video micro-blogging service. Features 'Moments,' as thisMoment calls your updates, appear in a side-scrolling slideshow at the bottom of the screen.
The central element for browsing thisMoment is the timeline, which consists of a series of bars at the top of the page. Geared Towards the Mainstream ThisMoment is clearly geared towards a mainstream audience. Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer - ReadWriteWeb. Lifestreaming, according to Wordspy, is "an online record of a person's daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person's online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.
" In this post we review some of the top lifestreaming web apps: Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms, Soup, Jaiku (the service Google bought), and perhaps the most popular of them all, Tumblr. There's even a niche blog devoted to lifestreaming, called The Lifestream Blog. It recently noted that Wired magazine named lifestreaming a "wired" technology (as opposed to 'tired' or 'expired').
So it seems lifestreaming is the new black. Let's check out some of the leading lifestreaming apps... Tumblr For a recent episode of Read/WriteTalk Sean Ammirati sat down with David Karp, the founder of Tumblr. A variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Read more... Onaswarm Read more... Lifestrea.ms Soup Jaiku.