Jaiku and Lifestreaming

Stuff I Did, Stuff Someone Else Did

I’m still wading through my redesign of Daily Guilt, and one of the things I’ve been working on building is a “lifestream,” a feed of all of the content I’ve posted online. The chronological list would show new Flickr photos, Twitters, BlogHUD posts from Second Life, and so on.

A while back, I signed up for Jaiku, which looked to be a Twitter-like service that also aggregates the user’s content. I wasn’t impressed at the time, but after reading some blog posts from other “lifestreamers,” I’m getting more and more excited about the possibilities. Even better, one of the co-founders of the company, Petteri Koponen, just answered one of my questions minutes after I posted it in my Jaiku feed. Wow!

I’ll be playing around with Jaiku more in the next week or so, and look for it to be added to my newly-redesigned site, um, someday.

posted by Melanie on 04.17.07 @ 3:54 pm |

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Melanie, I love the concept of lifestreaming. It really conveys one of the great advantages of Jaiku. I recently started working with them on the PR side and your comments excited me.

By Neil Vineberg on 04.17.07 8:23 pm

I think Jaiku’s big selling point is not really its Twitter-like features, but its ability to aggregate content. I’ve got a few gripes, but I have to say, that quick response from Petteri Koponen really boosted my confidence in the service.

By Melanie on 04.17.07 9:17 pm

Hi, Melanie!

i am thinking I should Hire You to Design My Biz Web Site! You seem to know What You Are Doing!

xoxo,
TDR

By The Daily Randi on 04.20.07 8:58 pm

Randi, anytime you wanna talk web stuff, let me know!

By Melanie on 04.20.07 9:34 pm

Hi Melaine,

I’ve been trying to build my own lifestream page for a few days, using the code provided by Jeremy Keith (http://adactio.com/journal/1202/).

Today I stumpled upon your Jaiku lifestream-like page. It’s a very nice improvement from Jaiku and, honestly, this is where they should keep their focus.

I still think I’m going to build my page instead of using Jaiku, but for a second there, it made me hesitate.

Cheers.

By Dinis on 04.29.07 5:34 am

Dinis, I’ve considered using Jeremy Keith’s code, and I may end up doing that, but for now it just seems like a lot of work. Let me know how it goes!

By Melanie on 04.30.07 12:40 pm

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