Lifestreaming
Encyclopedia
The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman
and David Gelernter
at Yale University
in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream. The tail of your stream contains documents from the past (starting with your electronic birth certificate). Moving away from the tail and toward the present, your stream contains more recent documents --- papers in progress or new electronic mail; other documents (pictures, correspondence, bills, movies, voice mail, software) are stored in between. Moving beyond the present and into the future, the stream contains documents you will need: reminders, calendar items, to-do lists."
Lifestreams are also referred to as social activity streams or social streams.
such as Collectedin, sweetcron and Lifestream, a plugin for the popular blogging and CMS
platform, Wordpress
, adapt Freeman and Gelernter's original concept to address the vast flows of personal information and exchange created by social network service
s such as MySpace
or Facebook
("Web companies large and small are embracing this stream" of providing lifestreaming).
Other online applications have emerged to facilitate a user's lifestream. Posterous
offers a variety of unique features to enhance its basic blogging function. Tumblr
is a similar concept, but with slightly different features.
Lifestreams also represent a source of information about people's intents that can be mined
.
Eric Freeman (writer)
Eric Freeman is a computer scientist, author and constituent of David Gelernter on the Lifestreaming concept.-Authored works:Eric Freeman has publishing accolades for Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML which he co-authored with Elisabeth Freeman, and Head First Design Patterns also co-authored with...
and David Gelernter
David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream. The tail of your stream contains documents from the past (starting with your electronic birth certificate). Moving away from the tail and toward the present, your stream contains more recent documents --- papers in progress or new electronic mail; other documents (pictures, correspondence, bills, movies, voice mail, software) are stored in between. Moving beyond the present and into the future, the stream contains documents you will need: reminders, calendar items, to-do lists."
Lifestreams are also referred to as social activity streams or social streams.
On the web
Social network aggregatorsSocial network aggregation
Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as MySpace or Facebook. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social...
such as Collectedin, sweetcron and Lifestream, a plugin for the popular blogging and CMS
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
platform, Wordpress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
, adapt Freeman and Gelernter's original concept to address the vast flows of personal information and exchange created by social network service
Social network service
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...
s such as MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
or Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
("Web companies large and small are embracing this stream" of providing lifestreaming).
Other online applications have emerged to facilitate a user's lifestream. Posterous
Posterous
Posterous is a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. It is based in San Francisco.Updating to Posterous is similar to other blogging platforms. Posting can be done by logging in to the website's rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging...
offers a variety of unique features to enhance its basic blogging function. Tumblr
Tumblr
Tumblr is a website and microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. The site ranks as the 10th...
is a similar concept, but with slightly different features.
Lifestreams also represent a source of information about people's intents that can be mined
Data mining
Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
.
See also
- Digital traces
- Federated identityFederated identityA federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems....
- Activity streamActivity streamAn activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website. For example, Facebook's News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their...
- The Final Cut (2004 film), a movie about ethical challenges related to lifestreams and editing them
List of Lifestreaming Services
- Catch Mobile lifestreaming service
- Collectedin lifestreaming service with a well constructed microblogging and bookmarking community
- Facebook Social Networking portal
- Twitter SMS-like lifestreaming service
- Orkut Social networking portal
- AIM Lifestream Social Networking portal and aggregator.
- Flavors.me Social media aggregator that includes support for RSS.
- Chi.mp Lifestreaming and personal domain service
- FriendFeed Lifestreaming service
- Google Buzz Lifestreaming service embedded in Gmail
- Tumblr Lifestreaming service
- iminta Lifestreaming service
- SweetcronSweetcronSweetcron is an open source lifestreaming blog software created by Jon "Yongfook" Cockle based on the CodeIgniter framework. It was originally released on 3 September 2008 and the latest version following on 22 September.- Description :...
Self-hosted lifestreaming solution - favit.com Lifestreaming service with RSS reader
- yiid.com personalized lifestreaming service
- Posterous Lifestreaming service
- Alternion Social aggregation service